SPONSORED BY HEALTH SECTOR NEWS i2i – empowering engineers in theatre settings
Brandon Medical has launched a range of ‘smart, digital solutions’ for embedding in medical and electrical devices to allow automated testing and data collection, to ‘support and empower engineers to mitigate major electrical risks’. Once embedded, the ‘digital solutions’ can be read by engineers via Brandon’s Medicontrol Intelligent Theatre Control Panels, a building energy management system, or stored ‘in a cloud’. The i2i digital solutions were developed by the company’s R&D team in Leeds. Mobile device applications have been designed
to give engineers immediate access to readings.
Brandon Medical says i2i ‘takes further and complements’ the integration of operating theatre equipment provided by its Medicontrol Intelligent Theatre Control Panels. It added: “The operating theatre environment has dramatically changed. Minimally invasive surgery means more equipment has to be integrated, controlled, and managed. It is
now health estates managers’ and engineers’ task to seamlessly and effortlessly integrate these technologies, while ensuring compliance with HTM 06-01 guidance. “Our aim is to empower engineers – by creating a smart operating theatre which uses electronic Internet of Things (IoT) sensors to collect data, and then use the data to manage assets and resources automatically.”
Furniture helps create ‘world-class’ acute hospital
Deanestor has manufactured and installed over 5,000 furniture items in a £1.4 million contract for the new Dumfries and Galloway Royal Infirmary.
Built by Laing O’Rourke, the £212 million hospital was designed by Ryder Architecture with NBBJ. A palette of materials was developed to convey longevity, and ‘to create an uplifting, person-centred, and world-class hospital facility’. Deanestor manufactured over 300 bespoke bedheads finished in a natural oak laminate, with provision for medical gases, electrics, nurse call, and lighting. The bedheads were designed for each room’s specific requirements, with over 40 variations, and installed by Deanestor’s
own team, with removable panels for easy services access.
Deanestor also supplied co-ordinating floor-based fixed furniture, including shelving, cupboards, worktops, and cabinets, and laboratory furniture for chromatography, blood transfusion, histopathology, and microbiology areas. The Trespa benching, supported by powder-coated white steel frames with adjustable feet, was supplied in a range of sizes, in perimeter, peninsular, and ‘island’ configurations.
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