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The Puritan Bennett® 840™ ventilator system is the

flagship product in our line of critical care ventilators. It is

highly responsive and offers superior comfort, delivering

sensitive, precise breaths to critically ill neonatal through

adult patients.
 WHY THE 840™ VENTILATOR IS THE WORLD’S
BEST-SELLING CRITICAL CARE VENTILATOR

Patient
comfort With highly responsive proportional solenoid valves,

an active exhalation valve and state-of-the-art flow sensors, the 840

ventilator provides exceptional responsiveness and control. These

features deliver sensitive and precise breaths, and in turn, superior

comfort to patients.

Patient and
clinician safety
SmartAlert ™ Alarm System: Prioritized alarm
annunciation distinguishes primary alarms from

secondary, “dependent” alarms.

• System indicates the urgency level of each alarm

to help you efficiently respond to alarm conditions.

Protection from contaminants: A special filter heating

process shields patients and clinicians from exposure Circuit disconnect alarm: Special circuit
to viruses and bacteria from exhaled gases. disconnect alarm does not rely on low

• Expiratory filter is capable of filtering viruses such pressure or tidal volume to activate.

as SARS. • When a circuit disconnects, gas flow stops

to prevent the spread of contaminants.

• Technicians are alerted so they can quickly

identify the source of the disconnection.

Self-diagnostic testing: Subsystems are

thoroughly checked 100 times per second.

• Message display notifies technicians of

potential failures if any drift in performance
occurs while ventilating.
 Seamless
communication The 840 ventilator

supports communication with all major patient

monitoring and hospital information systems. Ease of use The innovative

It also provides seamless recorded data transfer design of the 840 ventilator makes it

into a patient’s electronic medical record. easy for technicians to set up and navigate.

It minimizes training requirements for

your staff.

• DualView ™ LCD touchscreens display

monitored data separately from ventilator
settings, so clinicians can change settings
and view the impact in one easy place.

• Short self-test feature resets the 840

ventilator settings in between patient use
in about two minutes. The test checks for
proper ventilation operation and calculates
circuit compliance.

You can change

display selections
and scaling even
while waveforms
are frozen.
Puritan Bennett Clinivision Mobile Patient

Charting System: The 840 ventilator teams

up with the Clinivision system to automate

respiratory care patient charting and help

Pressure-based
balance RT workloads. The Clinivision system: breath delivery
allows you to
• Offers the latest in wireless, mobile clinical select inspiratory
time, I:E ratio, or
information technology.
expiratory time
as a direct
• Puts patient information right where you
setting.
need it—at your fingertips.

• Produces more accurate records and

improved charge capture.

• Supports evidence-based medicine

for improved patient care.
 Software options
• PAV ™
+ Software
Provides consistent support
for the work of breathing
even with changes in respiratory drive.
Best in class • BiLevel ™ Software

service Puritan Bennett offers one of the Allows patient to breathe

spontaneously at two levels of PEEP.
most comprehensive field service programs

in the ventilator industry. • Volume Ventilation Plus ™ Software

A pressure control breath style with
• Our extensive team of Customer Service Engineers a guaranteed tidal volume.
and Technical Support staff are dedicated to giving
• Tube Compensation Software
Puritan Bennett ventilator customers the highest
Accurately overcomes the work of
quality service.
breathing through an artificial airway.
• Our field-based sales and service organizations
• NeoMode ® Software
work together to provide customers with prompt
Allows ventilation on neonatal patients
warranty and repair services as well as education
as small as 500 grams.
and insight into new or upgraded 840 ventilator
features and product options.

Noninvasive

Low cost of Ventilation

The 840 ventilator
ownership The 840 ventilator is designed also comes standard
equipped with non-
with rugged and reliable components, and its modular
invasive ventilation
design provides easy serviceability. According to (NIV) software.
MD Buyline, the 840 ventilator has the lowest 10-year
cost of ownership in its class. The 840 ventilator can
also be upgraded and customized with various soft-

ware options to meet your clinical needs, today and

in the future—minimizing the cost of fleet upgrades.

 Shown here is the PAV+ software
option, a spontaneous breath type
that adjusts ventilator support
based on patient demand.

For more
information on the 840 ventilator,
please contact your Puritan Bennett
sales representative or call Customer
Service at 1-800-635-5267.

www.puritanbennett.com
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What our customers are saying

about the 840 ventilator...

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is user-friendly, clinically versatile, and

gives us the ability to offer our patients
excellent care. We depend on Puritan
Bennett’s proven record for dependable
“work horse” ventilators as well as for
their superior service.”

– SUE HENRY, RRT