RECENT PRODUCT NEWS

Hospitals, long-term care facilities, clinics and other healthcare service providers emphasise hand hygiene as the primary way to prevent infection. However, low compliance and increased risk of infection occurs due to:

HAIGH will be exhibiting its SOLO and Panaway waste disposal solutions. As a supplier of Sluicemasters to PFI hospital projects in the UK, the company understands the need for expert advice, technical support and excellent service back up.

INTENSIVE DEEP CLEAN SYSTEMS (IDCS), the specialised healthcare deep cleaning division of cleaning contractor CK Group, will be demonstrating the advances achieved in infection prevention and control.

The new EnCompass hygiene monitoring intelligence program is the latest innovation from infection prevention company, ECOLAB.

SUZANNE CALLANDER reports on some of the themes and trends highlighted during the plenary conference sessions at the British Society of Gastroenterology annual meeting, which took place at the SECC in Glasgow in June.

With recent merging of GETINGE LANCER the company believes it is now able to offer the most comprehensive range of decontamination, sterilisation and infection control solutions.

FERRING PHARMACEUTICALS is a world leader in the research and commercial development of peptides, and compounds.

BES DECON offers a wide range of solutions to many decontamination challenges – such as cleaning, disinfection, and sterilisation.

UK MEDICAL’s Ella range of gastrointestinal stents includes technologies such as the BD biodegradable oesophageal stent and Danis stent for bleeding oesophageal varices, along with oesophageal, biliary, colonic and pyloroduodenal SEMS.

Calprotectin is a proven biomarker of organic inflammatory bowel disease (IBD). Typically, inflammatory bowel conditions require further investigation by colonoscopy.

KARL STORZ, a manufacturer of endoscopy equipment, will be using the event to introduce a new range of flexible video endoscopes.

PENTAX MEDICAL will be launching its EPK-i7000 HD+ video processor and i10 scope series at the event.

BOSTON SCIENTIFIC is well known for developing products that can improve the management and quality of patient treatments.

PURICORE launched a new passthrough AER for endoscope decontamination at the recent BSG 2013. The modular design of the new system is said to deliver unparalleled levels of reliability with fast cycle times to support the ever increasing productivity demands put on endoscopy units.

Endoscopy services throughout the UK could benefit from a new technology introduced by endoscopy equipment provider, IMOTECH MEDICAL.

ERBE UK displayed the latest in electrosurgical technology for use in GI endoscopy at BSG 2013.

PARTNERS FOR ENDOSCOPY has announced that it is now the distributor for the whole Medivators range – including the Advantage AER, Endo SmartCap and the Endo Stratus CO2 Insufflator.

The GI Reporting Tool from UNISOFT has been developed in conjunction with gastroenterologists and is currently installed in over 230 hospitals.

MEDICAL INNOVATIONS GROUP, the creator and manufacturer of the Cleanascope system has now introduced SureStore, which it describes as ‘the future of endoscope storage and transportation’.

With budgets becoming tighter for endoscopy units, coupled with ever changing and more stringent harmonised standards and guidelines for decontamination of endoscopes, hospitals are looking for innovative ways to provide a ‘best value for money’ reprocessing service that satisfies both their budget and the drive for compliant departments.