British manufacturer, Daray, says its LED operating theatre lights and minor surgical fixtures deliver significant energy, cost, and carbon savings, and ‘greatly improved performance’, combined with excellent build quality.
The company said: “Using the correct lighting during surgery is imperative, hugely impacting on factors including productivity, fatigue, and visual acuity. Following suggestions from many customers, we have upgraded the popular SL730 surgical light to include an important new feature – Variable Colour Temperature.
“The colour temperature of a light source is an important consideration for surgical use,” Daray added. “Colours are conventionally expressed in Kelvin (K), with those over 5,000 K higher on the Kelvin scale and known as ‘cool’ colours, and those of a lower value ‘warm’ colours. Visually, a higher value gives the appearance of ‘blueish-white’ – providing the truest tissue colour rendition. A value at the scale’s lower end gives an appearance of ‘warm’ tones – useful in surgery for accurate tissue differentiation.”
The new SL730VC sits alongside Daray’s SL430 and SL720 surgical lights range, themselves smaller, compact versions of the ‘much larger’ SL400 Series and SL700 Series lighting ranges. All models boast an even, shadow-free light patch and minimum 40,000 hour LED lifecycle, plus ‘excellent depth of illumination’, autoclavable handles, and variable light intensity.
