Safety Instructions
General Warnings
Operator's Manual
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Legal Notice
Disclaimer
FLIGHT MEDICAL INNOVATIONS LTD. (FLIGHT MEDICAL) provides this
Operator’s Manual in its commitment to help reduce patient risk and injury.
However, this manual is not intended to in any way replace or substitute duty
of care to a patient, professional responsibility, or professional judgment, nor
is it intended to provide any warranty, promise, guarantee, assumption of risk
or duty, release, or indemnity. Physicians shall at all times maintain
responsibility for patient treatment and outcomes, and FLIGHT MEDICAL
further assumes no liability for patient treatment or outcome or for physician's
negligence, breach of duty of care, or malpractice.
The FLIGHT 50 Ventilator operator is solely responsible for selecting the
appropriate level and method of patient monitoring. Product modification or
misuse can be dangerous. FLIGHT MEDICAL disclaims all liability for the
consequences of product alterations or modifications, as well as for the
consequences which might result from the combination of this ventilator with
other products, whether supplied by FLIGHT MEDICAL or by other
manufacturers, unless such a combination has been specifically endorsed by
FLIGHT MEDICAL.
The design of FLIGHT 50 Ventilator, the Operator’s and Service Manuals, and
the labeling on the ventilator, take into consideration that the purchase and
use of the equipment is restricted to trained professionals, and that certain
inherent characteristics of the ventilator are known to the operator.
Instructions, warnings, and caution statements are therefore limited to the
specifics of the FLIGHT 50 Ventilator.
Federal law (US) restricts this device to sale by or on the
order of a physician.
This Operator’s Manual excludes references to various hazards which are
obvious to medical professionals and operators of this equipment, to the
consequences of product misuse, and to potential adverse effects in patients
with abnormal conditions.
When the FLIGHT 50 Ventilator is used in homecare and subacute
environments, only properly trained personnel should operate the ventilator.
FLIGHT 50 Ventilator is a restricted medical device designed for use by
respiratory therapists or other properly trained and qualified personnel under
the direction of a physician and in accordance with applicable state laws and
regulations.
Transport of patients with the FLIGHT 50 Ventilator requires that medical staff
have a good working knowledge of the ventilator’s use and problem resolution.
Proper emergency backup equipment must be immediately available during
transport.
FLIGHT 50 Ventilator operators must recognize their responsibility for
implementing safety monitoring mechanisms which supply appropriate
