Worldwide hospitals prioritize patient’s treatment, health, and safety. So, how is blood or other specimen handled, sent and received at a hospital? How is document delivered? Documents and samples from one point to another can be sent and received in many ways but in terms of safety pneumatic tube system is an efficient alternative.
Pneumatic tube systems –
- Deliver cost effective automation – Save the time and money to hire a staff to get documents or samples from one point to another.
- Enhance productivity – Hospital staff does not need to wait for arrival of lab reports or papers, thus releasing them to do their core care activities.
- Time saver – The nurse or other staff does not need to run errands for transporting medication or specimen or surgery files from one point to another?
- Are safe and trustworthy – Contamination risk gets reduced a lot with PTS installation.
- Are easy and fast – PTS carriers are specially designed to transport documents and samples efficiently and noiselessly with NO air-resistance. Every station is equipped with empty carriers to send items instantly.
- Are user-friendly – PTS has a friendly interface, which the hospital employees can use easily.
How the PTS work in hospitals?
Hospital personnel are fast-paced because they focus on giving patients best care. To maintain the dynamic environment in the hospital, a PTS solution needs to be safe, reliable and quick. So how does hospital pneumatic tubes function?
- There is a tube network connected to several receiving or transfer stations within different zones.
- Several carriers are there at these stations for the staff to send or receive samples noiselessly, accurately, securely and efficiently.
- The stations are chosen carefully within the hospital including pharmacy, clinic, laboratory, reception area, or surgery room.
- PTS move things upwards, sideways and downwards using air-cushioned ride to transport sensitive specimens shock-free.
An example of how it works – When a nurse needs to send sample to an on-call doctor, two floors up then she places the sample within the carrier. The carrier is then placed within the sending station. The desired location is then entered and sent.
The tube system is fully automated and uses air for transporting the carrier to the second floor in a couple of minutes. The trip to the 2nd floor gets saved and the nurse can carry on with her other duties. In addition, the contamination risk of sample or documents get reduced.
Proper designing
For proper designing of hospital PTS network consider –
- Determine what is going to be transported via PTS and from where
- Evaluate how the hospital staff will use the PTS
- Predict potential carrier traffic
- Design network to handle predicted traffic
- Reliable and individually adjustable speed needs to be considered because the PTS carries temperature sensitive blood product
The PTS operates using hardware as well as software. The pneumatic tube station is equipped with 7” touchscreen or 3” LCD display and other components are diverter, tubes, blower, carriers and relevant equipment. Choose a reliable PTS solution provider for delivering enhanced patient care experience.
