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Blackstone HS-320

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Blackstone HS-320

Product Code: SATE-adwtasfsa-3179

15.6 Inch Touch Screen, Delivery from 2 to 4000 ml, Twelve Invasive and Six Non-Invasive Modes, with Weaning Measurements Built In

The Blackstone HS-320 is a turbine-driven ventilator with a 15.6-inch resistive touch screen. It delivers 2 to 4000 mL across adult, paediatric, and neonatal patients; offers twelve invasive and six non-invasive modes; includes a humidifier; and provides weaning measurements, including P0.1, NIF, and intrinsic PEEP, with waveform and loop displays. Available through Medigear.uk.

Sections

ICU Ventilators

Categories

Surgical & Therapeutic Equipment

Condition

New

Origin

China

Seller Type

Certified Professional Seller

CE & ISO Certified

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Supplier: Medigear

This turbine-driven ventilator is the first Blackstone machine that could work in an intensive care unit rather than alongside one. A turbine generates its own flow. The machine needs no piped compressed air and runs on an oxygen supply alone. Delivery starts at 2 ml, which covers a premature infant, and reaches 4000 at the other end. Both other Blackstone ventilators start at 50 ml, and neither offers non-invasive ventilation.

The mode list shows the difference most. Twelve invasive modes include PRVC, targeting a set volume at the lowest pressure that achieves it. They also include APRV, which a unit uses when conventional ventilation fails in severe respiratory distress. Six non-invasive modes include nasal CPAP, the standard support for a newborn breathing on its own. Neither PRVC nor APRV appears elsewhere in this catalogue.

The weaning measurements deserve as much attention. P0.1 measures respiratory drive in the first tenth of a second of an occluded breath. NIF measures how hard a patient can pull on the circuit. Intrinsic PEEP measures pressure trapped in the chest by incomplete emptying. In obstructive disease, the ventilator never shows this pressure as a setting. With inspiratory and expiratory hold alongside, those are the measurements a unit uses to decide whether a patient is ready to come off. Yet this turbine-driven ventilator publishes no PEEP range, no rate range and no alarm specification.

That is a strange set of omissions on a machine of this capability. Medigear.uk obtains all three before offering it.

On a turbine-driven ventilator, the turbine is what makes the rest possible. A ventilator driven by compressed gas needs piped air or a compressor to work against, and a turbine-driven ventilator makes its own flow and generally responds faster to a patient's effort than a gas-driven machine can. Non-invasive ventilation depends on that responsiveness. A mask leaks, and the machine has to keep up with a patient breathing against it. Twelve invasive modes and six non-invasive ones follow from having a turbine, rather than being bolted onto a simpler machine.

Delivery from 2 ml is the other structural difference. A one-kilogram premature infant ventilated at five millilitres per kilogram needs five millilitres, and a machine floored at 50 cannot approach that. Combined with nasal CPAP, that places the ventilator inside a neonatal unit rather than merely claiming paediatric suitability, though how accurately 2 ml is delivered rests on compensation the sheet never quantifies.

What has not been published is where attention should go. A machine offering APRV plainly needs PEEP well above the 10 centimetres of water its siblings top out at, yet no PEEP range appears on this sheet at all. No oxygen concentration range appears either, where the HS-700B publishes 21 to 100 per cent. And no alarms are described anywhere, on a third Blackstone ventilator in succession, which by now looks like a pattern rather than an oversight.

Medigear.uk establishes the PEEP range, the oxygen range, and the alarm set before this turbine-driven ventilator reaches a unit.

Turbine Rather Than Compressed Gas

The machine creates its own flow, so it needs only oxygen, and it responds faster to patient effort than a gas-driven ventilator generally does.

Delivery From Two Millilitres

A 2 ml floor genuinely covers premature infants, where both other Blackstone ventilators start at 50 and the best anaesthesia machine at 10.

Non-Invasive Ventilation Included

Six non-invasive modes, including nIPPV, where a patient can be supported without intubation, which neither sibling offered.

PRAPRV Both Provided

Volume targeted at the lowest achieving pressure, and a mode for lungs that conventional ventilation is failing, neither of which appears elsewhere here.

A Proper Weaning Suite

P0.1, NIF and intrinsic PEEP, with inspiratory and expiratory hold, are the measurements a unit uses to judge readiness rather than guess at it.

Loops as Well as Waveforms

Pressure-volume, volume-flow, and pressure-flow loops show changing compliance and resistance, which numbers alone do not reveal.

Humidifier Fitted

Included rather than sourced separately, which matters because dry gas damages the airway during a prolairway duringtion.

Touch That Works Gloved

A resistive panel responds to pressure, so a gloved clinician can operate it, whereas a capacitive screen would ignore the same hand.

Screen of 15.6 inches

TFT with a resistive touch layer.

Turbine Driven

Generating its own flow from an oxygen supply.

Delivery of 2 to 4000 ml

The widest band across the Blackstone range.

Adult Through to Neonate

Every patient group Blackstone names.

Twelve Invasive Modes

Including PRVC, APRV, DualVent and volume support.

Six Non-Invasive Modes

With nasal CPAP and PSV spontaneous or timed.

P0.1, NIF and Intrinsic PEEP

Weaning measurements taken at the machine.

Inspiratory and Expiratory Hold

For plateau pressure and trapped pressure.

Nebuliser and Oxygen Suction

Among the special functions listed.

Three Waveforms, Three Loops

Pressure-volume, volume-flow and pressure-flow.

Humidifier Included

Fitted rather than ordered separately.

No PEEP Range Published

Absent from a sheet that offers APRV.

This turbine-driven ventilator is the only Blackstone machine meant for an intensive care unit, and the specification says so in several places. A turbine generates its own flow, delivering from 2 ml to 4000; it offers twelve invasive and six non-invasive modes, including PRVC and APRV, nasal CPAP for a newborn, and a weaning suite of P0.1, NIF, and intrinsic PEEP, with the hold manoeuvres that produce them. Loops as well as waveforms, a humidifier, and a touchscreen; a gloved hand can work. Against that stands a peculiar set of omissions. No PEEP range appears at all on a machine offering APRV, and that is the figure a unit checks first. No oxygen concentration range either, where the simpler HS-700B publishes one. And no alarm specification, for the third Blackstone ventilator running. Medigear.uk obtains all three before quoting this turbine-driven ventilator.

FAQ

Frequently Asked Questions

Everything buyers need to know about sourcing medical equipment through MediGear.

The machine generates its own flow rather than working against piped compressed air, so it only needs to supply oxygen. A turbine also responds faster to patient effort, which non-invasive ventilation needs, since a leaking mask requires the machine to keep up.

Delivery starts at 2 ml, which covers a one-kilogram infant at five millilitres per kilogram. Nasal CPAP is provided too. How accurate the delivery is at that volume depends on how the circuit is compensated, and no figure is published, so we obtain one first.

Airway pressure release ventilation holds the lung at a high pressure for most of the cycle with brief releases, and a unit reaches for it where conventional ventilation is failing in severe respiratory distress. No other Blackstone machine in this catalogue lists it.

Respiratory drive, inspiratory muscle strength and trapped pressure, respectively. Together, they show how a unit judges whether a patient can breathe unsupported, and intrinsic PEEP in particular reveals gas trapping that the ventilator does not display as a setting.

Because in obstructive disease a breath arrives before the last one has fully left, and the pressure that accumulates is not the PEEP the clinician set. Measuring it shows what the lung is actually holding rather than what the machine was asked to deliver.

No, and on this machine that is the omission to pursue. A ventilator offering APRV and neonatal delivery plainly works well above the ten centimetres of water its siblings reach. Still, the sheet gives no figure, so we obtain one before anything else.

Capnography and pulse oximetry, both offered as Chinese modules. Several other Blackstone products offer a Masimo or Nellcor alternative, and this sheet does not, so we need to ask Blackstone directly whether a branded module can be fitted to this machine.

The PEEP range, oxygen concentration range, respiratory rate, inspiratory ratio, pressure limits, alarm settings, branded module availability, battery provision, turbine service life, circuit consumables, size and mass, the governing standard, and conformity marking.