OPERATING THEATRES ARTICLES

Operating theatres are high-risk spaces and are therefore tightly controlled, and demand the highest standards of sterility. Yet one vital element of safety is too often underestimated – the air itself. Sanathoi Bachaspatimayum, Marketing & PR assistant at Smart Air UK, explores why filtration must sit alongside ventilation as a core safeguard for patients and staff.

Starkstrom, the specialist in clinical infrastructure for hospitals and other healthcare facilities, has recently opened a new demonstration and training facility at its Syston headquarters in Leicestershire. Here clinicians can interact with the latest advanced infrastructure and operating theatre technologies within a dedicated environment that showcases how these solutions can be integrated into the healthcare space. Louise Frampton, the editor of HEJ’s sister publication, The Clinical Services Journal, reports.

Last October, Reinsberg Group, the medtech holding of Prague-based private equity firm, BHM Group, acquired a majority stake in Brandon Medical – as part of its strategy to build a strong group of independent European medical manufacturers. Simultaneously, Brandon unveiled ‘a bold rebrand’.

On 14 March, as part of an IHEEM North-West Branch event, members were given an exclusive pre-launch tour of what the two Company Affiliates who have jointly established the facility – MIG Medical and Dräger Medical – say is ‘a ground-breaking’ Healthcare Innovation Centre, at Union House, Altrincham. Subjects covered in the day’s accompanying presentations included technology’s part in enhancing clinical care, effective alarm management in critical care settings, a new open standard that enables connectivity across medical devices, and regulations for working at height and in confined spaces. HEJ reports.