RECENT PRODUCT NEWS

Operating theatres incorporate a host of expensive equipment that could be damaged or destroyed in the event of fire anywhere within the hospital.

In what it says is the UK’s first 3D integrated operating facility, Olympus has installed two new Endoalpha integrated operating theatres at Aberdeen Royal Infirmary (ARI), both featuring the latest Olympus Evis Exera III surgical endoscopy systems.

Fulbourn Medical has provided its turnkey project expertise by converting and remodelling an existing operating theatre and staff rest area at Sunderland Royal Hospital to a new hybrid vascular theatre.

Starkstrom has added to its product portfolio the ED/ICU (Emergency Department and Intensive Care Unit) patient equipment transfer trolley.

Current projects utilising Medical Air Technology (MAT)’s recently launched ‘revolutionary’ Eco-flow range of energyefficient, ultra-clean ventilation canopies include complete theatre renovations and upgrade programmes.

MTX says its new buildings can incorporate concrete floors, and can be designed with a design life ‘of up to 60 years’.

Karl Storz recently completed work at a new operating theatre complex at Leighton Hospital in Crewe (see also pages 34-36).

As part of an ‘ongoing, flourishing relationship’ with Spire Healthcare, Howorth Air Technology recently refurbished and upgraded three operating theatres at the Spire Manchester Hospital, as part of a larger project by construction, facilities management, and engineering services company, CFES.

Refurbishment and upgrading of operating theatres in both NHS and private hospitals is proving a significant growth area for Bender UK, which offers ‘a totally integrated turnkey service’.

Brandon Medical’s new Quasar eLite operating theatre has been designed and built in the UK ‘by a consortium of some of Britain’s finest engineers and infection control specialists’.

Tetra Consulting is an independent compliance risk management company providing Legionella, Pseudomonas aeruginosa, and asbestos services to NHS hospitals and healthcare Trusts.

Airwave Healthcare will show its latest bedside and in-room patient entertainment ‘for today’s connected hospital’, exhibiting its latest ‘White Healthcare’ television, ‘smart TV’ options, and touchscreens.

Using best practice gained from energy management on over 6,000 healthcare facilities worldwide, Dalkia says it can implement site-wide carbon management strategies that deliver ‘significant cost and carbon reductions’.

Static Systems Group will be inviting Hefma attendees to ‘shape the future’ by commenting on its latest products.

The features and benefits of its ‘cutting edge’ fire detection and emergency lighting solutions will be shown by Hochiki Europe. On show will be a static example of the company’s HFP fire detection system, ‘a complete solution for all fire detection requirements’.

Parking enforcement represents ‘difficult territory’ for healthcare estates teams, according to Workflow Dynamics.

LED lighting specialist, Exled, will show its Stadia 120W high-powered LED floodlight, ‘ideal for areas requiring a high level of illumination’.

Bristan has launched ‘the market’s softest touch timed-flow taps to date’. ‘Ideal’ for healthcare applications, the new soft-touch push-button range requires ‘only a very light touch’ to operate, making the taps ‘especially suitable for use where very young, old, or less able people, are accommodated’.

Ponte Giulio, one of Europe’s largest manufacturers of disabled products for bathrooms, has opened a warehouse and offices in Hove, East Sussex, ‘after over 30 successful years in Europe’.

The Water Management Society promises that its next conference, ‘Fifty Shades of Water Management’, on 16 and 17 June, will be ‘an informative and entertaining two-day event, with presentations and workshops throughout’.