OPERATING THEATRE TECHNOLOGY
Capabilities enhanced and refined The Medicontrol iTCP was launched in 2019, but Brandon Medical has been adding new features ever since. Graeme Hall said: “First and foremost, we have striven to build into it the flexibility to cater for changes in equipment specification over time. For example, when plans for a new hospital are drawn up, the equipment to be incorporated in its theatres, and that equipment’s configuration, may well not have been decided upon. The iTCP is thus designed in such a way that we can build in whatever controls a hospital or its surgeons require over time via configuration of the software. This means that mechanical engineers can design the hospital based on the surgical needs identified during the project. In turn, if the configuration of a particular theatre, or the equipment within it, changes significantly over, say, a 4-5-year period, the iTCP can still cater for it. Say, for example, that the theatre is initially designed with two lighting circuits, but the surgeons later decide they require three. Here we would simply re-programme the device and incorporate an extra control. We can also tailor the iTCP to operate with any manufacturer’s equipment.”
Two GUIs Nigel Davill added: “Equally, because iTCP uses BMS hardware, an Estates and Facilities engineer will easily get to grips with operating it. The panel, which has considerable ‘intelligence’ built in, has two graphical use interfaces – one designed for use by surgeons and other clinical personnel, and the other for engineering / estates personnel. Built in are numerous configurable pages.” Many hospitals, of course, now require
Brandon says it offers ‘a one-week turnover for the only UK-manufactured operating theatre lights’.
audio and visual equipment integrated into their theatres. “Again, however,” said Graeme Hall, “the early ‘spec’ may simply refer to a requirement for medical AV system integration. In this scenario, the ideal is to be able to cater for any future medical audio / video system so that, once installed, it can ‘communicate’ with all internal and external sources as required, and transfer all the data and take all the picture sources and display units to connect them all together through a control.”
Pre-configured video network To enable this, Brandon Medical offers a pre-engineered, pre-configured, video network that will fit any operating theatre,
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and can be controlled by a video controller like the company’s Entoli system, or, alternatively, by the iTCP. Graeme Hall said: “The operating theatre’s walls, ceilings, floors, and finish, can thus all be completed, with all the required node points and fibre optic connections put in place ready for the engineers to connect up to the medical AV system at the appropriate juncture. As with the iTCP,” he told me, “it is all about anticipating what the healthcare sector might need not just today, but in 5-10 years’ time, as hospitals become ever ‘smarter’, and using our engineering expertise to deliver the required functionality in as seamless, flexible, and powerful, a way as we can.”
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