Hospital pneumatic tube system

laboratory

Blood laboratories play a special role in every hospital worldwide, with their results forming the basis of all further medication and treatment in 90% of cases in everyday hospital life. A short waiting period between blood draw and result contributes significantly to the optimisation of patient care. A well planned pneumatic tube system from Sumetzberger reduces transport time to just a few minutes and ensures that personnel costs can be reduced by relieving courier services. With a further advantage being that carriers within the pneumatic tube system always choose the fastest and most efficient route directly to the laboratory and can be traced throughout the system. The fully automated Auto(Un)Load Bulk Sorter Solutions set new standards of sample processing in the clinical laboratory. Samples are delivered by Sumetzberger pneumatic tube carriers and overhanded directly to the ASP SortPro bulk sorter. No manual handling is nessasary. Thousands of samples are identified (barcode) and tube types, status detected and sorted. Sorting is done either according to defined parameters or to sample related information received from LIS (laboratory information system). Plausibility checks detect and sort out error samples. Afterwards they are either filled into integrated pins for manual allocation or into pneumatic tube ALS carrier for automated allocation to dezentralized laboratories. Interfaces between the hospital pneumatic tube system and laboratory lines guarantees a fully automated sample analyses process started at the pneumatic tube sending station (e.x. nurse base) to the final results of blood analysis.