STARKSTROM is committed to supporting the healthcare sector by focusing its product design and development to reduce the potential for infections when using products from its S-equiP range.
These products include a variety of infection-fighting features, helping to ensure the operating room or critical care area remain a bacteria and virus-unfriendly zone.
The company’s range of clinical lighting, for example, has been designed to ensure minimal disruption to airflow and ultra clean conditions at the wound site are maintained. The lights can be controlled remotely, via the wipe-clean eTCP, or directly by the surgeon using the Sensogrip controls, so fewer staff need to enter the clean zone. Membranestyle control keypads and lenses made of strong glass, rather than scratch-prone plastic, make the lights easy to clean and less prone to bacteria.
Products in Starkstrom’s range of multimovement pendants feature screwless sockets and fascias, easily removable end caps, integrated utility poles and oval structural arm design, ensuring they are easy to clean and have fewer ledges and screw heads to harbour dust and associated germs. Factory laser cutting of panel fascias enables third-party products, such as nurse call and emergency call systems, to be seamlessly integrated.
Starkstrom’s eTCPs feature a membranecovered touchscreen, eliminating the need for protruding pushbuttons, controls and third-party alarms that act as unnecessary dust ledges. A ‘cleaning button’ means that screens are locked while the surface is cleaned, so no information is disturbed. The eTCPs are also Bluetooth-enabled, so the clinical team can connect smart media players in the operating room to play music if desired, rather than bringing in external bacteria-covered stereo equipment or docks.
Starkstrom’s wall-mounted Picture Archiving and Communications Systems (PACS) viewing station has been designed specifically for use in operating rooms. Fitted flush to the wall and off the floor, it is easy to clean. The recessed membrane keyboard, has fewer crevices where bacteria can settle and thrive, and is quick and easy to clean.
