RECENT PRODUCT NEWS

A sophisticated £1 m Vanguard Healthcare mobile operating theatre will be among the stars of the show at Healthcare Ireland.

Schneider Electric will launch the new Thorsman MWU 300 and MWU 500 medical bedhead trunking systems for the Irish market, providing hospital wards with easy access to power, lighting, communications and gas for medical purposes.

Just Washroom’s new Sensaflush water management system is specifically designed to “drastically reduce water consumption by eliminating unnecessary and expensive wastage from urinals in washrooms”.

North Staffordshire Combined Healthcare NHS Trust has bought over 300 Fireco Dorgards for fitting to fire doors throughout its hospital wards, health centres, community homes, and bungalows for people living with learning disabilities.

According to System Sensor, reportedly the world’s largest manufacturer of fire detectors, Greater Manchester fire crews spent over 97,000 hours in 2006 alone dealing with 13,500 false alarms from automatic fire alarms.

Service engineers at Maquet, which supplies operating theatre and intensive care unit equipment, are now carrying advanced new instrumentation designed to test medical devices both in-service and post-repair in compliance with the new IEC 62353 standard.

Luxo has supplied 286 of its specially designed Air Modular task lights to London’s UCL Cancer Institute, which undertakes “leading edge” research in biomedicine, for use throughout the facility.

LTE can now offer a special secure drying and storage cabinet designed specifically for use with flexible endoscopes.

Designer of secondary glazing systems Selectaglaze has completed a project to provide window protection at Smyth House, part of the St Andrew’s Healthcare residential secure mental health unit in Northampton.

A hard-coated polyester film specially designed to offer anti-microbial protection for hospital surfaces which also offers “industrial strength protection” against solvents and cleaning chemicals and impact and abrasion resistance “above ordinary laminates” is now available from MacDermid Autotype.

NEC Computers now offers a free IT hardware recycling service via which healthcare facilities can have any redundant IT hardware, regardless of brand, and including CRT monitors and other equipment containing hazardous substances, removed from their site free-of-charge.

SFX Parking Post is a new aid from SFX Technologies based on hi-tech flat panel loudspeaker technology designed to help protect parking spaces reserved for disabled drivers, parent or child or other special need groups.

Papworth Hospital is protecting staff from exposure to X-rays using “intelligently-shaped”, lead-free, lightweight shields provided by medical equipment supplier APC Cardiovascular.

South coast commercial engineering company BF Engineering Services says it is set to help hospitals across the country combat cross-contamination by being the UK’s first supplier of machines that effectively clean meal delivery carts.

Miele is offering new washerdisinfectors – the single-cabinet PG 8527 is designed to simplify and speed up the task of reprocessing laboratory glassware, and the PG 8528 is a twodoor barrier wall unit for surgical instruments.

Urmet Domus has introduced a solution for when audio communication is required as part of a door entry system but where it is not possible to install cables.

Dunphy’s new in-house designed touchscreen for its Ratiotronic 6000 digital burner/boiler management system offers “all the functionality of a standard PC, including IP-addressable web access”, giving healthcare engineers the facility for multiple set points.

A British-invented biotechnology device which can reportedly kill MRSA and other bacteria and viruses (including HN51 and C. difficile) on surfaces within an hour by purifying the air “within any enclosed living area”, has received independent test laboratory backing and is now ready for full-scale production.

Healthcare facilities can now calculate instantly the savings in both cost and carbon emissions which could be made by installing Elkay energy management products with the company’s launch of the “carboncalc” hand-held tool.

The latest addition to Rigel’s advanced electrometrical test instrumentation range is a special equipment package for EBME testing in accordance with the new IEC 62353 standard for medical devices.