The latest generation of water purification technology from Purite is enabling Siemens Medical Solutions to ensure the quality of the reagents produced for use with its blood gas analysers. Siemens Medical Solutions provides performance-driven diagnostics solutions that assist in the diagnosis, monitoring and management of disease. Its products and services incorporate the latest in science and technology to provide healthcare professionals with the vital information they need. In particular, the company's blood gas analysers are designed to improve patient care by providing medical professionals with laboratory-quality results at the point of care.
Steven Farthing, process engineer at Siemens, highlighted the importance of pure water in the make up of the reagents for use with the devices: "The quality of the water used to produce the reagents is essential to the performance and safety of our blood analysers. We needed a system capable of producing pharmaceutical-grade process water of better than 5µS/cm, in order to achieve consistently accurate results."
Steven Farthing is impressed with the results that the company has achieved from the system over the past seven years. "The Purite technology has performed consistently well since its installation in 2000. The level of support we have received has been excellent, and Purite services the equipment annually to check that the system continues to run at its optimum performance."
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