Vanguard Healthcare, the UK's leading supplier of mobile medical facilities, has chosen to equip its new mobile endoscopy unit with a MEDICA Biopure Rinsewater System from ELGAProcess Water. The unit, the first of its kind in the UK, provides an instant endoscopy service for hospitals that have either no existing service or high waiting lists for specialist investigations such as gastroscopy, colonoscopy and cystoscopy.
“In addition to a comprehensive range of purification technologies, the system we chose had to contain minimal ‘dead legs’ where microbes could breed, be fully HTM2030/2031 compliant, and easy to integrate with our current and future washer systems. It also had to supply as much biopure water as and when needed and be extremely compact to maximise the small amount of space available.”
The MEDICABiopure Rinsewater System meets all of these requirements. As well as being fully HTM2030/2031 compliant, it combines reverse osmosis, UV sterilisation and ultrafiltration technologies to generate up to 30 litres of biopure water per minute, enough to supply several automated endoscope reprocessors and more than enough to satisfy the needs of the mobile unit. It also easily integrates multiple washers from a wide variety of manufacturers, allowing the unit’s washer systems to be ‘future-proofed’.
Its streamlined cabinet-based style helps save space in the unit’s compact environment, yet it contains enough room to hold a 350 litre reservoir. As ambient temperature water systems can sometimes prove difficult to maintain hygienically, the MEDICA Biopure has been designed to include several innovative anti-bacterial measures to solve this.
The reservoir contains a spray ball to prevent biofilm formation on the walls, so it easily copes with fluctuating periods of demand while maintaining the highest standards of water quality. The system also has a completely automated and validated disinfection cycle that the unit staff find easy to operate without having to open the cabinet housing. A single prepackaged and validated shot of disinfectant is simply added through a dosing port on the front of the cabinet and the system takes over and does the rest. When the disinfection cycle is finished, a record of the process is available in both printed and electronic forms to verify it has been completed.
