February 25, 2008—Midbrook, Inc., a manufacturer of aqueous and sealed solvent cleaning systems, has announced the diversification of its operations into the Medical and Health Care field, expanding its cleaning expertise into hospital and surgical centers with the Tempest line of cleaning and decontamination machines.
Midbrook currently serves the industrial, automotive, aerospace and pharmaceutical industries with its customized cleaning equipment.
With more than 20 years experience in the automotive parts washing industry, Midbrook hopes to use its expertise to spark innovation in the medical cleaning field as well. Midbrook’s core expertise in the industrial market helped create measurable standards in the automotive manufacturing process, notes the company.
Currently, the medical field lacks such measurable standards in decontamination, which creates the risk of inconsistency in the process. Decontamination refers to the removal of foreign matter prior to sterilization. Midbrook will use its experience in creating and meeting quantitative automotive standards to redefine the way the medical marketplace views clean, says the company.
The initial Midbrook Tempest line will feature four standardized products for hospital central processing departments. The Cart Washer cleans a cart loaded with post-surgical equipment leaving the sterile field. The Sonic Washer will mainly be used for small, delicate instrumentation such as capillary tubes, needle leads, and other inserted devices. This system utilizes cross field ultrasonic cavitation waves.
The Instrument Washer will clean the bulk of the hand held surgical tools such as scissors, scalpels, bone saws, rib spreaders and other common items. And the Lathroscopy Washer is specifically designed for advanced equipment such as laparoscopic surgery tools and the robotic surgery tools that are becoming more common in hospitals.
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