Sychem aims to provide honest expert advice and the support needed to implement all the new procedures and good practices required, so customers can be reassured that compliance is met in any aspect of their decontamination process.
About Sychem
Sychem is a leading UK provider of disinfection, sterilisation and decontamination solutions services and consumables to the UK’s biomedical, laboratory and healthcare sectors. The company combines its control and compliance systems with its decontamination equipment services and newly launched SychemEye Independent Product Release software, in a bid to ensure its clients’ infection control and prevention processes are never compromised.
Sychem’s experience in innovative products and cutting edge solutions has allowed the company to build a loyal and prestigious customer base. A well-respected organisation, Sychem has a fast growing reputation that has reached the attention of large facilities nationally and internationally. The company has been recognised for its attention to detail, high quality of products and its made-to-measure servicing systems which have been created by working closely with customers and supply partners to meet any decontamination control and compliance requirement.
With a large team of specialists based in the UK, Sychem’s national and international coverage is one of the largest in the country providing its products and services to hundreds of hospitals, laboratories, pharmaceutical and biomedical facilities nationwide. From humble beginnings as an antimicrobial chemical provider (Sychem Control and Sychem Protect), Sychem has grown to be a leading supplier of the control and compliance products to the decontamination processes.
2018 has seen the organisation’s appointment as the distributor of the Bionova and Chemdye products from Terragene, enabling the company to improve its clients’ sterile services compliance, to ensure their decontamination processes are never compromised.
Launching of the new Infection
Control and Prevention Division Sychem says it understands the critical time that many healthcare organisations encounter with continued changes to regulations, practices and procedures necessary to meet the recommendation of the Health Technical Memoranda. With the HTM 01-01:2016 implementations for the management and decontamination of surgical instruments effective from 1 July 2018, healthcare facilities have faced a challenge to select a suitable compliant protein residue testing system that enables quantitative results to be provided on the residual protein levels of surgical instruments. With Sychem’s help, the MiniPro incubator and Pro1Micro protein monitoring pen have been unveiled to ensure you keep up with the required regulatory changes by implementing a safe, easy to use system - with full trend analysis and archived results via the use of its complimentary software.
Sychem strives to provide solutions that maximise safety, minimise costs and ensure full compliance against the latest standards required. Healthcare providers can now achieve patient safety and clinical effectiveness within the decontamination of reusable medical devices thanks to the new system enabling residual protein to be sampled in a quantifiable way. Thanks to years of research, the new product line by Terragene, the Bionova and Chemdye range, is now available for the UK and distributed by Sychem Ltd.
This product line includes a wide range of protein testing, biological and chemical indicators and accessories for the control of the sterilisation processes (Steam, VHP/H2O2 and Formaldehyde), and the effectiveness of surgical instrument washing and endoscope reprocessing. “For the first time,” Sychem states, “cost effective, compliant quantitative and traceable results for the decontamination process are now possible.”
Quantitative protein residue testing system: Are you ready?
Featured in Sychem’s HTM0101:2016 campaign for the Infection Control and Prevention Division, the Rapid Readout System is a new approach for the quantitative detection and traceability of protein residue on reusable instruments. This new hygiene monitoring technique is based on a highly absorbent pen system and a super rapid incubator for the quantitative readout, designed to provide exact results of protein levels on washed instruments - in real time. The system can be easily used within washing disinfector processes and endoscope reprocessing with the use of the Pro1Micro, the high absorption pen, which allows the collection of samples from different surfaces with high efficiency and with a sensitivity of 0.3µg.
Quantitative analysis is possible by using the Bionova MiniPro incubator thanks to an automatic readout system and a printer to record the data. The incubator has numerous functions and programmes in a bid to ensure the verification process is without compromise. Results and tracking of the decontamination process are possible by connecting the MiniPro with the traceability software for full compliance to the HTM0101:2016. The system now features a positive and negative control pen for periodic validation of the Rapid Readout Systems MiniPro Incubator and the effective validation of results.
Tailor-made services
Sychem specialises in tailor-made services that are designed to maximise infection control and safety. The organisation aims to optimise the processes of any sterile department by helping to minimise costs resulting from downtime and loss of productivity. Its focus in providing comprehensive solutions has led Sychem to become competitive leaders in preventive maintenance, breakdown assistance and its responsive software platform SychemEye for total servicing, call out transparency and reporting, combined with its new Independent Product Release software for complete traceability of the decontamination process. Thanks to a specialist team of engineers the company also provides training via its new Training Academy, offering structured training packages aimed to enable safe, accurate and reliable operation for all decontamination equipment and systems. The training packages offer tailor-made courses, ranging from operator and user to maintenance staff.
For more information on SychemEye® or to speak to a Sychem representative please contact:
T . +44 (0)845 644 6824
F . +44 (0)845 644 6834
E. sales@sychem.co.uk
www.sychem.co.uk
