Green Machine

Okay, what is the purpose of this thing, then?

I was wondering that too.

Only Mrs. Dr. Sketch knows - and she's not telling.

Actually, kinda looks like a suction machine - but I'm not for sure. I can certainly find out, however.

Lynne to the rescue! Certainly lots of guages and such.

And I LOVE the old wainscoting!

It does look like an Aspirator(suction unit) and given that this was a TB facility. It makes sense to have one.
Even today it is still the most effective way to clean out the lungs and general airway.

Another nifty contraption. Lynne??

Jude...I didn't notice the wainscotting until you pointed it out...That is something you don't see much of anymore...too bad, I like it too...

I doubt herr doktor will let on what it is for, either, Lynne!!! ;)

Ahhhh, the plot thickens

The green dials would mean oxygen...? I think I am remembering that right.

I put wainscoting in my dining room just to make the house look different.

is this not some sort of dental equipment, with the draws open?

If it's a suction machine then they might have oxygen and such attached to the cart as well, or it might be an oxygen powered suction device. Lyric is right - when you have lungs full of nasty stuff or if you have a trach tube you need to be suctioned regularly. It would make sense for people whose lungs aren't working well, such as in TB, to have oxygen tanks at the ready, or again, it might have been oxygen powered - I just don't know if they had those back then.

This machine looks similar to a crash cart - they also have lots of drawers to put little goodies in. If this is a suction machine you need a variety of different sizes of suction catheters on hand and a lot of back-up ones, because you sure can't use the same one more than once at a pop. =8-o

http://www.mednetlocator.com/miscequi.htm
http://emergency.ferno...default.php?cPath=31
http://www.angiplast.com/pr_suct.htm

Thanks Lynne! We loves ya!

Totally confuddled...is there a new Lynne...or did our Lynne develope some kind of multiple personality also named Lynne and is nice...wow...strange...

Poor Jude got corn-fused and wrote my name twice. Very much like someone else (whose name shall remain hidden but rhymes with "frug") did once (with someone whose name rhymes with "chuckie").
While I am obviously my own biggest (and usually only) fan, even I am not imperious enough to kiss my own hindquarters in public. Well, at least not enough to get caught while doing it - besides it throws my neck out something fierce. :-)

It /almost/ makes up for Lynne's mistake of crediting Lyric's info to me. xD

Whatever are you talking about, child?!?!?!?!?!?!?!

Thanks for clearing that up!

Humm...rhymes with "frug" and "chuckie"...whoever could they be? LoL! ;0)

Hmmm, Lynne ... must have been a figment of my imagination. Guess that's what I get for drinking too much cinder, eh?

Cinder? Do you mean cider, with Capt Morgan in it, Serrena?

Okay, we'll go with that, Grifs.

Oy, yes I must confess under bright lights it was me, not ~Me, but me who typed Lynne's name. Please pardon my error.....I've been so sick and my brain is fuzzy from cold medicines......

Okay Lynne, I just let ya off the hook darlin', you owe me that $50 now okee dokee? **wink wink**

Lynne is right, its a surgical aspirator. The modern ones arent far off from this one.

Lynne, I love your posts, you are a world of infomation about these hospitals!

its an aspirator alright, when me and me bro where trainin to be Physiotherapists we got to suck shit out of OAPs throats...its pretty gruesome really...

This looks like the anathesia machine we have at the vets office where I work.

I agree, it definately looks like a crash cart. All units in the hospital still have something very similar with suction set ups, oxygen and other respiratory gases. The drawers most likely had cardic drugs, airways, oxygen masks and equipment like that. It's a holy shit cart.

I could buy it being a crash cart, but at my work ours is so small due to being a familypractice office and we have on on each floor, with our own oxygen tanks that are portable, if anyones interested in a sigmoidoscopy, I am your woman got to ASSists it that once, 8-}

theres a sack of some kind of flesh stapped to the top :P

It looks like the inner workings of a Gomco Suction machine. A coomon sight in a TB hospital and in most general hospitals.

I think it is an anaesthetic trolley used in an operating theatre, the regulators on the side would have cylinders of anaesthetic gas and oxygen attatched and on top is a suction unit.

It looks alot like the really old powered anesthesia machines.

I used one of these to evacuate the freon from the ac in my car

weirdddd.
(:

You have the connections for 3 gas cylinders on the side (where the gauges are). On the upper side there are 4 flow meters and suction unit. So this is.. definitly a emergency unit.

Whoa, Man. I totally thought that was a mannequins head sitting up on there. For real. I blame it on my lack of medication.

Motts great work as usual u can't take a bad shot we all know that us your fans,green machines in Australia they were the thing every kid in the 70's wanted.You sitt on them and they had levers to steer. I never got one but they were the bomb.i used to see kids on them and press my face up to the car window glass and dream.'YOU TRIED AND TRIED YOU RODE A BIKE NOW RIDE THE GREEN MACHINE,GREEN MACHINE" THAT WAS THE COMMERCIAL.

Great work Motts. This is an anaesthetic machine. 3 cyclinders on the side would have been 2 oxygen cylinders & 1 nitrousoxide. The suction bottle / machine would normally be on the floor next to the anaesthetic machine, but in this shot it is just resting on top of the anaesthetic trolley.

whats it do