ICU Management & Practice, ICU Volume 8 - Issue 2 - Summer 2008
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ECRI Institute is pleased to provide readers of ICU Management with sample information on BasicPerformance Anaesthesia Units from its HealthcareProduct Comparison System (HPCS), which containsover 280 reports. The HPCS reports contain extensiveinformation about the technology, its purpose, its principlesof operation, stage of development specificationsand reported problems. The Basic PerformanceAnaesthesia Units comparison charts include ECRIInstitute’s ‘Recommended Specifications’ (generictemplates) which can be used for comparison and tenderingpurposes. The comparative tables overleaf areextracted from ECRI’s 2005 database and have additionallybeen reviewed and updated by the respectivemanufacturers.
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