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Vacuum pumps used in medical and healthcare facilities are essential for maintaining clean, sterile environments and managing various types of waste and contaminants. Medical vacuum pumps are used for tasks ranging from general cleaning to more specialized applications like laboratory work, surgical procedures, and handling hazardous materials.
Elmo Rietschle’s vacuum technologies play a crucial role in the medical industry, supporting a wide range of applications that contribute to patient care, safety, and the efficient functioning of medical facilities. They are integral to maintaining high standards of hygiene, supporting advanced medical procedures, and enabling the production of high-quality pharmaceuticals and medical devices.
Elmo Rietschle offers a number of vacuum and low pressure technologies which can be applied in the medical and healthcare industries. We can help you select the right solution to ensure you get the right equipment for your needs. We also offer custom vacuum system solutions to meet the wide variety of healthcare industry requirements.
Our solutions are fully compliant to medical industry standards and certified for use in patient applications. Our solutions have a reputation in the healthcare industry for reliability and quality. We work in partnership with medical equipment manufacturers to design, develop and deliver the optimum vacuum solution for various applications.
We have a long history of providing world leading vacuum solutions for medical devices and applications. Our products are used in thousands of hospitals and healthcare facilities worldwide. Our global network of fully trained Elmo Rietschle service technicians will support your equipment throughout its lifetime. Our aftermarket support services extend the operating life of our equipment while maintaining performance, accuracy, and reliability.
Vacuum pumps are commonly used to regulate air pressure and support patients’ breathing needs. The choice of pump depends on the specific requirements of the equipment, such as the desired flow rate, pressure, and nature of the gases being handled.
Common solutions include rotary vane vacuum pumps and side channel blowers. Vane pumps are particularly useful where higher flow rate and consistent pressure are required. Side channel blowers offer advantages with their long life-time and robust design.
Elmo Rietshle specializes in the design and development of custom industrial vacuum systems that are fully certified for medical use and can be adapted to fit your requirements. Contact us to discuss your application needs.
Vacuum is used in dental equipment to draw off liquids such as cooling water from the drilling machine, saliva and blood. The side channel blowers used for these applications must be corrosion-proof. Our central vacuum systems are designed for use in dental clinics. They are quiet, small and efficient, with full certification for use with patients.
We supply a number of low pressure compressor solutions for us in Air Beds in hospitals and retirement homes. Air beds are used for bed-ridden patients at risk for bedsores (decubitus ulcer). The use of air can bring about a distinct improvement in patients. Skin can dry and heal better if an air-permeable mattress is used.
At the same time, inflating individual air chambers while deflating others varies the pressure on the skin, thus helping prevent bedsores. Through selective raising and lowering of different areas, air beds can also help position the patient for treatment and personal care. Our Side Channel Blower technology offer a cost effective, low noise solution which is easily installed in to healthcare equipment.
The cushion can be lifted with the help of compressed air to make it easier for older patients to stand up. Chairlifts also help the nursing staff to provide optimal treatment. Side Channel Blower technology is used in chair lifts to provide a highly reliable, compact air solutions that can be used in sensitive patient environments.
In a steam steriliser, the wet steam condenses when coming into contact with the cooler items which are being sterilised. The heat is then released from the steam. This leads to the denaturation of the germs, the molecular structure of their protein being destroyed. Our Liquid Ring Vacuum pumps are used to remove air from the autoclaves chamber and load. Liquid Ring Vacuum Pumps allows the steam to penetrate further into the load, improving the sterilisation capability of the autoclave. Liquid Ring technology are extremely reliable even in humid and wet processes such as this.
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Low Pressure Solutions for Medical Ventilators
We provide the healthcare industry with a number of vacuum and blower solutions that are used both as components within medical equipment and for the supply of suction from a centralized vacuum system. One such device that we have supplied for many years is our side channel blowers for movement of air in medical ventilators. Recently, ventilators have been used at the forefront of treating patients during the Coronavirus pandemic (Covid-19).
