Healthcare Estates Filters offer ‘immediate protection’
A range of single-use water filters that includes cartridges, shower heads, and spouts, will be shown by specialist in sanitary equipment, Delabie. Each Biofil filter has a hollow fibre
Easier staff location
The 08 system from wireless nurse call system specialist, Courtney-Thorne, which will be demonstrated in Manchester, incorporates touchscreen technology featuring ‘instant on-screen’ call message, with a locating facility via ‘unique on screen mapping’, and a call hierarchy that gives emergency calls ‘absolute priority’, as the company puts it, ‘saving vital seconds in what is potentially a critical situation’. All call history information can be viewed instantly, printed, or exported, from a wide range of report types and on- screen graphs. The company added: “This is combined with quick, clean installation, and guaranteed better value than hardwired systems.”
membrane with a filtration threshold of 0.1 micron, absolute rated, ‘delivering microorganism-free water without changing the water’s chemical composition’. Delabie says the filters ‘provide immediate protection’ against waterborne nosocomial infections, such as Legionella and Pseudomonas aeruginosa. The company said: “The filtration
surface is twice as large as on filters that incorporate a folded membrane, with the risk of clogging reduced. Biofil filters for Legionella and Pseudomonas aeruginosa have a maximum lifespan of 62 days,
will withstand thermal and chemical shock treatment, and are easily installable without tools.” Two filter types are available:
Sterile filters ‘for all germs’ (CE medical device class IIb).
Filters for Legionella and Pseudomonas aeruginosa.
Comprehensive clean air solutions
Recent innovations from Medical Air Technology (MAT), which provides clean air technology for the healthcare, manufacturing, and laboratory sectors, include its Screenless UCVS Freeflow ultra-clean ventilation system, ‘setting a new benchmark for the modern operating theatre’. The company said: “High performance
Faster flooring installation
ARDEX, which manufactures high performance tiling and flooring products and systems (photo shows Ardex flooring in the new Institute of Transplantation at the Freeman Hospital, Newcastle), has developed a range of products specifically designed for fast-track installations that ‘minimise downtime and disruption, and ensure a perfect finish every time’. The company said: “ARDEX products,
incorporating the unique ‘Rapidry Formula’ technology, have controlled drying and hardening properties, allowing the product to be walked on, and the installation of the final floorcovering to be completed, in the shortest possible time. Our products offer the ideal solution for environments in use 24 hours-a-day, guaranteeing ‘fast track’ installations, and minimising disruption in hospital wards, theatres, and corridors.”
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functionality and durability help overcome the evolving requirements of theatre design, which increasingly require more space at ceiling level to enable a more flexible choice of equipment.” MAT lay-up cabinets, another recent
addition, are purpose built to provide ‘an extremely high level of cleanliness’. The self-contained cabinets require only a 13 amp power supply, and are ‘ideal’ for
installation within existing conventional theatres, or lay-up preparation rooms requiring extra protection from airborne bacteria. Providing ‘a comprehensive range
of solutions’, mainly for operating theatres, aseptic suites, and containment laboratories,MATmanufactures, supplies, designs, and installs. The company recently moved to a new facility at Trafford Park, Manchester.
Voyage of Discovery
Showcased by Apollo Fire Detectors will be its ‘world-class’ Discovery range of fire detection products. Experts from Apollo will highlight the
many benefits of the Discovery range of analogue addressable fire detectors, designed for medium-to-large applications with specific system requirements. Discovery is, the company says, ‘ideally suited’ to healthcare installations, ‘where adaptability to changing conditions, and protection against unwanted alarms, are paramount’. Discovery detectors can operate in one
of five operating modes, each approved to EN54 standards. Apollo has ‘a long history’ of supplying detectors and other fire detection equipment for large-scale hospital projects, as well as to clinics, pharmacies, and laboratories.
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