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Blackstone HS-A01

Product Code: SATE-AAAME-3162

Single Glass Flowmeter Tube to 5 L/min, One PA-1 Vaporiser Slot at 0 to 5 Per Cent, with No Ventilator Fitted

The Blackstone HS-A01 is a portable anaesthesia machine built in metal around a single glass flowmeter tube reading up to 5 L/min. One PA-1 vaporiser slot delivers 0 to 5 per cent; oxygen is the only metered gas; source pressure runs from 0.32 to 0.6 MPa; and no ventilator is fitted, so ventilation is manual or spontaneous. Available through Medigear.uk.

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Anaesthesia Machines

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Surgical & Therapeutic Equipment

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New

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China

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Certified Professional Seller

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Supplier: Medigear

The absence is the specification of this portable anaesthesia machine. Every other Blackstone machine has an integral ventilator, and this one does not. There is no mode list because there are no modes. Ventilation is delivered by hand on a bag or taken by the patient spontaneously, for as long as the case runs. That is a legitimate way to give an anaesthetic, and it has been done for a century, but it commits a pair of hands for the duration, and it rules out any case where controlled ventilation is required.

What remains is spare by design. One glass flowmeter tube reading to 5 litres a minute. Oxygen and nothing else, so no nitrous oxide and no air. A single PA-1 vaporiser slot delivering up to 5 per cent. Source pressure of 0.32 to 0.6 MPa, which matches ordinary pipeline supply. For a machine meant to work where a full workstation cannot, that simplicity is the point, not a shortcoming.

Two printed figures need explaining before anyone orders. The sheet gives an oxygen flow rate of 25 to 75 litres a minute alongside a flowmeter reading 0 to 5, and those cannot describe the same path. One is presumably supply capability or a flush, and the sheet does not say. The other is a maximum safe pressure of 12.5 kPa, around 125 centimetres of water, which sits far above any pressure a lung should see.

Whether that is a structural rating or a relief valve setting matters a great deal. Medigear.uk clarifies both before offering this portable anaesthesia machine.

Placing this portable anaesthesia machine correctly matters more than assessing it against theatre equipment. A hand-ventilated oxygen-and-one-agent machine belongs where a workstation cannot go: a remote site, a field setting, a patient transfer, or a facility with no piped gases beyond a cylinder. Judged against a modern workstation, it falls short on every count by which a workstation is measured. Judged against having nothing at all, it is a working anaesthetic machine, and that is the comparison the manufacturer presumably intends a buyer to make.

The vaporiser range is the limitation a UK service would notice first. Zero to 5 per cent covers isoflurane, halothane and enflurane comfortably. It does not reach the 6 to 8 per cent ordinarily used for inhalational induction with sevoflurane, and that is the standard technique for children, and for adults in whom venous access cannot readily be had. A department planning gas induction needs that settled before ordering. The slot type and the concentration range together decide which agents can be given at all, and neither is something to discover after delivery.

Scavenging is the other thing missing from the sheet entirely. A machine used away from theatre has no piped extraction, so exhaled volatile agent enters the room air and stays there. Occupational exposure limits apply wherever anaesthesia is given, not only in theatres, and nothing here describes how waste gas is collected or where it goes.

Medigear.uk establishes the scavenging arrangement, the breathing system, and the two unexplained figures before this portable anaesthesia machine is supplied.

It Goes Where a Workstation Cannot.

A metal machine running on one gas and one agent can be used at a remote site, on a transfer or in a facility without piped supplies beyond a cylinder.

Nothing Electrical to Fail

With no ventilator, screen, or electronics, there is no mains dependency and nothing that stops working when power does.

Very Few Components

One flowmeter tube, one vaporiser slot, and a bag is close to the minimum an anaesthetic machine can be, leaving correspondingly little to go wrong.

Standard Pipeline Pressure

Accepting 0.32 to 0.6 MPa means ordinary medical gas supply or a regulated cylinder feeds it without additional equipment.

A Named Vaporiser Fitting

Specifying the PA-1 slot type rather than describing it loosely lets you check compatibility against vaporisers a department already has.

Concentration Given as a Range

Zero to 5 per cent is a stated figure rather than a claim so that aagentscan bconfirm compatibilitybefore placing an order

Hand Ventilation Keeps Feel

Bagging a patient gives an anaesthetist direct feedback on compliance that no ventilator display reproduces, which some practitioners value.

Metal Construction

A metal body suits handling and transport better than moulded plastics, though no further material detail is published.

No Ventilator Fitted

Manual or spontaneous ventilation only.

One Glass Flowmeter Tube

Reading from zero to 5 litres per minute.

Oxygen Only

No nitrous oxide and no air are metered.

One PA-1 Vaporiser Slot

A single agent carried at a time.

Concentration of 0 to 5 Per Cent

Which does not reach sevoflurane induction levels.

Maximum Safe Pressure: 12.5 kPa

A figure whose meaning is not explained.

Source Pressure 0.32 to 0.6 MPa

Matching ordinary pipeline or regulated cylinder supply.

Metal Body

With no further construction details given.

This portable anaesthesia machine belongs in a different category from everything else Blackstone publishes, and should be listed that way: no ventilator, one gas, one vaporiser slot and a bag. Against a workstation, it does not compete and was never meant to; against having nothing, it works where nothing else can. Three things want settling before it is offered. The vaporiser tops out at 5 per cent, which does not reach the concentration ordinarily used for sevoflurane induction. Two printed figures contradict one another or go unexplained, namely the 25 to 75 litre flow rate beside a 5 litre flowmeter, and the 12.5 kPa pressure. And no weight appears on a machine sold as portable. Medigear.uk obtains all of it, including the scavenging arrangement and conformity marking, before quoting this portable anaesthesia machine.

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No, and that is the defining fact about it. Every other Blackstone machine has one built in. Here, ventilation is manual via a bag or spontaneous by the patient, which ties up a pair of hands and rules out cases needing controlled ventilation.

The slot is PA-1 type at 0 to 5 per cent, and no agent is named. That range suits isoflurane, halothane and enflurane. It does not reach the 6 to 8 per cent usually needed for sevoflurane induction, so discuss the gas induction technique before ordering.

Because inhalational induction is the standard approach for children and for adults without venous access, and it generally needs sevoflurane at 6 to 8 per cent. A vaporiser capped at 5 per cent cannot deliver that, whatever agent is fitted to the slot.

Oxygen alone. One glass flowmeter tube meters it up to 5 litres a minute, and neither nitrous oxide nor air appears anywhere on the sheet. Source pressure of 0.32 to 0.6 MPa matches ordinary pipeline supply or a regulated cylinder.

That is the question we have put to Blackstone. A flowmeter reading of 0 to 5 litres a minute and an oxygen flow rate of 25 to 75 cannot describe the same path. One is presumably a supply capability or a flush, and the sheet does not identify which.

Around 125 centimetres of water, which is far above any pressure a lung should be exposed to. Whether it is a structural rating for the machine or the setting of a pressure relief valve is unstated, and those two readings have very different consequences.

The sheet does not say. Away from a theatre, there is no piped extraction, so exhaled agent enters the room air unless something is fitted to collect it. Occupational exposure limits apply wherever anaesthesia is given, so the scavenging arrangement is established before supply.

Unknown, since no weight or dimensions are published. For a machine described as portable, a buyer most wants its weight and dimensions, how it is carried, and whether a cylinder mounts to it. All three are obtained from the manufacturer.