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Customer testimonial:
Gelre Ziekenhuizen
About Gelre Ziekenhuizen
Take better care of each other!
With more than 3,600 committed employees, the professionals at Gelre
work hard to improve the health of the 350,000 people in their service
area. In this way they are at the heart of healthcare in their region. In addition, they fulfil a supra-regional function on the basis of specific knowledge
and expertise in a number of medical fields, amongst which sterilisation.
Their mission is to keep personal care accessible and affordable by meansof targeted innovation and better and smarter healthcare. They achieve
this by developing and sharing knowledge and bynew forms of cooperation
with care partners and by making optimal use of digital possibilities.

Problem - Manual leaktest

Current situation
The CSSD of Gelre Ziekenhuizen Zutphen conducted extensive tests witha predecessor of LeakControl. During this test phase, we came up withseveral experiences. “What emerged, for example, is that if you want toaccurately test a large scope, you have to test it for 120 seconds forleak-tightness.
This is of less importance with small scopes, because in case of leakage thepressure drops faster,” Bas Vriend explains.
“LeakControl can distinguish between a large scope such asa colonscope and a smaller one such as a bronchoscope andadjust its measuring time accordingly.”
LeakControl can automatically switch between the two or you can selectthe preferred timeframe.
It turns out that when you put a scope in a bath with a water temperatureof more than 30°C, the pressure in the scope increases. This makes it
almost impossible to detect small leaks. LeakControl can detect over-pressure caused by heating and incorporates this overpressure into the measurement, so that small leaks are also detected.

A recognizable fact in many central sterilization departments, is the highlyvariable procedure during manual pre-cleaning of scopes. One sterilisation
employee leaves the scope attached to the leak tester for two minutes,
another for only thirty seconds. One staff member detects a leak when
the scope goes down from 220 mBar to 200 mBar and the other only at
180 mBar or through the air bubbles in the water bath.

User experience

The process is not reproducible and depends greatly on the sterilisation
department employee. Reason enough for Bas Vriend, CSD team leader
at the Zutphen location of Gelre Ziekenhuizen, to work with a smart leaktester.

In the meantime, the predecessor of LeakControl has been working here
for years. It’s a very stable product. Our service history shows that they
developed and manufactured a very durable product.” Three of the sametesters have been running within Gelre hospitals since the end of 2015.

“We are happy to be rid of our hand pumps and the rather noisy
electric pump. They were really the cause of many problems.””It has turned out that with a relatively small investment, LeakControl is a constant factor and provides a quality improvement and cost savings within the scope cleaning process here
at Gelre .”Previous situation
Bas Vriend explains, “After manual pre-cleaning - when the scope is placedin the disinfection machine - there are times that a scope does not pass
the leak test of the disinfection machine. The cause may be a leaking scope,a defective seal or an incorrect connection.
If such a problem occurs, it is quite annoying. The disinfection process
is interrupted to find and solve the problem, which always costs extra
time.
Another problem occurs when scopes are not properly tested. It has to
do with microleaks that cannot be detected manually and when scopes
enter the disinfection machine. The undetected leaks can cause damage tothe scope and incur increased repair costs!“”There must be a better way to do that, I thought.” Bas Vriend found LeakControl. After exchanging ideas, he soon realized the potential increase inpatient safety and thought of possible savings on repairs.

The leak tester works on a clear go/no-go principle, by means of a redor green LED. “Leak testing has become a reproducible process and is nolonger dependent on other factors such as time and pressure estimatesfrom colleagues. It is suspected that LeakControl has prevented scopedamage in addition to saving time. “Bas Vriend
CSA Team leader
Gelre Ziekenhuizen
Apeldoorn & Zutphen

Interested?
Many hospitals have already expressed interest in LeakControl or havethese testers in use. The leak tester can be set up to suit each user. Contact Dovideq today for a quote. For any user experiences, please contact
Bas Vriend, Team Leader CSA Gelre Ziekenhuizen - location Zutphen.
For more info visit: www.dovideqmedical.com

LeakControl
Automated Endoscope Air Leak Tester

Why you should buy LeakControl
Increase patient safety
Eliminate the risk of cross infection between patients
Decrease annual costs of flexible scopes with 90%
Minimize the level of damage caused by submersion in fluids
Save large repairs: microleak detectionMinimize the cost of repairs
Uninterrupted desinfection process
Desinfection machine never stops because of leaks

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