What is the QED device?
Dr. Derek Sakata: The QED device came about because of the need to actually actively remove or reverse inhaled anesthetics. We found in our populations that coming out of the anesthesia was a big issue and that patients just were not feeling well — they were groggy, they had tendencies not to breathe very well coming out of anesthesia. The ability to actually change the way we practice anesthesiology by actively removing inhaled anesthetics and countering those effects so that patients can do better out of anesthesia was the main premise to do this. How does the QED device work? Dr. Sakata: The nice thing about this device is it’s a very simple device, but it intrinsically changes the way our inhaled anesthetics that keep patients asleep work. It is basically a filter that takes the anesthetic out. There’s also a re-breathing hose so that a patient can actually re-breathe their oxygen and carbon dioxide to augment that drive to breathe and also augment the washout of the anesthetics o
