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Baptist Hospital Northeast First in Kentucky with LED Surgical Lights
 LA GRANGE, Ky., July 2007 – “The LED type of light gives us a much truer color and has much more versatility as far as decreasing shadows in the patient’s wound,” said Thomas Hart, M.D., a general surgeon who was instrumental in choosing TRUMPF iLED surgical lights for Kentucky’s Baptist Hospital Northeast. “It will also increase surgeon comfort because it burns much cooler (than the standard lights).”
The TRUMPF iLED surgical lights installed in July in the three operating suites at Baptist Hospital Northeast are the first LED surgical lights installed in Kentucky and represent the latest technology in surgical suite lighting according to a the hospital.
“The lights we replaced were installed when the hospital was built more than 20 years ago and we could no longer get parts for them,” said Barbara Ritchie, director of Surgical Services and Ambulatory Care at Baptist Northeast. “We tried several different kinds of lights during the last few months and the physicians chose the LED lights because they produce better, brighter light and use less energy.”
A press release distributed by the hospital noted the advantages of the TRUMPF iLED over halogen or gas discharge bulbs, which include greater visibility and comfort for the surgeon, decreased energy and replacement costs, and potentially better outcomes for surgery patients.
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| Wes Reed, left, and Micah Ellenbrand of GasMedix install a new LED light head in a surgical suite at Baptist Hospital Northeast in La Grange. Baptist Northeast is the first in Kentucky to have the new technology, which aids in visibility and comfort for surgeons, and reduces energy consumption. |
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| Among the benefits the hospital noted were: |
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The LED lights produce almost no heat – less than two degrees – reducing the cooling needs in the room and increasing the surgeon’s comfort. |
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The color of the light can be changed from a more yellow light to a more white light to improve visibility, to better suit the part of the body being operated on and wound depth. |
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The light produced by the TRUMPF iLED lights also increases visibility and causes less eye strain. The light output of lights is 130,000 and 160,000 lux (the measurement of light intensity falling on a surface), more intense than the 100,000 lux of full sunlight. |
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Each surgical suite has a TRUMPF iLED 5 (five-pod light) and an iLED 3 (three-Pod light). The iLED 3 contains 111 separate LED light sources; the iLED 5 contains 184. Together, they use 295 watts of electricity, less than three 100-watt household bulbs. The lights replaced used 750-1,000 watts of electricity. |
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Each of the LED units is currently rated for a service life of more than 20,000 hours, the equivalent of being on for eight hours per day for nearly seven years. |
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The use of so many different sources of light also dramatically reduces the shadows experienced in the surgical field, improving the view of the surgeon. |
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With the touch of a button from within the surgical field, the surgeon can control the color, amount and direction of light. |
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| Each light head contains from 111 to 184 separate light sources to give surgeons greater control over the amount and color of light, as well as reducing shadows. |
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For further Information on TRUMPF iLED Surgical Lights call 1-888-474-9359 or e-mail info@us.trumpf-med.com. |
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