Long life and low noise are key factors to consider when selecting pumps for medical equipment.
With a reputation for reliability and quiet operation, the Gardner Denver brands and their products are found in all types of equipment designed to monitor, sterilize, diagnose and analyze. Other applications assist in healing, promote patient's comfort and support life itself.
Air Beds
Air beds are used for bed-ridden patients at risk for bedsores (decubitus ulcer). The use of air can bring about a distinct improvement in patients. Skin can dry and heal better if an air-permeable mattress is used. At the same time, inflating individual air chambers while deflating others varies the pressure on the skin, thus helping prevent bedsores.
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Air Mattresses
Patients who spend prolonged periods laying still will rapidly develop uncomfortable bedsores. A medical air mattress is a bed consisting of multiple cells. These cells slowly inflate and deflate according to the selected program - and hence simulate body movement.
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Aspirators
Aspirators are widely used in the medical industry today and are found in hospitals and clinics as well as doctor's and dentist's offices. The integrated Thomas diaphragm pump creates a partial vacuum which is used to remove fluids, tissue or foreign material from bodily wounds and injuries. High end aspirators are mostly found in surgery.
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Autoclaves
Modern, higher end, steam autoclaves (so-called Europe Class) work with pre- and post-vacuum. Before the actual sterilisation process the chamber is repeatedly evacuated - in fractionating steps - with the help of vacuum pumps.
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Bath Seats
The chair is designed to allow easy access in and out of bathtubs for handicapped or mobility impaired people. A strong, comfortable and lightweight moulded plastic chair seats in the tub and lowers and lifts by means of a bellows that is inflated by compressed air.
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Blood Analyzers
Blood analyzers provide medical technicians time-critical blood analysis information required to make treatment decisions quickly and accurately. These types of analysers can measure such blood properties as red and white cell count, glucose, drugs and medication, and many others. They require compressed air to move the vials and instrumentation required to perform the analysis.
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Blood Pressure Monitors
In clinical intensive care units a patient's vital signs need to be monitored at least every 15 to 30 minutes. This is accomplished with patient monitors which typically display the patient's heart rate, body temperature, respiration rate and blood pressure. A Thomas miniature compressor is responsible for inflating the cuff at the beginning of each blood pressure measurement.
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Chairlift
The cushion can be lifted with the help of compressed air to make it easier for older patients to stand up. Chairlifts also help the nursing staff to provide optimal treatment.
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Central Vacuum Systems
Central vacuum systems are used in hospitals and ambulant surgical centres to draw off liquids occurring during the surgeries. A separator is installed in the operating room to separate fine particles from the larger ones. If the operating room is too small, the vacuum system can alternatively also be installed remotely.
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Compressed Air Applications
In applications where cleanliness is paramount, compressed air is a major source of energy for medical applications, used from operating theatres to the laundry, compressed air is reliable and safe. It is the first choice for powering tools in an operating theaters, as electrical drive products can interfere with sensitive medical monitoring equipment. Oil free compressors, are also used for respiratory applications. As all medical facilities need to clean equipment in sterile environments compressed air meets with this requirement.
- Air driven medical tools – Used for apparatus and equipment in sensitive areas where electrically driven equipment would interferer with sensitive medical equipment
- Breathing air – Air filtration is used to provide breathing and respiratory quality air
- Sterilization equipment – Clean filtered air is used for drying and handling of sterilized equipment
- Laboratory applications – Air is used as a safe clean product in many lab applications
- Dentists – Air used to operate precision easy to handle dental tools that need to be compact and very light
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Compression Therapy
Air used to operate precision easy to handle dental tools, that need to be compact and very lightThe three chambers of the sleeves are filled with air in succession: Chamber 1 to 100 %, chamber 2 to 80 %, and chamber 3 to 60 % of the set treatment pressure. All the chambers remain filled with air until the last chamber has attained the desired treatment pressure. The air is then released simultaneously from all the three chambers, and after an interval the inflation cycle begins once again.
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Dental Carts
Dental carts usually sit beside the patient chair and offer the dentist several options to perform the tasks required during a routine dental visit. These carts have compressed air and vacuum on board to draw the required air or pressure or vacuum from stationary systems mounted in the basement.
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Dentistry
Vacuum is used in dental equipment to draw off liquids such as cooling water from the drilling machine, saliva and blood. The side channel blowers used for these applications must be corrosion-proof.
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Dialysis Machines
Haemodialysis is a process by which excess waste products are removed from the patient's blood that is drawn through a special created vein in the forearm known as arterio-venous. This process requires the use of a dialysis machine. The blood flows through plastic tubes to the dialyser that is a bundle of hollow fibres made from a semi-permeable membrane. These types of machines require a Thomas peristaltic pump.
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Drug Delivery
These systems are used to dispense medication to patients in liquid form that cannot be taken by means of a pill or injection. They are usually dispensed by means of an IV. They are widely used in hospitals and medical clinics.
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Gas Monitoring
Used to determinate the baseline levels of waste anesthetic gases during surgical procedures and also prior to surgery. Testing of breathing zone levels in all OR's, the recovery room and ancillary areas as required.
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Nebulizers
A nebuliser consists of a nebuliser (mouthpiece) and a compressor. The airflow to the nebuliser changes the medication solution to a very fine mist.
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Nitrogen Generators
An integral membrane based system to transform standard compressed air into a continuous stream of dry nitrogen to supply both single and multiple instruments at purity levels ranging from 99% to 99.95%.
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Oxygen Concentrators
Oxygen Concentrators are used today to treat patients who suffer from respiratory (lung related) diseases. An O2 concentrator utilises a Thomas compressor to change ambient oxygen of 21% and boosts it to between 85% to 90%.
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Respirators (Ventilators)
Medical respirators are used in many areas for a wide variety of reasons. One area is in the operating room. It must serve a dual purpose. The surgical mask reduces exposure to the wearer of airborne particles in procedures such as laser and electrocautery.
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Steam Sterilization (Autoclaving)
In a steam sterilizer the hot, saturated steam is condensed when coming into contact with the cooler object to be sterilized, which absorbs the heat released. This leads to the denaturation of the germs, the molecular structure of their protein being destroyed. Although dry heat can be used for sterilization as well, humid steam is more suitable for this application because the process then requires a lower temperature and shorter sterilization time. The sterilization process is determined by both biochemical and physical parameters, the efficacy of which can be determined with the help of experiments, i.e. by comparing the number of germs before and after the sterilization process.
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Wound Aeration
A special therapy which is an effective system that applies controlled, localised subatmospheric pressure to the wound site to promote wound healing. It has been used effectively in treating thousands of wounds of different aetiologies in all care settings.
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