Lighting round-up Bespoke system for hospital
Brandon Medical has recently equipped operating theatres 1, 4, and 5 at Huddersfield Royal Infirmary with its ‘most advanced theatre technology’, including its Quasar eLite operating light on a duo structure.
The Quasar eLite ‘provides surgeons with intense, high quality lighting, enabling them to maximise accuracy during surgical procedures’. Brandon added: “This reduces eye strain and fatigue to enhance the surgeon’s concentration.” Huddersfield Royal Infirmary (HRI) opened in 1965, and is the specialist centre for emergency, planned complex, and paediatric surgery, for the people of Huddersfield and Calderdale. The hospital is currently undertaking a comprehensive theatre refurbishment project involving six theatres, which includes installing improved lighting, ‘integrated systems, and interactive controls’.
In addition to featuring the Brandon
Quasar eLite lighting, the theatres incorporate the company’s multi-movement, single-sided Atlas pendants. Brandon said: “Centralising services and equipment using our Atlas pendant systems provides a flexible solution for surgical and intensive care units – some of the most complex and demanding areas of a hospital. Future access for servicing is also improved, reducing maintenance downtime over the lifespan of the pendant.” Brandon also supplied surgeons’ control panels, and an ‘information wall’ incorporating two Symposia CoPax viewers and a touchscreen ‘mimic panel membrane’.
Energy-efficient and versatile
Daray says it is increasingly being called upon to provide energy-efficient LED lighting to operating theatres around the country.
The company said: “Our LED operating theatre lights deliver significant energy, cost, and carbon savings, and offer greatly improved performance.” A recent installation saw Daray’s Dual-head SL750 LED operating lights installed within the Day Surgery Theatre at Uckfield General Hospital in East Sussex. The company said: “A British manufacturer, we work side by side with our NHS and private partners to develop outstanding products that provide lower total cost of ownership and substantial energy savings, along with state-of-the-
art solutions in lighting design and infection control management.” The ‘stand-out model’ in Daray’s range, the SL700 Series, boasts a focusable, variable intensity beam ‘with excellent shadow reduction and accurate colour rendering’, and adjustable colour temperature. The company added: “We are pioneers in LED technology within the clinical environment, and with features like variable intensity and advanced colour rendering, our products offer exceptional, accurate performance, alongside low running and ownership costs.”
A wide range of standard mounting options extends the lights’ flexibility.
‘Professional approach’ praised
Bender UK is ‘a leading supplier and maintenance provider of IPS, UPS and operating theatre equipment, including LED lighting, pendants, and touchscreen control panels’. Bender’s critical care solutions are widely used throughout the UK, at hospitals including Alder Hey in the Park, Queen Elizabeth Hospital Glasgow, Queen Elizabeth Hospital Woolwich, Colchester General Hospital, and Furness General Hospital.
Installing advanced surgical lighting technology improves operating environments for surgeons and patients, says Bender UK’s surgical lighting specialist, national clinical sales consultant, Steve Coleman. He explained:
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“The benefits of LED surgical operating lights include daylight quality light output, perfect colour, red and skin rendering, reduced running costs, maximum deep cavity illumination, wide range light field diameter, and better heat management to reduce fatigue.” Pictured is Sandra Martin,
Anaesthetics, Theatre and Endoscopy Service manager at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital Woolwich, who said: “We experienced a number of issues with the originally installed operating theatre lights. The medical team trialled Bender’s mobile LED unit over the course of a week across a range of cases – from complex orthopaedics, trauma, and gynaecology, to more minor day surgery procedures.
Powerful, flexible LED luminaire
The new LHH LED from Glamox Luxo is ‘a natural development’ of the company’s original medical examination luminaire, ‘in daily use by medical professionals all over the world’.
The company said: “LHH is designed especially for demanding viewing conditions requiring exceptionally good light, such as medical examinations and minor procedures. The covered spring-balanced arm simplifies cleaning and safe and easy positioning. The arm’s flexibility and precision mean LHH can be positioned exactly where the light is required. The LHH is also fully dimmable.” LHH is made of powder-coated metal, such as aluminium and steel, with the light source covered with tempered glass. The luminaire has a SteriTouch antimicrobial powder coating, to prevent the growth of bacteria, biofilm, and mould. LHH is approved as a medical device in accordance with IEC/EN 60601-1 Medical electrical equipment – Part 1: General requirements for basic safety and essential performance, and IEC/EN 60601-1-2, Electromagnetic compatibility – requirements and tests. A version with adjustable colour temperature is also available. Glamox Luxo said: “LHH’s LEDs are extremely energy-efficient, and have a life span of 50,000 hours or more. The powerful LED module has an excellent light output, giving more than 24,000 lux at 1 m.”
The main benefits reported were the ease of use, reliable colour temperature, and the lightheads’ high lux level, yet compact overall footprint. We were also very impressed with the Bender team’s professional approach.”
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