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Enhancing surgical workflow in the OR
One of the world’s most technologically advanced children’s hospitals, Alder Hey in the Park has partnered with Sony’s Healthcare Solutions team to build a powerful and easy-to-use, hospital-wide IP video network. High Definition surgical footage can be patched instantly to screens in Alder Hey’s state-of-the-art integrated operating rooms – or shared with surgeons and students anywhere on campus.
Alder Hey in the Park is one of the world’s newest and most technologically innovative teaching hospitals dedicated specifically to the treatment and care of children. Located on the outskirts of Liverpool in the North West of England, the dramatically styled £300m paediatric facility opened its doors in 2015 after a two-year construction project that was funded by the NHS and the Alder Hey Children’s Charity.
Natural daylight, relaxing open spaces and child-friendly design are all hallmarks of Europe’s only hospital in a park that cares for patients from the UK and overseas. Covering over 50,000 square metres, Alder Hey has 270 beds including 48 critical care beds for patients in the ICU, HDU and burns ward. In total, the hospital currently takes care of around 275,000 young people and their families every year.
In this uniquely inspiring space, Sony has
partnered with clinical staff at Alder Hey in the Park to push the boundaries of applying cutting-edge networked AV technologies – their aim: to improve surgical workflow, enhance student teaching, streamline use of hospital resources and ensure improved outcomes for young patients. Alder Hey in the Park enjoys a close relationship with Sony’s Healthcare Solutions team which has worked alongside senior clinical and management teams throughout the unique facility’s gestation. Working in close consultation with Sony, the hospital continues to develop and refine a wide range of cutting-edge networked imaging solutions, including the evaluation and use of 4K video. Playing a key role in the efficiency of medical teaching, today and tomorrow, these innovations will further improve clinical outcomes and patient well-being. State-of-the-art facilities at Alder Hey
include thirteen spacious digitally networked operating rooms (ORs), featuring Sony flat panel medical monitors that allow other surgeons, theatre staff and students right across the hospital campus to view procedures in detail-packed High Definition. Sony planned, delivered and installed the total imaging solution for the OR against a tight schedule to ensure the hospital was fully operational upon opening.
Taking the integrated OR to the next level
The modern operating room is crammed with technology to help surgeons, anaesthetists and support staff perform their tasks with optimum efficiency. However this additional complexity is not without its challenges, explains Dr Simon Kenny, clinical director of surgery at Alder Hey in the Park: “Today we are in an environment where you are working with multiple modalities – endoscopic, laparoscopic, X-ray – and that creates lots of video sources. Until now, every additional application has meant wheeling a new screen into the OR. Rooms were becoming increasingly crowded with lots of equipment, and a lot of it was effectively replicated. Every time you bring in another piece of equipment, you are introducing an extra infection risk – and you are creating a less safe, less ergonomic environment.” For Dr Simon Kenny and the Alder Hey team, there was an obvious opportunity to take the trend towards ‘integrated’ operating rooms to the next level. Dr Harvey Livingstone, consultant paediatric anaesthetist and Dr Simon Kenny together were responsible for writing what was an ambitious brief to commission full theatre integration at Alder Hey. Engaging with Sony Healthcare, the hospital resolved to create a
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