Leader in Anesthesia Innovation & Efficiency
—Since its market launch in 2009, Dräger Zeus® IE has been an industry-leading anesthesia machine in terms of innovation, efficiency, advanced ventilation therapy, and monitoring capabilities. Zeus IE is the only anesthesia device offering "Target-controlled anesthesia" with closed-loop anesthesia (quantitative anesthesia) which makes it the most economic and ecologic-friendly anesthesia machine related to agent consumption.
As a Zeus IE customer, you now have the opportunity to upgrade the performance of your device with three options to further support improving your clinical outcomes:
Smart Ventilation Control: Ventilation assistance to maintain predefined etCO2 targets.
SmartPilot® View: Software that guides titration of the anesthetic agent delivery for optimized anesthesia depth.
Lung Recruitment: Tool that automates the deployment of recruitment maneuvers during general anesthesia.
Minimise CO2 Footprint
—Our mission is to support you in environmentally sustainable anesthesia delivery.
Study Results: 5% of CO2 equivalence emissions in acute NHS hospitals are contributed by inhalation anaesthetics.1
Reference Case: Dr. Timur Özelsel, anesthesiologist and Vice-Chair Section for Environmental Sustainability at the Canadian Anesthesia Society (CAS-ES), explains how efficiently he can work with the Auto Control mode of Zeus IE by automatically minimizing the agent consumption down to metabolic flow to reduce CO2 footprint and to save cost.
Animated Illustration: Anesthetic agents are potent greenhouse gases; therefore, it should be the goal to reduce the amount of anesthetic agent released to the atmosphere during surgery. This simplified video illustrates how Zeus IE with closed system technology can support you to minimize your CO2 footprint during your daily work.
Maintain Cerebral Blood Flow
—Hypocapnia during general anesthesia can cause an increase in postoperative mortality rate, LOS1, and can be associated with postoperative delirium (POD).2
Deploying a lung protective ventilation strategy with adaptive tidal volume and respiratory frequency to maintain predefined etCO2 targets (32 to 38 mmHg) can help reduce the risk of hypocapnia situation and maintain intraoperative normocapnia. Overall, this can accelerate postoperative recovery and decelerate side effects of general anesthesia.
Reference Case: For years in St. Josef's Hospital in Salzkotten, Germany, Dr. Baur and his team have been using the safe and lung-friendly semi-automatic ventilation control "Smart Ventilation Control" (SVC) as the standard ventilation regime in their daily TIVA routines. They do this because SVC combines clinical advantages (e.g. avoidance of hypocapnia) with increased the workflow efficiency (e.g. ease of use).
Animated Illustration: During general anesthesia hypocapnia can develop because of inadequate ventilation and may induce low cerebral blood flow. This video illustrates how the SVC option (requires software version 2.0 or higher) of Zeus IE can assist you as a clinician to maintain cerebral blood flow during surgery.
Reduce Risk of Atelectasis
—Atelectasis occurs frequently and is found in up to 90% of all patients during general anesthesia.1 It is among the postoperative pulmonary complications which can have relevant effects on morbidity and mortality.2
Zeus IE's Lung Recruitment Tool offers single- and multi-step automated recruitment manoeuvres to simplify the deployment of intraoperative lung recruitment manoeuvres. This can help defeat atelectasis and incorporate key ICU ventilation techniques to enhance lung protective strategies in the OR.
Animated Illustration: Almost every mechanically ventilated patient is at risk for atelectasis, which can lead to post-operative pulmonary complications. Repeated recruitment maneuvers are an important component of protective ventilation to combat intraoperative atelectasis. This simplified video illustrates how the Lung Recruitment Tool Option (requires software version 2.0 or higher) with Zeus IE supports you in easy deployment of recruitment maneuvers during general anesthesia.
Adequate Organ Perfusion
—"Too deep" anesthesia is a complication that may occur during general anesthesia. It can cause intraoperative hypotension induced inadequate organ perfusion (1,2) that is independently associated with increased postoperative morbidity3, postoperative delirium(4,5) and mortality.
Reference Case: At Diamond Plastikkirurgi in Örebro, Sweden, they use two Zeus IE anesthesia machines with Infinity Acute Care System patient monitoring. Both devices are equipped with the Smart Ventilation Control option (an intelligent ventilation assistant) and SmartPilot View (software for visualizing the depth of anesthesia).
"SmartPilot View is very easy to use. I really appreciate being able to see the balance of anesthesia and being able to predict what is going to happen."
- Ann-Sofie Strandh, Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetist
"The patients we've had success with our targeted anesthesia feel so much better. They are more alert and they experience that they come home faster, which is important for both of us. They may even give us positive feedback the next day."
- Dr. Jan Stepniewski, Anesthesia and Intensive Care Specialist
Animated Illustration: This simplified video illustrates how the integrated SmartPilot View option of Zeus IE supports you in patient-specific anesthetic agent titration by visualising the depth of anesthesia.
Safety Mechanism
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Safety mechanism to support you in patient safety
Your goal is to provide high quality therapy for your patients and to improve outcomes while focusing on patient safety.
In addition to enhancing your abilities to provide care for your patients through high quality ventilation therapy, decision-making support assistance, cost saving anesthesia delivery systems, and outstanding monitoring capabilities, the Zeus® IE integrates safety mechanisms that support you with patient safety measures, including:
- Target Controlled Anesthesia (TCA), can help reduce overshoot and fluctuations
- Leakage assistant for instant leak detection - helps you to identify the leakage source and displays real-time leakage value during system use
- Automated and timer-based self-test that needs no attendance and can save time before the OR day starts
Ready to try it out?
—Our teaser license program lets you experience the full potential of Zeus IE with these options for 336 hours free of charge. Contact your local Dräger representative or fill out the form below to learn about this exciting program!