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Covidien and GE Healthcare Form Five-Year Collaboration

Bringing Covidien measurement technologies to GE Healthcare patient monitoring helps enhance clinical decision-making

and GE Healthcare are embarking on a five-year, global collaboration to incorporate Covidien measurement technologies into GE Healthcare patient monitors.

"GE Healthcare is committed to making a broad range of parameter measurements available on our powerful monitoring technology, including GE's own SpO2 technology," said Matthias Weber, general manager, monitoring solutions at GE Healthcare. "Leveraging our 100-year history of designing life-critical devices, we are focused on delivering innovative clinical measurement technology.

"Such advances have the potential to support improved care, quality, and patient safety."

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"The advanced parameter portfolio from Covidien, coupled with GE Healthcare's patient monitors, supports clinicians in detecting subtle but critical variations in a patient's status," said Robert J. White, president of Covidien Respiratory and Monitoring Solutions. "By delivering the full picture of a patient's physiological status, patient safety and positive outcomes can be advanced."

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Some of the new technology the companies' partnership will enable include:

  • Nellcor pulse oximetry with OxiMax Technology: This is a cardiac-based pulse oximetry platform, which accurately monitors patients at all acuity levels and in challenging conditions.
  • INVOS Cerebral/Somatic Oximetry: This monitors site-specific oxygen levels to optimize end-organ perfusion and help protect against devastating major organ morbidity and neurological injury.
  • BIS Brain Monitoring: This measures the effects of anesthetics and sedatives on the brain.


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