What makes the latest MEIKO innovation so special? How can the new TopLine M2 optimise the cleaning and disinfection process? This is best explained by people who work with it every day: the employees of the BDH clinic in Elzach, Germany.
We are carers – not machine operators!
“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 TopLine M2 appliances.
Previously, many more touches were needed: open the machine door, 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 sluice room. The rest is down to the TopLine M2.
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.
“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
Has the programme already ended? Is everything running smoothly? The new TopLine M2 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
Claudia Ganz is also 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.”
An optimally designed wash chamber with the wash arm on the roof and nozzles to provide high washing pressure from the perfect positions come together to ensure a hygienic clean both inside and out for items entrusted to the TopLine M2. Plus an adjustable A0 value of up to 12,000 ensures that BDH Clinic Elzach is equipped for the future.
Experience the Topline M2
Arab Health is coming up – and with it the opportunity to experience the first washer-disinfector with an assistant system by MEIKO: TopLine M2, the new pearl in their care collection, live at booth H10 in the Saeed Arena.
- You can register here: www.meiko.com/en/arab-health
