RECENT PRODUCT NEWS

Specialist Alarm Services’ “Red Alert” staff attack system provides staff with a small, lightweight transmitter with which to unobtrusively alert other staff to a possible “heated situation” or physical violence.

The Pilgrim Hospital in Boston, Lincolnshire is benefiting from the completion of what United Lincolnshire Hospitals NHS Trust says is one of the UK’s largest, most successful biomass heating projects (HEJ –September 2010) yet.

IceWatch UK says that, “due to the unpredictability of British weather, many organisations are finding effective management of the risks of ice, frost, and snow, increasingly difficult to achieve in-house”.

Flexible “architectural systems” solutions offered by Dräger Medical are said to allow client healthcare organisations to customise their workplace design to specifically suit clinical care processes.

Lorne Stewart Healthcare Services provides both residential estates maintenance and mobile engineer operations across multiple engineering disciplines to both the NHS and private sectors, and can also manage new project works – from design to completion.

A retailer which claims its “stylish and original” fashion outlets “brighten up hospitals UK-wide” makes its exhibition debut. The company, StockShop, said:

Helping users get the most from their Trend building energy management systems will be a key theme on the Trend Controls stand.

As one of the global market-leaders in both healthcare and lighting, Philips Lighting, part of Royal Philips Electronics, says it understands “that there are complex challenges being faced within the hospital environment each day; none more so than in the Estates Department”.

BeaconMedæs and Atlas Copco have developed what they claim is “the market’s highest specification medical air plant” – mAir, incorporating the new dMED Dryer System, GA-MED VSD compressor, and ES-MED Controller.

Alongside providing data on other trials from around the world, Antimicrobial Copper will be highlighting the initial results from a multi-site, Department of Defense-funded clinical US trial.

Visitors to the ArjoHuntleigh UK stand can discover more about the Pressalit range of adjustable washbasins, showers, seats, benches, and grab rails. The company said: “One simple installation and the wall track is in place.

Static Systems Group will show, for the first time, several exciting advances for its Fusion-IP nurse call system, including “a major breakthrough in real-time location systems (RTLS)”.

Bender, which says its isolated power and uninterruptible power systems are relied upon “to provide a safe, secure power supply in the most critical clinical areas”.

Single use pulp bedpan disposal specialist, Haigh, will exhibit the SOLO, and award-winning Panaway, from its Sluicemaster range.

An “intelligent” window control package that can be fully integrated within its building energy management systems to maximise natural ventilation’s benefits has been introduced by Trend Control Systems.

Many hospitals are already enjoying significant energy savings by swapping old hot water storage systems for technology that delivers hot water on demand. Spirax Sarco says its EasiHeat system can typically cut energy use by 6-10 %, while also freeing up valuable maintenance time, and being eligible for Government funding.

According to Starkstrom, MRI (magnetic resonance imaging) is 'arguably the greatest advance in diagnostic medical techniques to have taken place in the last century'.

Portable computing and data collection hardware specialist Socket Mobile says that, with the discontinuation of the popular Hewlett-Packard HP iPAQ 200 PDA, a device widely used in healthcare facilities for functions such as transmitting patient records and data to colleagues, and paging.

BeaconMedæs and Atlas Copco have jointly developed what they claim is “the market’s highest specification medical air plant” – mAir, incorporating the new dMED Dryer System, GA-MED VSD compressor, and ES-MED Controller.

Douglas Delabie’s latest electronic wall-mounted tap features a BIOCLIP spout with fixed and removable options for mounting on panels under 20 mm thick. The spout is easily removed for disinfection.