Meiko presents its new bedpan washer-disinfector TopLine at Medica 2021
Meiko presents its new bedpan washer-disinfector TopLine at Medica 2021

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What makes the latest Meiko innovation so special? How can the new Meiko TopLine optimise the cleaning and disinfection process? This is best explained by people who work with it every day.

Case study from the BDH clinic in Elzach: ‘We are carers – not machine operators!’

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Claudia Ganz using the TopLine washer-disinfector

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‘Insert care utensils – and you're done! – It runs itself.’ That is Claudia Ganz discussing the cleaning and disinfection process for care utensils in the new Meiko TopLine appliances.

Previously, many more touches were needed: open the machine door with your clean hand whilst skilfully balancing the full bedpan in the other. Then insert the bedpan into the machine, along with the contents. Shut the machine door. Find, select and start the right programme. Then rush off to wherever you are needed!

These days it is just one simple movement and a quick look to check – and that is all the human input needed in the utility room. The rest is down to the Meiko TopLine. 

Contact-free operation

This is all down to a feature that is new to the market: load detection by Meiko. The assistant system suggests the correct cleaning programme for the care utensils loaded and starts it automatically after a few seconds. When combined with automatic door opening and closing – available with either a hand sensor or foot switch depending on version – you don't even need to open or close the door by hand.

The load detection system suggests the correct cleaning programme for the care...
The load detection system suggests the correct cleaning programme for the care utensils loaded and starts it automatically

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‘Making things as easy as possible helps us to keep more time available for our actual jobs. I think that is an important role that technology can play in our sector,’ says Claudia Ganz. And that was one of the ideas behind the development of this product. ‘So that carers can go about caring! So they are not caught up with operating these machines all the time.’

Smooth running

The new operating concept is a further innovation. Has the programme already ended? Is everything running smoothly? The new Meiko TopLine appliances communicate this information using status displays, progress bars and coloured lights. Blue means ‘ready for operation’, green is for ‘washing’ and red shows that there is an ‘important message’.

‘That means that just walking past in the corridor, I can see whether the machine is still flashing green and I have time to see another patient or whether I can go and start unpacking,’ explains Nadine Heizmann, one of the nurses as BDH Clinic Elzach. 

Hygienically safe cleaning and disinfection

We have seen some of the benefits that the new model delivers from a care perspective, as identified by Claudia Ganz. But she is a hygienist through and through – so the cleaning performance had to win out, too. And it did – with flying colours. 

BDH Clinic Elzach specialises in neurological rehabilitation, both general and early. That means: lots of patients in need of care. And lots more wash bowls, urine bottles, bedpans and kidney dishes that have to be cleaned and disinfected after use. ‘We have machines that can easily manage 15,000 loads per year. More, even.’

A freshly redesigned wash chamber with the wash arm on the roof and nozzles to provide higher washing pressure from the perfect positions come together to ensure a hygienic clean both inside and out for items entrusted to the Meiko TopLine. Plus an adjustable A0 value of up to 12,000 ensures that BDH Clinic Elzach is equipped for the future.

04.11.2021

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