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Integrated digital theatre for Epsom Hospital
A new operating theatre at the Elective Orthopaedic Centre (SWLEOC) at Epsom Hospital features the latest integrated digital theatre technology from Bender UK and Merivaara. SWLEOC is ranked one of the country’s
best elective orthopaedic services facilities. Performing around 5,200 procedures annually, it is one of Europe’s largest orthopaedic centres; the new theatre adds a sixth to the five already in place. The teaching hospital required integrated theatre communication, enabling clinical teams to interact and share video with staff and students in an observation area referred to as ‘the fishbowl’. At the theatre’s heart is the high- capacity Merivaara OpenOR open architecture management system, which integrates operating theatre devices, data, and image management, for rapid display of surgical imagery. OpenOR is connected with surgical lights, monitors, and cameras. Any patient-related media can be stored and managed. Bender elaborated: “OpenOR is a scalable, tailored, and vendor-neutral solution that integrates PACS and hospital systems for patient worklists and data integration.” Video is connected via a simple ‘plug and play’ function. Over IP-based audio and video management capability provides flexible video routing between sources and displays, allowing live procedures to be viewed and streamed outside the theatre.
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Bender UK supplied its new CP924
glass touchscreen theatre control panel, 24 in DICOM-compliant Bender PACS with glass fascia membrane keyboard, and two 55-inch 4K in-wall glass fascia viewing panels. Merivaara Q-Flow LED operating lights with a wireless HD camera were chosen for their ‘best-in- class colour-rendering and optimised airflow, with unique dynamic obstacle compensation to deliver optimum illumination to the surgical site’. The company added: “The lights’ ring-within- a-ring design ensures uninterrupted clean air flow from the canopy – an important requirement for orthopaedic surgery.” Bender UK says it offers ‘an excellent
after-sales capability with full training and familiarisation service’, provided by consultant Steve Coleman, who took the Epsom theatre team through a step-by- step introduction. Ken Macdonald, Electrical Design engineer at the Epsom and St Helier University Hospitals NHS Trust, which
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manages Epsom Hospital, said: “The system is probably the most up-to-date and cutting edge, with the ability to record for training purposes, allowing the consultants to talk to ‘the fishbowl’ during operations. It was delivered with confidence for us as the client. Questions that were asked of Bender during the commission received answers that were exemplary.”
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