RECENT PRODUCT NEWS

Patient information and entertainment system specialist Airwave has supplied mental healthcare Trust Pennine Care NHS Trust with bespoke wall-mounted TV systems for five forensic units for the mentally ill (accommodating 75 beds in all) in the Greater Manchester area, each offering a variety of external and “internal” TV channels, and encompassed in a robust perspex “bubbled shroud” to guard against patient self-harm.

Eastwood Park, the privately-owned training centre for personnel in the healthcare engineering, estates and facilities management arena, offers a wide range of training courses – on subjects ranging from decontamination and infection control, use of medical gas equipment, fire safety and lift maintenance, to estates and facilities management.

Infection control and surgical innovation specialist Steris will be showing its new Harmony LED lighting and visualisation system, designed to provide excellent deep-cavity illumination and highly accurate rendition of skin and organ colouring to surgeons without generating significant heat in the operating theatre.

Parity Medical provides clinical information access solutions via mobile, desk and wall-mounted devices for use in theatres, on wards and A&E, in MDT and training rooms, for projects such as PACS, care records, pharmacy, digital signage, patient information/ entertainment and bed management.

With rising energy costs and the current focus on resource conservation, manufacturer and developer of industrial and commercial humidification systems Dri-Steem has developed a new humidification option – new, high efficiency dispersion tubes for its Ultra-sorb and Rapid-sorb steam dispersion systems, to be shown at Healthcare Ireland on the Intelligent Building Controls stand.

Trumpf Medical Systems supplies pendant solutions, operating tables and operating lights to operating theatres, ICU and HDU departments.

Specialist healthcare communication provider Static Systems Group will showcase its award-winning patient handsets, which can be seen for the first time in the Irish Republic following successful launches in both the UK and internationally.

Visitors to the DOP Solutions stand will be able to see its low particle shedding tools for use in cleanrooms and theatres. The company says such tools are now widely used in the pharmaceutical sector, where they are proving to be durable, easy-to-clean and reliable.

Drax (UK) will show for the first time its Connect AMX1 alarm management system. A “powerful, bespoke approach to systems integration”, the AMX1 can integrate existing standalone third party systems, including fire detection, security, lighting and plant, into one “easily manageable, convenient and simply controlled system” without compromising individual system integrity.

Being shown on the joint Trend Controls/ Intelligent Building Controls stand (the latter is Trend’s Irish agent), the new Trend Controls IQ3xcite building management system controller is said to represent “a massive leap forward in technology”.

Healthcare Ireland has been chosen by City & Kent Cleaning to launch its new, specialised hospital and healthcare deep cleaning service, Intensive Deep Clean Systems (iDCS).

Induchem Components, which partners HVAC hydronic performance specialist Flow Control Industries in Ireland, says Flow Control’s DeltaPValves use “fundamentally different technology” to that utilised in conventional hot and chilled water system design to provide a 25-35% reduction in system energy consumption.

Speciality chemical manufacturer Amity will show new variants of its Virusolve family of cleaning solutions, including Virusolve+ EDS, for rapid cleaning / disinfection of medical, surgical, dental and endoscopic instruments in one application.

Distributor of emergency response, infection control and health and safety products to the Irish healthcare sector Patron Distributors will feature on its stand the “Demistifier” negative pressure system for the isolation and containment of infectious patients in hospitals.

The latest mobile digital radiography, surgical imaging and ultrasound systems will be on display for demonstration on the Xograph Healthcare stand.

Celtic Linen will be launching a microfibre mop rental service at Healthcare Ireland 2008 in conjunction with Bunzl Ireland and Vermop.

Ardmac Group, which claims to be one of the leading interior contracting companies in the Republic of Ireland and the UK, has offices in Dublin, Craigavon and Manchester and over 30 years’ experience in delivering fit-out, refurbishment and turnkey solutions to the healthcare, commercial, retail and biopharma sectors.

The new IEC 62353 international standard for in-service testing of electromedical devices forms the focus of Rigel Medical’s presence at Healthcare Ireland 2008.

Door and doorset manufacturer Leaderflush Shapland Ireland will showcase its Hygieniform high impact anti-bacterial PVC, which incorporates Hygienilac, a new doorset coating the company says will provide significant benefits for the healthcare sector, particularly for environments where C. difficile is of concern.

Manufacturer and installer of specialist furniture, work surfaces, independent panel systems, bespoke reception desks and nurses’ stations for healthcare and laboratory environments Carella will introduce its versatile, spacesaving new Flexmodule storage system.