Purpose-designed pendants

The hospital is a regional centre of excellence for nephrology, renal transplantation, cancer surgery, vascular surgery, hematology and pathology. As part of a refurbishment, one ward is being transformed into a new intensive care unit, which includes three isolated rooms and a five-bay ICU room. Two Brandon pendants encapsulate the patient bed. The first is a customised device mounted from an ondascopic arm specially designed to hold a greater number of services and equipment than a comparable standard system, including gas outlets, volumetric pumps, syringe drivers, and an infusion rack. The second is mounted onto a vertical service column designed specifically for the Trust. As the two-pendant system’s weight can put a strain on ceiling structures not designed to handle such weights, Brandon designed a service column to support the ceiling and take the pendants’ weight. The second pendant incorporates medical gas outlets, avoiding potentially hazardous trailing wires and cables, and a Brandon Coolview 35 multi-purpose examination light, adjustable to give an intense spotlight or floodlight, making it suitable for “virtually any examination”.