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Once the threshold on the Weiss Klimatechnik UCV system is set, users can set up a ‘green’, an ‘amber’, and a ‘red’ zone, and if there is any unintended air entrainment, the Continuous Particle Monitoring system will set off a visual and an audible alarm.
connectivity for safety. The company has reported strong domestic sales growth of 30% in the past year, while overseas sales were even stronger – representing 55% of its 2017-2018 turnover. This growth is being fuelled by demand for integrated theatres and it is not just western economies that are investing heavily in smart operating theatre technologies. The company’s intelligent operating
theatre packages have already received significant interest in countries such as India, Dubai, and the UAE, for example. However, the company has observed increasing investment in African countries, in particular. In Uganda, the company recently equipped the operating theatres and ICU at a new 2,500-bed Mulago Hospital in Kampala, which is also seeing a new 350-bed Women & Children’s Hospital constructed in its grounds. These healthcare facilities are being built to an extremely high standard, with Ugandan government funding. For this project the company used its Nigerian partner as the installer to support a large local construction and engineering company, Roko Engineering. The theatre equipment contract alone at Mulago was worth around £1.5 m. The equipment ‘package’ included Medicontrol iTCPs
(intelligent theatre control panels), Quasar eLite theatre lights, Atlas pendants, and PACS equipment. Since launching the intelligent theatre control panels in November 2017, the equipment has been installed in 113 theatres across the world. For surgeons, the intelligent theatre
control panels provide a highly intuitive modern interface – similar in feel to an iPad – with icon-based controls. The technology also offers ‘layers’ of information. A healthcare engineer can work through these for analysis, to verify system settings and to look for faults and alarm reports. It offers the ability to build in any level of detail, including running hospital- specific ‘apps’, allowing intuitive control of the theatre environment. While most ‘intelligent’ theatre control panels run on a Windows PC-based platform, the solution is built around building control technology for the Internet of things (IoT). Building controls are vital for the efficient operation of facilities – any significantly sized commercial building will have at least an HVAC control system, a lighting control system and elevators managed by software. Many large buildings also have access-control systems and are likely have some data
The intelligent theatre control panel integrates with various building management systems, thus connecting the operating theatre to the building, which was until now separate
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analysis solutions to monitor operations. However, these systems are rarely integrated due to the cost and complexity of doing so. Such an engagement requires service contractors to manually connect systems. The intelligent theatre control panel
integrates with various building management systems, thus connecting the operating theatre to the building, which was until now separate. The solution uses Schneider Electric’s intelligent platform for controlling buildings and can link to virtually everything within the building through BACnet, CAN bus, and Modbus, using ‘gold standard’ hardware. The system effectively closes the
communication circuit between the building management system and the operating theatre equipment package, including: medical gas alarms, general and theatre lighting controls, operating light battery back-up alarms, ventilation controls, fire alarms, nurse call alarms, UPS alarms, and temperature and humidity display and control.
Mitra Hospital, India One of the first installations globally was at the Mitra Hospital in Udupi in India’s Karnataka, where the intelligent control panel was installed in seven theatres. Close to the hospital’s actual
commissioning, the company found that the contractors had made all the apertures in the wall for the panels ‘portrait’, rather than the landscape format specified. The company also discovered that the hospital was operating on BACnet, but that specifications had asked for the panels to be programmed for MODBus.
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