BRANDON MEDICAL’S fully integrated digital operating theatres have been installed at the Tunbridge Wells Hospital in Kent, England’s first ‘100 per cent single-bed’ acute healthcare facility.
Eight of the hospital’s theatres were equipped by the UK manufacturer with what it claims are the market’s first ‘fully integrated’ digital operating theatres. Brandon Medical’s Symposia is a digital media package incorporating a complete range of medical audio-visual products servicing a number of users and applications. The system connects medical professionals to a range of A/V resources, which can be accessed immediately from any location.
Symposia CoPAX, an integrated control and display system that combines the display and distribution of high definition laparoscopic images, audio-visual control, and display functions – all incorporated into a single, simple-to-use, integrated wall unit – forms the central control in digital operating theatres. The 42 in touchscreen features what Brandon says are ‘unique applications’, for instance automatic emailing and recording of documents such as operating information.
Bespoke functions, designed with the NHS client, can also be integrated. These include swab and suture count, WHO safety checks, ancillary theatre equipment control, and even the manoeuvring of the operating theatre table.
Brandon Medical’s Symposia Digital Theatre allows medical professionals live interaction with surgeons in operating theatres. The technology provides a tool for knowledge sharing, including via surgical skills best practice, tele-mentoring, medical lectures, and communication between multi-disciplinary teams. The integrated digital theatre technology builds on Brandon Medical’s specialist skills in developing surgical training centres.
