Ministry of Health

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 Published: 04/07/2007

With the enormity of the new hospital and the underlying HSDP principles of Integration, standardisation, and consolidation, NICU has been involved in determining equipment needs for the new NICU.  This has included representation on committees and evaluation of products under trial.

Medical Gas and Power Supply Units

are the suppliers of Pendants, Beams, and Booms.

Level 3		Level 2
The medical architectural system that NICU will be using for the Level 3 rooms is the Drager Ponta system.  This is an integrated beam system, incorporating lighting, data cabling, gas and power supplies, and shelving.  Ventilators can be mounted on this system.  The key feature of this system is that the power and gas supplies come off the vertical columns, and are mobile.  This will allow a huge amount of flexibility in the way the workspace is set up.  The columns can swivel but will not move up or down, nor perpendicular to the wall. An example is shown below, although our configuration will be different.  The system we are planning on will not have the "swivel" arm seen on the left-hand column.  The monitor and ventilator will be on the left- hand ("dry") column, with infusion pumps on the right-hand ("wet") column.  There is integrated indirect lighting coming from the top of the beam.  There will be halogen spotlights for examination coming off the front of the beam, and the ability to place a procedure light on the beam as well.		Level 2 services will be supplied by the Drager Gemina system.  This is a wall mounted modular system.  There is a triangular supply unit, with gas and power outlets. Accessories such as shelves, monitor arms, rails and baskets can be attached. An example is shown below.  Like the Ponta, our configuration is different.

For further information about the Drager architectural systems, please visit the Drager medical architecture website.

High-End Monitoring

, who supply the GE Marquette range of monitors, have been awarded the contract for high-end monitors.  NICU was involved in trials of these monitors and those of other suppliers who provided a tender.

These monitors have a considerable degree of flexibility.  One of the key features required in the proposed new Level 3 rooms is networking of monitors so that the physiological state of babies in adjacent bed-spaces and rooms can be monitored.  These monitors also have web-browsing capability, the ability to access laboratory and radiology results, and have flexible modules allowing for physiological information obtained from infants during transports to be recorded and downloaded to the monitoring base on return.

OxyCRG mode to keep David Knight happy ....

These monitors have already been installed in the current NICU, and the networking capabilities will be utilised to assist with transition into the new NICU.