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Single-Use Valves.
Eliminate the patient risk from contaminated valves.
Meeting the Challenges of Decontamination
Hospitals across the UK are making the switch to single-use valves to improve patient safety, streamline operations, and reduce environmental impact. Unlike reusable valves, which require rigorous decontamination, single-use valves eliminate contamination risks, ensuring sterility at every use.
By adopting single-use valves, your hospital can:
- Enhance Patient Safety – Eliminate the risk of cross-contamination in high-risk procedures.
- Optimise Costs – Reduce sterilisation expenses and labour costs while improving efficiency.
- Support Sustainability – Lower water, energy, and chemical use with an eco-friendly alternative.
The iM Med sterile single-use valves are manufactured to the highest quality and at a cost-effective price, enabling departments to transition to this patient safety essential at a price point to support local cost improvement initiatives.
Single-Use Valves
Unique Innovation & Patient Safety Focus
Discover.
Patient Safety
Minimise cross-contamination risks.
Traceability
Overcome limitations of tracking.
Effective
Consistent reliable performance.
Why single-use valves?
The intricate design and shape of valves means that ensuring safe reprocessing is extremely difficult and problematic. That, coupled with growing risks such as multiple-resistant germs, increases the demand of changing from re-usable components to safe disposable products.
Minimise cross-contamination risks:
- Sterile single-use pack
- Elimination of risk during reprocessing
- Reduce human error
Overcome limitations of tracking and traceability:
- Single-use valves come with LOT Number for documentation
Consistent performance:
- Not subject to wear and tear
- Less expensive
- Reduce reprocessing time
Regulatory Compliance & Guidance.
Single-use valves align with key regulatory standards, ensuring your hospital meets the highest safety and compliance measures:
- HTM 01-06 (5.9): Eliminates the risk of permanent accessories carrying and transferring harmful organisms.
- HTM 01-06 (5.11 & 6.14): Enables full tracking, traceability, and audit compliance with uniquely identified Lot Numbered valves.
- BSG Guidelines (4.7.2 & Page 20): Supports complete traceability of valves for each patient, in line with best decontamination practices.
