Integrated technology is setting the standard for operating rooms in the UK, and is now being used at the St John & St Elizabeth Hospital in London within a new £35 million wing containing six theatres equipped and project managed by Bender UK.
Technology elements include clinical equipment, audio and video communication, environmental, clean air ventilation, and lighting controls, and data retrieval and display systems. For Bender UK, an added dimension to this rapidly evolving equation is ensuring the resilience of the integrated operating theatre with Medical IT no-fail critical power systems and UPS (Uninterruptible Power Supply) battery back-up systems.
The Estates team at St John & St Elizabeth Hospital has also chosen to employ Bender UK’s Residual Current Monitoring (RCM) system to add extra resilience in the new wing – by providing live data on the status of the electrical supply for room lighting systems.
Bender UK said: “The ultimate integrated theatre is forged by linking the complex elements employing Merivaara’s OpenOR open architecture Digital Image Management System. It is designed to integrate operating theatre devices, data, and image management, and offer seamless, latency-free image routing, image capture, and video recording.”
PACS and hospital IT systems are integrated for patient worklists, and because the system is vendor-neutral, it does not limit the connection of image sources from other manufacturers. Theatres’ AV systems link to a video conference room and co-ordinator suite for remote viewing and consultation on surgical procedures, with live two-way audio, and images can also be live streamed via the internet. To learn more about integrated theatres, visit www.bender-uk.com
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