RECENT PRODUCT NEWS

As one of the global market-leaders in both healthcare and lighting, Philips Lighting, part of Royal Philips Electronics, says it understands “that there are complex challenges being faced within the hospital environment each day; none more so than in the Estates Department”.

BeaconMedæs and Atlas Copco have developed what they claim is “the market’s highest specification medical air plant” – mAir, incorporating the new dMED Dryer System, GA-MED VSD compressor, and ES-MED Controller.

Alongside providing data on other trials from around the world, Antimicrobial Copper will be highlighting the initial results from a multi-site, Department of Defense-funded clinical US trial.

Visitors to the ArjoHuntleigh UK stand can discover more about the Pressalit range of adjustable washbasins, showers, seats, benches, and grab rails. The company said: “One simple installation and the wall track is in place.

Static Systems Group will show, for the first time, several exciting advances for its Fusion-IP nurse call system, including “a major breakthrough in real-time location systems (RTLS)”.

Bender, which says its isolated power and uninterruptible power systems are relied upon “to provide a safe, secure power supply in the most critical clinical areas”.

Single use pulp bedpan disposal specialist, Haigh, will exhibit the SOLO, and award-winning Panaway, from its Sluicemaster range.

An “intelligent” window control package that can be fully integrated within its building energy management systems to maximise natural ventilation’s benefits has been introduced by Trend Control Systems.

Many hospitals are already enjoying significant energy savings by swapping old hot water storage systems for technology that delivers hot water on demand. Spirax Sarco says its EasiHeat system can typically cut energy use by 6-10 %, while also freeing up valuable maintenance time, and being eligible for Government funding.

According to Starkstrom, MRI (magnetic resonance imaging) is 'arguably the greatest advance in diagnostic medical techniques to have taken place in the last century'.

Portable computing and data collection hardware specialist Socket Mobile says that, with the discontinuation of the popular Hewlett-Packard HP iPAQ 200 PDA, a device widely used in healthcare facilities for functions such as transmitting patient records and data to colleagues, and paging.

BeaconMedæs and Atlas Copco have jointly developed what they claim is “the market’s highest specification medical air plant” – mAir, incorporating the new dMED Dryer System, GA-MED VSD compressor, and ES-MED Controller.

Douglas Delabie’s latest electronic wall-mounted tap features a BIOCLIP spout with fixed and removable options for mounting on panels under 20 mm thick. The spout is easily removed for disinfection.

A Next Control Systems monitoring system, one of the largest “packages” supplied by the company yet, is being installed across several facilities run by one of London’s leading private hospital groups.

C-TEC has launched a “universal” antibacterial wipe-clean pull cord pack. The NCP-13 contains two triangular bangles, a red fixing “bullet”, and three metres of “a revolutionary red vinylencapsulated cord with integral properties to help fight spread of infections such as MRSA, E. coli, C. difficile, S. aureus, and norovirus”.

Fire detection and emergency lighting system specialist, Hochiki Europe, has published a free A6-sized guide to BS5266, the code of practice for emergency lighting.

Connexion2 is now offering a free-touse product designed to improve upon traditional “Buddy”or call-back systems that it says enables effective colleague-to-colleague communication via a website.

With lasers well established in many areas of medicine and surgery, many healthcare facilities now use laser interlock systems to ensure automatic laser beam shut-off if safety doors, covers, or blinds, are opened in, say, an operating theatre environment.

ARM says hospitals fitting its new HTM-compliant wireless nurse call units will benefit from fast installation, “with minimal dust and disruption to the ward”, while stressing that such radio-based equipment offers “unlimited flexibility to modify and extend a system”

Zip Heaters has expanded its Hydroboil Plus on-wall boiling water system range to offer larger capacities of up to 40 litres. The new 10, 15, 25, and 40 litre units “offer users of larger capacity instant boiling water systems the energy-saving advantages associated with the existing Hydroboil Plus range”.