How to Consider the Surgical Light Selection

The main roles of selection of surgical lights are the thermal management, fail-safe surgical lighting and vendor selection. These points are important aspects that need to be considered while selecting a surgical light. These are described as below:

Thermal Management: Light inevitably produce heat. However, the heat must be managed to avoid tissue desiccation or drying up of tissues which could cause severe consequences in sensitive surgeries and heat need to be managed for surgeon’s comfort, particularly when they operate on long-drawn surgical operations.

The heat radiance is measured at the light patch and at light-head. Although LED does not produced IR, it still produces some amount of heat. Since high luminance light produce more radiant energy, the IEC standard restrict a maximum of 1000W/m2 at the light patch. The surgical lights produced by “Skynexx” fully comply the IEC norms.

Fail Safe Surgical Lighting: There is no scope for error in a OR. It is of paramount importance that all the equipment and staff perform to the best of their ability in a fail-safe atmosphere. The surgical light need to be redundant in that in the event of a defect in any components, the light must be still be operable with a minimum luminance of 40000 lx. The single dome light generally does not give fail-safe protection. A double dome luminary with   separate transformers, fuses, wirings, and parallelly connected lamps or auxiliary lamps are likely to offer a fail-safe performance. “Skynexx” surgical lights meets with the above norms.

Vendor Selection: Vendor selection is hugely important in that proper products and services need to be acquired, preferably after verifying the evidenced existing performance of the vendor. Surgical lights which are Life Saving medical devices, which are made up of electronic and electrical components among other components are prone to break-downs, need to provide maximum uptime; say 95% uptime, which necessitates that proper Warranty, AMC, CMC arrangements are in place and the vendor must be selected considering the long term serviceability of the product based on the above and Life-Cycle Cost(LCC) calculation and existing evidenced performance.”Skynexx” surgical lights have existing verifiable performance and prvide warranty, AMC and CMC as may be required.

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