SPONSORED BY HEALTH SECTOR NEWS Milestone for critical care at Musgrove Park
A ‘major milestone’ has been reached in a key project to transform and modernise critical care and assessment buildings and services at Musgrove Park Hospital in Taunton.
Main construction works on a new acute assessment hub due for completion in early 2022, that will include a new three-storey building for the therapies department, have now begun. Somerset NHS Foundation Trust, which runs the hospital, is one of 21 organisations expected to benefit from the DHSC’s latest hospital building programme, with potential funding of £450 m. The next steps in its ambitious plan –
‘Musgrove 2030’ – will include a new maternity and children’s building, and further development of its cancer and emergency services. This is in addition to the plans for a new surgical centre, acute assessment hub, therapies department, and maternity refurbishments at the hospital.
Designed by BDP’s South West team, and being delivered by contractor, Kier, the acute assessment hub will include an admission hub for patients requiring admission to hospital for additional care, and a unit for patients needing emergency treatment deliverable on the same day. The current surgical
admissions unit is located in World War II ‘Nightingale’-style ward accommodation ‘unsuitable for modern standards of care’, and some distance from the surgical operating theatres. In the future, it will be included in the acute assessment hub, adjacent to the emergency department.
Integrated theatre AV solutions added to portfolio
Integrated theatre AV technology has been added to the extensive portfolio of hospital solutions offered by Bender UK. The complete Merivaara OpenOR system is exclusively supplied and installed by Bender UK in the UK and Ireland. The technology enables complete integration of all medical devices and image sources within the theatre environment, and displays all images at near-zero latency (guaranteed at less than one frame) without resolution loss. Merivaara OpenOR also allows procedures to be viewed and streamed outside the operating theatre, enabling clinicians and students to consult and view live surgeries from other locations. Bender UK said: “This intuitive system has a user-friendly touchscreen interface
which allows control of image routing, medical device control, and live streaming, plus remote surgeon access to live and stored images, image capture, and video recording and editing. The medical grade touchscreen can be positioned in the sterile environment, wall, or desk mount. It
also enables PiP and PaP on displays that do not have those features.”
Vendor-neutral, the OpenOR does not limit the connection of image sources from specific manufacturers, including mobile devices brought into theatre. It connects to the Hospital Information System and PACS for patient worklists and data integration.
Gareth Brunton, managing director of Bender UK, said: “The backbone of the technology is a fibre-based Barco Nexxis infrastructure which allows OpenOR to display uncompressed video for perfect images without artefacts or resolution loss with near-zero latency. The resolution that OpenOR works with is also future-proofed to 8K and beyond; the system is currently HD, 3D, 4K, and 4K3D compatible.”
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