Integrated Medical Systems Inc has shipped the first LSTAT Model G5 patient care platform bearing the CE mark, clearing the marketing, sale and use of the LSTAT platform throughout the European Union. The first customer of the LSTAT Model G5 is the Medical Depot of the Finnish Military Forces.

This fifth generation LSTAT ("el-stat") patient care platform is a portable intensive care unit only 15 centimeters thick that supports early, continuous and flexible critical care from the site of injury, through transport and in the hospital. Developed initially for -- and in current use by -- the U.S. military, the LSTAT patient care platform has direct applications to hospital overcrowding, homeland security and mass disaster scenarios, as well.

Integrated within the LSTAT platform are a state-of-the-art defibrillator, ventilator, suction, three-channel fluid and drug infusion pump, point-of-care blood chemistry analyzer, and patient monitoring subsystems. The platform also incorporates on-board power and oxygen capabilities. The medical subsystems are further integrated onto a common information architecture that captures, stores, and transmits continuous, real-time, multi-device, multi-parameter, time-synchronized patient data. Patient data is available at bedside on a handheld Secondary Display (with optional wireless capability), over a hospital's clinical information system, and over the Internet through secure web sites that protect patient privacy. The LSTAT platform has the ability to operate in land, air, and sea vehicles, as well as in urban and rural facility environments such as hospitals, clinics, and deployable medical facilities at natural or man-made disaster sites.

Building on the success of the current LSTAT Model 9602B, and responsive to input from LSTAT users around the world, the new LSTAT Model G5 incorporates multiple value-added enhancements, including a biphasic defibrillator, motion-tolerant non-invasive blood pressure and pulse oximetry sensors, mainstream end-tidal CO2 capability, infusion pump dose rate calculator, as well as additional data input and output to the handheld Secondary Display.