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New Product Announcement
Nano Guided Airflow™( Nano GAF™) is the latest addition to Johnson
Medical family of innovative products in the surgical and critical care
field of providing better
environment for patients and care giver. Aiming at reducing
contaminants at the surgical field above the operating table and below the
operating light, Nano GAF™ effectively
reduces the contaminants. Patented Worldwide
In Contaminants such as dust
particle from the air, skin
shedding from surgical team as well as patients, are the media on which
bacterial are carried. Such bacterial carrying particles contaminants will
flow with air movement. British Guidelines for operating theatre airflow over the operating table should be unidirectional and not more than 0.3 m/s (60 ft per minute) to prevent drying up patients wound and discomfort to surgical team over the period of the procedure but at the same time it should be effective in blowing the "particles(e.g. dust, skin sheddings) away from the surgical field." Computerised Fluid Dynamic is the advance study of Laws of Fluid Dynamics to model the airflow, and simulate the distribution of temperature, velocity, particles. The room environment which is prevailing will determine the temperature and humidity as it is. As seen in the velocity CFD modelling, the patented jet air starts at 0.6 m/s and airwashes the surgical field at 0.3m/s without drying up patients wound.Studies by Southerland(1993) showed the probability of post operative septsis is directly related to the number of airbourne bacteria that is in the vicinity of the wound. Treating post operative complication can be very costly, the payback period of an airflow systems that can control the airflow and reduces infection risk can be short and rewarding in patient care, as concluded by Rosengarten(2001).
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