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Joanna Padovano, Reporter | March 13, 2012
From the March 2012 issue of HealthCare Business News magazine
Burton says that most of his customers shopping for refurbished OR lights are initially looking for LEDs, until they discover the cost; at which time they then decide to buy halogens instead.
New products at AORN Congress
During the 2012 Association of periOperative Nurses’ Annual Congress being held in New Orleans March 26-29,TRUMPF is going to launch the TruSystem 7000 mobile general surgical table. As mentioned by Rector, during the development stage of this product, the company collected a significant amount of clinician input for feedback on the design. “When this table is introduced, it is very much going to meet the market needs not because we say so, but because we let the market dictate it; the market says so,” he says.
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Also at this year’s event, Berchtold will introduce the
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Chromophare F Class Surgical Lights, which use 104 customized LEDs and multiples that produce more than 650 overlapping beams in the surgical field, according to Isley. “The F Class Surgical Lights use an energy efficient light source to power the light, while using reflection to create the depth of field and homogenous column of light that LEDs cannot produce on their own,” says James Townsend, Berchtold’s manager of research and development.
Homing in on hybrid ORs
Nowadays, more and more medical facilities are offering hybrid OR solutions.
“More complex procedures, hybrid procedures — involving several medical specialties, each with their own equipment and imaging needs — have given rise to the hybrid OR, where each specialty can perform their part of a complex procedure in a single room with all the products and functions that they would have in their own dedicated specialty room,” says Walt Hoffman, group marketing manager of hybrid OR therapy for MAQUET.
There’s a lot that goes into a hybrid OR installation; for starters, a facility needs to allocate a great deal of space in order to accommodate all of the bulky equipment that it requires. Dick Werner, product manager of vascular X-ray for Toshiba America Medical Systems, says that a hybrid OR is almost always bigger than a conventional OR and that it should be at least 900 square feet in size (traditional ORs are usually around 600 to 800 square feet).
