Did you know that the average hospital operating room costs a whopping $72 per minute to operate?
Many surgeons experience problems with vacuum systems that have low suction in these operating rooms.
In critical care areas NFPA 99 requires a minimum flow rate of 85L per minute.
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What Causes Low Suction In Operating Rooms?
When operated correctly, physicians or assistants are using vacuum suction during surgical procedures and the suction tube is connected to a collection canister as a fail safe. However, these collection canisters can easily fill up and begin to overflow, which causes the remaining debris to get sucked back into the vacuum lines, clogging them.
Some facilities skip the collection canisters and instead, plug directly into the wall inlet.
Once the debris enters the vacuum pipes it begins to build up and degrade the entire vacuum system…The result is low suction.
Which means these surgeries take more time because the surgeons have to wait for debris to be removed and, leaves patients with more open time.
Some hospitals try to offset these low suction problems with portable vacuum systems. These portal vacuum systems are expensive to purchase, they’re loud, they’re not energy efficient, and they can be dangerous to operate.
Some hospitals try to fix the low suction problem by pouring medical enzyme solution into the vacuum system. But, that’s not effective and doesn’t solve the problem, and where do think all that solution goes?
This biohazard gets sucked back to the main system reserve tank, which is an infectious control issue and could result in shorting out a vacuum pump. In many cases, hospitals have had to replace clogged piping in the operating rooms.
So what do we recommend?
To repair your system, we start by testing and documenting the current status of the system. The next step involves mechanically isolating the affected area to prevent our cleaning solution from reaching the source equipment. Then, we connect our equipment to the vacuum terminals in the affected area. Next, we use our patented Vac Wash Technology to clean, repair, and restore your vacuum system.
Our equipment then pushes and pulls special enzyme solution through the vacuum pipes and through the other outlets. This process filters out and collects the debris in your pipes, leaving them clean and smooth inside.
Once the machine cleaning is finished, we remove the now biohazard solution that we collect and dispose of it properly.
Finally, we retest and document the perfect working status of your vacuum system.
Using our Vac Wash system to clean and restore your vacuum systems can easily save you 10 to 20 minutes per procedure, enabling your hospital to handle 1 more procedure every day!
Vac Wash cleans and restores your vacuum system for less than the cost of one of those noisy, energy hogging portable vacuum systems and, it’s a lot less than closing an OR to re-plumb the suite.
This means your vacuum systems will be good as new, saving you time and money, but most importantly keeping your patients safer.
Which means, surgeons are happy, nurses are happy, and facility directors are happy.
What are you waiting for? Contact CHT to get a FREE Vac Wash consultation today!
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