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Sponsors Information

 

Gold Sponsors

B.Braun Australia Pty Ltd

17 Lexington Drive
Bella Vista NSW 2153
Australia
T: +61 2 9629 0294 F: +61 2 9629 0299
E: sheree.brugel@bbraun.com www.bbraun.com.au
Contact: Sheree Brugel

B. Braun – Sharing Expertise. The B. Braun Group stands for competence in healthcare. For more than 165 years, the company has been developing, producing and distributing products and services for medicine, and, with its modern approach and innovative strength, it has developed into a worldwide group of companies and a leading supplier for the healthcare market.

B. Braun does not merely export all over the world, it also has business activities in many different countries. In 2007, almost 35,000 employees in over 50 countries generated sales of EUR 3.6bn.

The target customers are hospitals, medical practices, pharmacies, and care and emergency services. The product spectrum ranges from infusion solutions, injection pumps and accessories for infusion therapy, intensive medicine and anesthesia to surgical instruments, sterile containers and sutures, hip and knee endoprostheses, power systems and accessories for extra corporeal blood treatment and products for wound care. The complete range encompasses more than 30,000 different products. In addition, the company offers consulting services, for example helping hospitals to optimize their processes and assure quality, or preparing patients and their families for homecare, handling all the formalities for them, supporting them in the transition period and ensuring that they receive qualified care.

Edwards Lifesciences Pty Ltd

8/167 Prospect Highway
Seven Hills NSW 2147
Freecall: 1800 222 601 Freefax: 1800 222 602
W: http://www.edwards.com/
Contact: Customer Service

Edwards Lifesciences is the global leader in the science of hemodynamic monitoring and heart valves. Headquartered in Irvine, Calif., Edwards treats advanced cardiovascular disease with its market-leading critical care technologies and heart valve and vascular products. Edwards has more than 5,600 employees worldwide, selling medical technologies in nearly 100 countries. In 2008, Edwards celebrates 50 years of partnering with clinicians to develop life-saving innovations.

The company's global brands, which are sold in approximately 100 countries, include, Swan-Ganz, FloTrac, Truwave, Carpentier-Edwards, Cosgrove-Edwards Fogarty and PERIMOUNT Magna. Edwards Lifesciences leverages its research, design, development and marketing expertise to produce products that address specific clinical problems including critical care technologies, heart valve disease, and vascular disease.

The Acute Blood Purification division is a complementary product offer. The advanced design of the Aquarius System is intended to offer enhanced accuracy and convenience, offering a large spectrum of therapies with an ongoing commitment in product innovation. Still today the Aquarius System continues to elvolve.

Edwards Lifesciences constantly work to support our clinicians to fulfill important therapy goals.

Edwards Lifesciences Critical Care Technology products include:

Vigileo Arterial Pressure Cardiac Output Monitor

Swan Ganz ™ catheters, Monitoring, CCO/SVO2 /CEDV, Pacing catheters, small French catheters

TruWave Pressure monitoring products,

Vigilance Continuous Cardiac Output computers,

AVA3xi and AVA High Flow - Advanced Venous Access catheters,

Multimed Central Venous catheters,

Vantex Oligon™ Antimicrobial Central Venous catheters,

Introflex Introducers

Acute Blood Purification – Aquarius Machine

Gambro Pty Ltd

Principal Office
P O Box 6604 BHBC
Baulkham Hills NSW 2153
Australia
T: +61 2 8852 3700 F: +61 2 9634 1375
E: karla.tate@gambro.com www.gambro.com
Contact: Karla Tate

Gambro is a global medical technology company and a leader in developing, manufacturing and supplying products, therapies and services for Renal Intensive Care, In-centre Care and Self-care Haemodialysis, Peritoneal dialysis, and Hepatic Care.

For decades Gambro has led the market in renal care development and has been first to market with many groundbreaking innovations. By designing and delivering complete solutions to intensive care units and dialysis clinics Gambro offers not just improved treatment quality, but also improved efficiency for our customers and the patients they care for.

Gambro Renal Intensive Care has been working with healthcare professionals in intensive care for more than twenty years. Our commitment has remained the same through the years, as we continually strive to find the best way to support intensive care units in optimal and innovative blood purification therapies.

The solid relationships we have formed with healthcare professionals in this field are key to our future innovations. Only by understanding the challenges they face are we able to help improve both their work routines and patient treatment.

This dedication to improving quality and achieving new innovations has enabled us to remain at the forefront of our field. The Prismaflex® platform is Gambro’s latest therapeutic innovation for renal intensive care that leads the way in continuous renal replacement therapies.

Mayo Healthcare

34 Morley Avenue
Rosebery
NSW 2018
Australia
T: +61 2 8337 7900 F: +61 2 8337 7988
E: gclarke@mayohealthcare.com.au
 www.mayohealthcare.com.au
Contact: Greg Clarke

MAYO HEALTHCARE is proudly the largest Australian wholly owned private medical device distributor of its kind in Australia. We have offices and technical service facilities in Sydney, Brisbane, Melbourne, Adelaide and Perth. Mayo Healthcare also provides product, service and customer support to New Zealand through its joint-venture company in Auckland, CARE MEDICAL.

Our Vision is to provide quality service and products to the Australian healthcare market and to ensure that products and services supplied exhibit the highest possible standards in the industry. In the execution of its commitment to customers, management consider customer satisfaction and confidence in our products and services to be of the greatest importance.

We specialise in but are not limited to the exclusive distribution of products to meet the needs of the following clinical arenas:

  • Cardio-Vascular
  • Invasive & Non-Invasive Ventilation
  • Cardio-Pulmonary Diagnostic
  • Respiratory
  • Technical Services
  • Education Services

Mayo Healthcare Pty Ltd provides products, services and customer support to Public and Private Healthcare Institutions, Allied Health Services, Emergency Services, Defence Forces, Aged & Palliative Care Facilities and Medical Wholesalers.

Silver Sponsors

Abbott Nutrition

32-34 Lord Street
BOTANY NSW 2019
T: +61 2 9384 9851 F: +61 2 9384 9999
E: amanda.hart@abbott.com www.abbott.com
Contact: Amanda Hart

As a division of Abbott, Abbott Nutrition remains committed to the highest standards of quality, excellence, and innovation, remaining true to the tenets upon which our company was founded — providing innovative and superior nutrition that advances the quality of life for people of all ages. As our name indicates — nutrition is our business.
Our cutting-edge science is behind some of the world's most trusted names in the nutritional market: PediaSure® for children; Ensure® for adults and Glucerna® for people with diabetes.Oxepa® provides specialized nutrition designed to help normalize inflammatory response in mechanically ventilated critically ill patients. Oxepa has been clinically shown to reduce length of stay in the ICU.

Draeger Medical Australia

Unit 97, Axxess Corporate Park
45 Gilby Road
Mt Waverley VIC 3149
T: +61 3 9244 7213 F: + 61 3 9244 7287
E:
dea.stavar@draeger.com  www.draeger.com

Dräger Medical is one of the world's leading manufacturers of medical equipment. We offer products, services and integrated CareArea™ Solutions throughout the patient care process - Emergency Care, Perioperative Care, Critical Care and Perinatal Care.

Our CareArea™ Solutions combine leading-edge information management, patient monitoring, therapy and architectural systems to help redefine process efficiency, plus Education & Training, DrägerService® and smart accessories to help optimize care processes.

Discover how we can help impact your business of care. Visit Dräger Medical today.

Fresenius Medical Care Asia Pacific

Regional Office
51/F Sun Hung Kai Centre
30 Harbour Road, Wanchai
Hong Kong
T: +852 2802 2900 F: +852 2898 2273
E: Eonjung.Lim@fmc-asia.com
 www.fmc-ag.com
Contact: Eonjung Lim

Innovating for better care
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Fresenius Medical Care is the world’s largest, most comprehensive healthcare manufacturer and service provider for individuals undergoing dialysis for kidney failure.

Providing medically sound, high-quality products and services, Fresenius Medical Care offers innovative technologies and therapeutic treatments based on extensive medical and scientific research and engineering.

With a dedicated team of renal-care professionals and specialists in more than 100 countries, we are committed to providing the highest medical standards and care to patients and healthcare partners.

HAMILTON Medical AG

Via Crusch 8
CH-7402 Bonaduz
Switzerland
E:
gacourt@hamilton-medical.ch www.hamilton-medical.com
Contact: Graeme A’Court

Australian contact details:
AHC (Aust)
Unit 4/10 Lymoore Avenue
Thornleigh, New South Wales, 2120
Australia
T: +61 2 9980 9669

Hamilton Medical is a Swiss company that is recognised by ECRI and MD buyline as the leader of high quality advanced life support ventilators.

Hamilton Medical will be displaying the Hamilton G5 which provides complete solutions in all aspects of ventilation management with new features such volumetric end tidal CO2 and Heliox.

As well Hamilton Medical will be displaying for the first time in Asia Pacific the Hamilton C2 which is a brand new platform in the Hamilton range and like the Hamilton G5 will redefine the direction in mechanical ventilation.

What defines Hamilton Medical is leadership in patient safety through advanced ventilation modes such as “ASV” and the “Ventilation Cockpit” that provides absolute status on where the patient is in there ventilation management.

ASV is the leading closed loop mode of complete ventilation that provides optimised ventilation settings that is well proven to reduce overall ventilation time along with the complications that are associated with many ventilation modes.

Another advanced feature is the unique PV tool that provides the user with a powerful lung recruitment tool and provides accurate data on setting the optimal PEEP.

Maquet Australia

PO Box 50
Bulimba QLD 4170
T: 1300 304 372 F: +61 7 3395 6712
www.maquet.com
Contact: Customer Service

THREE MAQUET DIVISIONS - ONE CLEAR GOAL

OPTIMUM MEDICAL TECHNOLOGY

Since its foundation more than 170 years ago, MAQUET has stood for innovation and technological progress in the field of medicine, in particular products and services for Operating Room and Intensive Care Unit.

MAQUET invests in research and development on an international scale in order to meet the challenges faced by clinics and hospitals on a daily basis. Premium products from MAQUET combine medical, clinical and economic benefits equally to create medical technology solutions for more efficient treatment of patients. Through this customer oriented approach MAQUET establishes – the Gold Standard – for innovative medical technologies.

The MAQUET brand forms the common umbrella for an extensive product range used to equip medical workstations.

MAQUET has three speciality Divisions for infrastructure equipment and therapy devices:

  • MAQUET Critical Care
    Workstations for intensive care including the SERVO-i ventilation platform.

  • MAQUET Cardiopulmonary
    Workstations for open-heart surgery including JOSTRA perfusion systems and oxygenators.

  • MAQUET Surgical Workplaces
    Equipment for the operating room, emergency room, examination and ward.

At the Asia Pacific Critical Care 2008 Congress MAQUET will be launching;

  • MAGNUS - the world’s most advance operating table,

  • PowerLED - a new standard of illumination quality,

  • SERVO-i with NAVA - Neurally Adjusted Ventilatory Assist.

MEMBER OF THE GETINGE GROUP

 

Philips Healthcare

Locked Bag 30
North Ryde NSW 1670
T: +61 2 9947 0158 F: +61 2 9947 0230
E:
tania.marczenko@philips.com www.philips.com.au/healthcare
Contact: Tania Marczenko

Philips is one of the world’s leading technology companies, with a long history of practical innovation and visionary design. In healthcare, we are committed to understanding the human and technological needs of patients and caregivers. We believe this understanding will help us deliver solutions that not only enable more confident diagnoses and more efficient delivery of care, but also improve the overall experience of care. We offer equipment, software, and services for imaging, patient monitoring, resuscitation and much more. People focused. Healthcare simplified.


 

Bronze Sponsors

Abbott

32-34 Lord Street
BOTANY NSW 2019
T: +61 2 9384 9851 F: +61 2 9384 9999
E:
julia.grealy@abbott.com www.abbott.com
Contact: Julia Grealy

Abbott is a global, broad-based health care company devoted to the discovery, development, manufacture and marketing of pharmaceuticals and medical products, including nutritionals and devices. The company employs 65,000 people and markets its products in more than 130 countries. Abbott's news releases and other information are available on the company's Web site at www.abbott.com. Simdax (levosimendan) is registered in New Zealand for the short term treatment of ADHF in situations where conventional therapy is not sufficient, and in cases where inotropic support is considered appropriate.

CSL Bioplasma

189 – 209 Camp Road
Broadmeadows VIC 3047
Australia
T: +61 3 9246 5712 F: +61 2 9246 5728
E:
Melrose.padua@csl.com.au www.csl.com.au
Contact: Melrose Padua

CSL is a leading provider of plasma-derived therapeutics to countries in the Asia-Pacific.

CSL Bioplasma is the chosen national plasma fractionator of Australia, New Zealand, Hong Kong, Malaysia, Singapore and Taiwan and has more than 50 years experience fractionating plasma-derived therapeutics. CSL Bioplasma works with health authorities and blood services in these countries to ensure they experience the benefits that self-sufficiency provides.

CSL Bioplasma uses a series of complementary pathogen barriers, or layers of safety, to ensure that our full range of plasma-derived therapeutics has a very high level of protection against blood-borne pathogens. Each successive pathogen barrier further increases pathogen safety of our products.

CSL Behring provides a wide range of commercial plasma-derived therapeutics in Asia. CSL Behring is a global leader in the biotherapeutics industry. Dedicated to improving the quality of life for patients throughout the world, CSL Behring provides effective and well-tolerated plasma-derived and recombinant products and offers patients a wide range of related services.

Much of CSL’s focus over the past 50 years has been on serving the needs of intensive care professionals, including developing new critical care products, such as ALBUMEX® 2VI a high purity human albumin and PROTHROMBINEX-VF® (Human prothrombin complex, freeze dried).

Hospira

Level 3, 390 St Kilda Road
Melbourne VIC 3004
T: +61 3 9868 0106 F: +61 3 9868 0713
E:
lisa.robinson@hospira.com www.hospira.com
Contact: Lisa Robinson

Hospira, Inc. is a global specialty pharmaceutical and medication delivery company dedicated to Advancing Wellness™ by developing, manufacturing and marketing products that help improve the productivity, safety and efficacy of patient care. In February 2007, Hospira acquired Mayne Pharma Limited to become the world leader in specialty generic injectable pharmaceuticals. With 70 years of service to the hospital industry, Hospira's portfolio includes one of the industry's broadest lines of generic acute-care and oncology injectables, which help address the high cost of proprietary pharmaceuticals; and integrated solutions for medication management and infusion therapy. Headquartered north of Chicago in Lake Forest, Ill., Hospira has approximately 15,000 employees worldwide. Hospira's news releases and other information can be found at www.hospira.com.

 




 


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