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AIRPORT pendants
Where are manufactured the AIRport Booms?
We develop and manufacture all our booms in France, in ‘Le Haillan’ close to Bordeaux.
Can you tell us a little more about your AIRport range?
Steris has a wide range of booms for all needs from operating theatre to ICU’s. Last year saw new products, motorized ones to enrich our ‘classic’ booms (non-motorized). Great number of accessories is there to offer the best convenience of use.
What about the new products?
STERIS is developing new booms, with lower load capacity and less accessories but with the same quality. These booms have to answer to lower level of requirements and lowest budgets.
What are the assets of your booms?
Quality is one of them, for sure! Great possibilities to configure our booms, to be the closest possible to the needs of the medical staff is another one. Moreover, the 120mm diameter of our tubes allow to add or modify any accessory easily and quickly even once the booms installed on the ceiling, so the labour and the maintenance costs are reduced. The AIRport load capacity authorizes to carry very heavy equipments. The list of assets is long, we invite you to visit us to go into details.
About the maintenance, do you provide it yourself?
In France the maintenance is provided by Air Liquide which is our dealer or by Steris in few cases. For foreign countries, either Steris or our dealers are approved to provide this service.
We remarked that the height of shelves and drawers can’t be adjusted by the medical stall. Why?
This handling can be dangerous especially when heavy loads are placed on them. We think that approved technicians only are authorized to do this. The medical staff has other captivating tasks...
We develop and manufacture all our booms in France, in ‘Le Haillan’ close to Bordeaux.
The AIRport booms are rather new, launching in 2010 as far as we know. Why did you want to penetrate this market?
Our objective is to enlarge our product portfolio which was already containing tables and lights. We are still developing new products...Some of our engineers have more than 15 years experience on booms, Steris is then not really a new actor in this market...
Can you tell us a little more about your AIRport range?
Steris has a wide range of booms for all needs from operating theatre to ICU’s. Last year saw new products, motorized ones to enrich our ‘classic’ booms (non-motorized). Great number of accessories is there to offer the best convenience of use.
What about the new products?
Steris is developing new booms, with lower load capacity and less accessories but with the same quality. These booms have to answer to lower level of requirements and lowest budgets.
What are the assets of your booms?
Quality is one of them, for sure! Great possibilities to configure our booms, to be the closest possible to the needs of the medical staff is another one. Moreover, the 120mm diameter of our tubes allow to add or modify any accessory easily and quickly even once the booms installed on the ceiling, so the labour and the maintenance costs are reduced. The AIRport load capacity authorizes to carry very heavy equipments. The list of assets is long, we invite you to visit us to go into details.
About Detergents / Instrument Cleaning Chemistries
I see a range of PROLYSTICA 2X Concentrate and a range of PROLYSTICA Ultra Concentrate products. What are the differences ?
These two ranges of products differ in their concentrations. Whereas the 2X Concentrate products are 2 times more concentrated than traditional products, the Ultra Concentrated are 10 times more concentrated ! The use also is different, as the 2 times range is for both manual and automated use, whereas the Ultra Concentrate range is for automated (i.e. in washer-disinfectors) use only.
What is the interest of oxidative chemistries for High-Level Disinfection of endoscopes ?
Oxydative chemistries have shown good ability to prevent and remove biofilm. Therefore your process is safer for your patients and staffs.
Surgical lighting
Is the XLED design simply a stylistic effect?
No, although the design of the range is the result of a design contest between several design agencies. Many technical requirements were set:
- “Open” shape, adapted to laminar flow constraints
- Modularity of optical solutions, in order to comply with the entire range of 4 different light heads
- Orientation of the light sources towards the spat (the LEDs are positioned on a 1-meter sphere centered on the area to be lit)
- Possibility to adjust the pattern size (Wavelens® patent)
- Easy-to-clean light heads
Notwithstanding this, the importance of design for a surgical light should not be minimized. A surgical light gives an OR its “finishing touch” and sets the atmosphere. It is also the last image patients see before being put to sleep, and surgeons like to pose in front of their surgical light. It is therefore essential that the surgical light be considered beautiful.
Is color temperature adjustment a better technology for surgical lights?
Creating white light by mixing 3 color sources was invented by the Scot James Clerk Maxwell in 1861.
The first surgical lights with LEDs were introduced in 2004, when there was no other alternative to create white light.
Despite its commercial success, this specific technology still presents a number of drawbacks:
- It is difficult to obtain a homogeneous and stable light spot in all situations (chromatic aberrations, color temperature variations depending on the obstruction of beams)
- It is difficult to predict how the light will evolve over time (which LEDs will fade at which pace, change in color temperature)
The production of white LEDs as substitutes for traditional light sources (halogen, discharge lamps…) is the current trend, with constant improvements being made in this field.
Is shadow reduction linked to the size of a light head?
Yes, but not only since the arrival of the LED technology.
Shadow reduction is achieved by numerous light beams of different incidence angles, all reaching the same area on the light pattern. With previous lighting technologies, the larger the light head, the greater the shadow reduction.
With the LED technology, each LED distributed in the light head lights the entire spot. Therefore, 3 aspects must be taken into consideration:
- The emitting power of each LED, as they can have different settings, or very different intensities if they are of different colors;
- The emission angle from the light head axis (depending therefore on the light head size)
- The number of LEDs in the light head (as these light sources will add up in the light spot)
To achieve shadow reduction, it is important to prefer large light heads, with many LEDs, all lighting with the same intensity.
One of the great advantages of the XLED light heads in this respect is the size and shape of the light heads: they can be placed cleverly in order to limit the surgeon’s head from blocking the LEDs. This cannot be done with circular light heads.
Why does STERIS offer only surgical lights with LED technology (and no halogen lights)?
The first LED surgical lights were launched in 2005 and have revolutionized the worldwide market ever since. Recent market analysis predicts LED lights will have completely replaced the halogen lighting technology in the next 2-3 years.
STERIS’ main goal is to provide useful innovation to its customers. Due to the many benefits of LED surgical lights, STERIS decided to direct its surgical lighting portfolio towards LED lights exclusively.
The benefits of LED lights include:
- Minimal heating of the surgical site, improving both surgeon and surgical staff comfort and patient safety
- Brighter intensity
- Improved shadow control
- More accurate color rendition
- Less maintenance requirements than halogen lights (LEDs usually do not require any replacement during the life span of the surgical light)
- Longer life span (at least 40 000 hours with the latest LEDs)
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