THEATRE AND ICU TECHNOLOGY – IHEEM BRANCH EVENT


Joanna Tolputt and Dan McNeilage, Business Development Managers, providing an introduction to Dräger Medical UK.


outcomes by optimising workflows’. A key consideration for the NHP, and hospital refurbishment design, is the ability to ‘flex’ healthcare spaces rapidly to meet the demands of changing healthcare needs, reducing risk and providing a better place to work. In addition to medical supply systems and lights, Dräger also supplies patient monitoring, connected technologies, anaesthesia, and ventilation and warming therapy devices for acute care. During the presentation, the Dräger speakers provided an overview of its 3D Tool, which assists clinicians and designers to visualise workspace design.


Improving critical care environments Dräger explained that its Ambia medical supply units, which were also covered, ‘reduce risk in the clinical area, enabling devices to be mounted to the pendant column, providing a clear ergonomic, patient-centric, working environment’. Different arm length lifters and column sizes can be customised to fit within the environment and pivot around the patient. Dräger says: “The Ambia system’s innovative mounting concept is designed so that changes to the workplace can be quickly and easily adapted to changing clinical needs. Its curved edge design aids the cleaning process, and thus ensures more safety against infections in the acute workplace. The numerous colour designs and lighting options allow family- integrated care, helping to create a healing patient environment that has been shown to improve patient outcomes.” Connecting medical technologies can


revolutionise care, Dräger says – one of many advantages being better-informed treatment decisions with the help of comprehensive patient data. The company said: “Patient monitoring alarms play a vital role in protecting patients in intensive care units by alerting clinicians, enabling them to respond to time-critical changes


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Dräger provided an overview of its 3D Tool, which assists clinicians and designers to visualise workspace design.


in a patient’s condition. However, the sheer number of acoustic alarms can be stressful and overwhelming, leading to sensory overload, resulting in desensitisation to alarms and alarm fatigue – potentially missing important alarms.” Dräger continued: “The noise in an ICU


environment can also lead to patients developing delirium. Over 30% of patients treated in ICUs become confused or develop delirium, leading to longer patient recovery times, and requiring increased input from caregivers. Standard ICUs recorded noise levels above 45 dBA at all times, over the 35 dBA suggested by the World Health Organization”. David McNeilage and Joanna Tolputt explained that one study had suggested that 771 alarms may occur on average per day in each ICU bed. More than 80% of all alarms were found in the research to be’ clinically irrelevant’, with 50% ‘not even noticed’ (Source: AAMI Foundation 2012). Dräger said: “Effective alarm management in critical care environments enables you to systematically reduce noise pollution for patients and staff to an acceptable level – this has particular significance in neonatal units. Alarm management reduces risk of harm to patients by ensuring that the right person is alerted to important alarms with the right priority.” Dräger collaborates with Ascom for an integrated alarm distribution solution – via the sending of alerts from the Dräger patient monitors and ventilators via the Distributed Information System (DIS) to a caregiver via mobile handheld device. The two Dräger speakers explained


that an estimated 50 petabytes of data are generated by hospitals per year – associated with clinical notes, lab tests, medical images, sensor readings, genomics, and operational and financial data. Currently, 97% of this data goes unused (Source: World Economics Forum, Dec 2019).


A key consideration for the New Hospital Programme, and hospital refurbishment design, is the ability to ‘flex’ healthcare spaces rapidly to meet the demands of changing healthcare needs, reducing risk and providing a better place to work


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Medical device interoperability The two speakers went on to explain that ISO/IEEE 11073 SDC is ‘a revolutionary new open standard that enables connectivity across medical devices for bi-directional and secure interoperability’. Dräger says: “Acute care in hospitals looks after patients in critical health conditions. Doctors and nurses have to make quick decisions under rapidly changing conditions to keep patients safe. Data from point-of- care medical devices has the potential to help them make decisions and optimise their workflows. However, proprietary protocols hinder the open transfer of data between medical devices from different manufacturers. SDC (Service-oriented Device Connectivity) is a new international ISO/IEEE standard that enables interoperability between point-of-care medical devices, and the exchange of data between these devices and HL7-compliant hospital information systems. SDC enables a hospital’s medical technologies to exchange data and information bidirectionally and securely in a dynamic system to improve the capabilities of caregivers in acute care settings.” David Head, head of Safety Marketing,


provided an overview to attendees of Dräger’s Safety offering, which includes: n Respiratory. n Fixed and mobile gas detection. n Area monitoring. n Clearance checks. n Smart solutions. n Impairment. n Training. n Engineered solutions n Rental. n Servicing.


A little more detail on some of these follows:


Fixed gas detection: Fixed gas and flame detection systems are designed to provide an early warning of potential gas leaks and fire hazards. These detectors are strategically installed in high-risk areas, and are linked to a control unit, tasked with issuing warnings during incidents, or further interfacing with other systems. This ensures timely actions, whether it’s emergency evacuation, ventilation, or shutdown.


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