System 'optimises' theatre air quality

Air-conditioning technology specialist, Weiss Klimatechnik, believes it has developed one of the world's first systems for continuous monitoring, and, where necessary, adjustment of laminar air flow quality and purity during, rather than prior to, surgical procedures, a technology it believes could substantially reduce rates of post-operative wound infection. Until now, explains Rupert Mack, general manager of the Mediclean business unit that will market the new Mediclean CPM technology globally, the air flow supplied by laminar flow systems is generally set once, during commissioning, and thereafter never changed; it is rare, he says, for air purity to be accurately monitored or adjusted during surgery, an anomaly Weiss Klimatechnik is determined to address.