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Software to help hospitals with ‘soaring oxygen demand’


Software development ‘market-leader’, GlobalView Systems, has jointly developed with IHEEM ‘innovative new software’ to help hospitals manage the increasing need for oxygen as they battle with the COVID-19 emergency. Free to use, the software has been developed in line with Department of Health & Social Care guidance, and incorporates design parameters used in a variety of NHS environments, including the Nightingale field hospitals. Its development follows an NHS England letter sent to all hospitals in England on 31 March requesting they ‘take action’ to prevent their oxygen supplies running short because of heavy demand. The software has two key elements – the first an IHEEM O2


Medical Gas Flow


Rate Assessment Tool, which gives the ability to assess current piped oxygen gas demand, and allows data manipulation, e.g. simulating the effects of varying the quantity of ventilators, helping hospitals explore likely scenarios incorporating the recommended diversified flow levels as set out by the Critical Care National Medical Director for England. The second element – a Cylinder Gas Monitor and


Usage Tool (with hospitals having been asked to consider reducing their piped medical oxygen consumption for ‘less critical departments’), enables the hospital to simply and quickly


understand its current exposure, and explore the impact of potential COVID-19 scenarios. Estates teams can also identify high usage areas, and set thresholds for minimum stock rates to ensure optimal cylinder use.


Walsall Manor Hospital’s Estates & Facilities team was among the first users, when the team sought ‘a simple but effective solution’ to manage and predict the hospital’s cylinder gas levels, which could be rapidly deployed utilising its existing Microsoft software. GlobalView provided it with software that features a real-time dashboard with an at-a-glance view of current stock levels, which departments have the largest demand, and week-on-week trends to help plan for future demand.


To find out more, and download the templates, visit: https://www.iheem.org.uk/ News/covid-19-iheem-ifhe-ifhe-eu- worldwide-update-issue-2, or myporterlogistics.com


High availablity and power efficiency


Healthcare estates need highly available, extremely efficient power for their clinical, administrative, and emergency services.


Kohler Uninterruptible Power (KUP) provides ‘highly efficient power protection systems’, including UPS, generators, and emergency lighting inverters. The company said: “Our solutions range from modular three- phase UPS with certified class-leading efficiency, like the PowerWAVE 8000 and 9250DPA, through standalone models and compact single-phase UPS, to models especially designed to handle regenerative loads from lifts. Our innovative EL inverters include performance-kitemarked


standalone and scalable modular units, and large and small generator packages designed to meet tough reliability, noise, and efficiency demands.” ‘Whether for a GP’s surgery, or a large hospital’, KUP says it can supply tailored installations or complete ‘no- break’ solutions with bespoke generator packages, complemented by a national support network of personnel ‘with a deep technical knowledge and genuine desire to help’.


Contact-free temperature


measuring benefits Cardiff hospital


With it having become increasingly important to control the coronavirus’s spread by monitoring key symptoms, such as a fever, Cardiff-based multi- brand security equipment distributor, Oprema, and partner, video surveillance specialist, Dahua Technology, have donated a thermal imaging solution which can automatically detect a person’s temperature in under a second, without the need for personal contact, to reduce the risk to the key workers undertaking manual monitoring at the Welsh capital’s University Hospital Llandough.


Oprema said: “At many hospitals currently, frontline key workers use a handheld infrared thermometer to measure people’s temperatures as they enter, but this means getting very close to the potentially infected person. These manual checks are also very time-consuming.”


The Dahua Thermal Solution has a claimed accuracy of +/– 0.3˚C, and eliminates the need for handheld thermometers, reducing staff risk, and speeding up patient entry. Oprema said: “By combining the latest CCTV and thermal temperature measurement technology, the system can automatically detect if a person has a higher-than-normal body temperature, and can screen individuals or larger groups simultaneously. Using a handheld forehead thermometer to measure the temperatures of 5,000 people would take over four hours. With the Dahua Thermal Solution – which can measure three people per second – measuring 5,000 people takes just 30 minutes.”


The system donated has been installed in the Trauma & Orthopaedics Department at University Hospital Llandough. Should somebody enter the space with a high temperature, an alarm sounds as an indication they are potentially carrying a virus, and should be checked by a medical professional.


14 Health Estate Journal June 2020


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