In the past century it has been established by surgeons and microbiologists that bacteria is responsible for wound infections and more dangerously so during invasive surgical procedures.
The strong belief that elimination of bacteria from the hospital and, in particular the operating room, would prevent infection was the basic and scientific need to create clean operating rooms involving clean room technologies. The need for a clean environment is fundamental and basic requirement for control of infections in hospitals.
The modern, new age clean operating rooms besides having complex designs and equipments also use advanced HVAC and Air Ventilation systems. Apart from being investment intensive the operating costs of these equipments is also high.
However, there would be no justification to use doors which allow untreated and infectious air into these clean operating rooms. These expensive to operate technologies will be totally ineffective if the treated air (which is expensive to generate) cannot be prevented or preserved from attacks of infiltration from adjoining spaces and external sources. For any given space, there also exists the external influence of gross atmospheric contamination. These sources include air pollution in general and dust storms. Also, external contamination can infiltrate through building doors, windows and cracks. The external contamination is controlled primarily by the type of filtration used and space pressurisation in the clean operating rooms.
Metaflex recognised these needs and utilised its expertise in hermetic sealing to develop more than thirty years ago a hermetically sealing door (our patented technology) for clean operating rooms and very soon the door became popular with operating rooms all over the world to contain and preserve treated air inside the Operating Room. Since then Metaflex doors are benchmarked quality products.
The Metaflex hermetically sealing sliding door (Mak Health) has been carefully designed and developed to control infiltration of air from external areas, the contours of the door do not allow any resting places for bacteria and are easy to wipe clean the surfaces and to maintain sterility in clean operating rooms.
Lot of people believe that even swing or hinged doors can be used for clean operating rooms however they forget that swing or hinged doors are most dangerous, as they force infectious air to enter into the clean operation room every time these doors are opened and closed by creating an inward and outward turbulence of air. This uncontrolled air can accelerate the spread of airborne micro-organisms by air currents and may infect susceptible hosts in operating theatres and isolation wards.
This is precisely the reason why Metaflex developed a sliding door which during operation only cuts through the air and does not create any turbulence or any forces to let the air inside the clean operating room.
Also some of the very vital ingredients and factors in our Mak Health door are that:
- It seals off hermetically the clean room area that means all four sides (including the floor) thereby not allowing any infiltration of air , prevents cross-contamination of air between two rooms , and supports the pressure hierarchy in an operating suite , contributing to considerable cost savings.
- The sealing is over 99 per cent effective thus reducing cross contamination, dirty air entering the clean room and expensive air handling costs.
- It is not intrusive like a swing or hinged door thereby saving lots of space
- The contours are flush designed so as to keep area sterile and not to allow any bacteria to create resting places
- It is made from inorganic materials, so that any kind of bacterial growth is not possible on the door.
- It is easy to operate for ease of access and exit
- As it is the most used and abused part of an operation theatre, therefore it is very robust and swift yet elegant
Metaflex further improvised the technology to provide doors with standard manual operation and with electric automation enabling automatic operation.The doors can be automated with the fail safe and reliable advanced chip operated controller which has several unique features. The intelligent automation senses if an obstruction is present and prevents the door from closing thus eliminating the need for a dirty safety strip thereby leaving the leading edge clean and ledge free. The opening and closing speeds and the time delay closing are easy to adjust and a self-diagnostic coded system makes fault finding simple reducing expensive down time. Doors can be locked or interlocked to suit individual client requirements.
Mak Health automatic doors are very convenient and easy as they allow Surgeons to enter and exit without having to use their hands for opening the doors which is so essential after a scrub and also after the surgery when their clothes and hands have blood and contaminants all over.
Metaflex paid special attention to all the above factors in designing of their Mak health-the hermetically sealed door to be used in operating rooms, clean rooms and laboratories. The extra special features besides all above of Mak Health are:
- User Friendly
- Large openings
- Creating a room without obstacles
- Saving expensive space in the room
- Preventing air turbulence
- Easier movement for wheel chair
- Safer operation, less risk of hitting people
Metaflex has over one million installations globally and have a pan India presence with hundreds of satisfied and repeat customers in India who have tried and tested our products.
Sensing the high priority and need of a dependable service, we created a Pan India network of Sales and service so that we are always very close to you when you need us.
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