Set against the rest of the Blackstone range, this advanced anaesthesia workstation removes most of the objections. A department avoiding nitrous oxide can use it, because air is supplied. A department needing end-expiratory pressure can use it, because the PEEP valve is built in and electronically controlled. A department anaesthetising children can use it, because delivery starts at 15 ml and infant use is claimed explicitly rather than left to be inferred from a volume figure.
The monitoring options matter as much as the ventilator. British anaesthetic practice requires continuous capnography and agent monitoring throughout a case, and this is the only Blackstone sheet offering either. That both are available in a Masimo version rather than only an unnamed module is worth something, since Masimo is an established manufacturer whose performance is documented. Depth of anaesthesia monitoring on top of that is unusual at this level of machine. None of it is fitted as standard, so every part of it has to be specified at order rather than assumed.
What remains unresolved is narrower than elsewhere but still material. No I to E ratio is printed, which every other Blackstone sheet manages. No breathing rate range or pressure limits appear. Vaporisers sit under the options list with no mount count given, so how many agents the machine carries at one time is unknown. And the anti-hypoxic interlock goes undescribed, exactly as it does throughout this range.
Medigear.uk establishes those and the conformity position before this advanced anaesthesia workstation reaches a theatre.