This document provides an overview of Paladin Medical Products, LLC, which designs and manufactures equipment management systems for clinical environments. Some key points: - Paladin has decades of experience in clinical equipment interface design and problem solving. - Their rail-based systems are designed to provide flexibility and control for clinicians over the layout and attachment of devices in patient rooms. - Integration of equipment rails can help facilities achieve process improvement goals by ensuring clinicians have the right tools in the right places at the right times. - Paladin offers a wide variety of mounts, adapters, and accessories that can attach most any clinical device or piece of equipment to their rail systems, helping support infection control and allowing easy re

1. Paladin Medical Products, LLC.
Equipment Management for
Clinical Environments

2. Founded originally as Fairfield Medical
Products in the late 1960’s Paladin has
a history of clinical expertise.
Paladin products are
designed to retrofit on to
existing Fairfield Rail
installations.
We have a long history of:
* Clinical interface
* Problem solving
* Exceeding client expectations
Infection Control has been a
high design focus ever since
the
product was developed.

3. Shared Responsibility
We have a shared
responsibility to provide a
design with technology
giving clinicians control over
their environments AFTER
THE FACT of construction
and installation.
After the completion of
construction, clinical teams
are left to “deal” with
whatever was conceived
during the design process.
They should be given tools
to “manage” the
environment.

4. Technology Integration:
Those who get it…..
Humanscale Stryker
Healthcare Facilities
Seamless integration of various
technology.
These companies have integrated a rail
system as a standard in many of their
applications.
Each supports the other with a basic
common element, the equipment rail.

5. A seamless approach to
equipment management.
You can attach the rail on
to anything….and you can
attach anything on to the
rail

6. Triangle Of Care, the relationship
between Caregiver, Patient
and Technology must be
kept in the forefront of
everything we do.

7. With that in mind . . .
We have Good news,
and we have Bad
news!

8. The Good News is that after a
construction or renovation project,
you will move into a new
environment and will have
new carpeting, new lighting,
new furniture and new wallpaper etc.

9. “Utopia General Hospital”
The goal of every design professional.

10. The Bad News comes in the
form of a question:
Can you name one hose, tube,
cable or wire that is going to
go away just because you are
moving into a new unit?

11. A patient room is nothing more than a
dysfunctional application of dissimilar
technologies!
Results of traditional designs
Headwall
Monitor
Infusion Pumps
Patient
Ventilator
Electronic
Medical
Records
Med Gas
Supplies/Cart

12. A hose and a tube today, will still be
a hose and tube, the day you move
into the new unit.

13. A Patient Room must become an
organized, flexible, adaptable and
expandable environment
Todays possibilities
Electronic
Par Level Infusion
Monitor Medical
supplies
Med Gas Headwall Ventilator
Pumps
Records
Patient

14. Architectural systems will be challenged to
touch upon all aspects of healthcare delivery,
not only today, but through the lifecycle of the areas in
question.
What contribution
will choosing an
equipment
management
system make to my
hospital over time?

15. Process Improvement Today
There are several proven varieties of
integrated process improvement to
extend the lessons of the original
Toyota “Kaizan” program into
healthcare facilities.
At a clinical level, the basic key
elements of process improvement
are as simple as providing:
WHAT you need….
WHERE you need it and
WHEN you need it.
Integration of a rail and accessories
program is the perfect facilitator for
process improvement initiatives,
even if not in place at the time of
design.

16. Integration of Equipment Rail in to aesthetic
design. Simple and unobtrusive
is key to preserving the value of the owner’s
investment

17. Finding a balance
between form and
function, Paladin
Equipment Management
Rail allows the design
team to incorporate any
Wilsonart color into the
equipment rail solution.

18. EQUIPMENT MANAGEMENT AND
INFECTION CONTROL APPLICATIONS

19. Traditional “norms”: Contractors spend
hours aligning and attaching devices
mandatory in patient care areas to the wall
with “standard” anchor devices.

20. The resulting damage is seldom realized
until changes are made, either through user demand
or supply channel contract modifications

21. All too often we see issues
we like to call the
“Swiss Cheese Syndrome”
……common in almost
every facility.
Corian

22. Or the….”I didn’t think that double
sided tape would stick that well.“
Also, the ever popular
magic gloves box trick.

23. The stark reality of the damage, especially
when made to dry wall or laminate, is both time
consuming and costly from both repair and lost
revenue points of view.

24. The utilization of rail and accessories
for mounting hand sanitizers, wipes,
sharps containers and paper towel
dispensers achieves a major goal…..
…Obsolescence has
been obsoleted!!!!

25. As seen in Materials Management Magazine.
Note the difference in set up over the sink between
the picture on the left, and the one on the right.
EVIDENCE BASED SOLUTIONS:
These changes took place after only
6 months from the opening of a
600 bed facility, and were made possible
without shutting the rooms down,
through the use of a rail system.

26. The use of the rail takes the guess work away
from the A & D component of the process.
No longer does it matter what it looks like on paper….the
users get to deploy the devices as they see fit, in the
actual space it is being used.

27. Architectural detail:
Backing at 52”
…..devices by
others….the “EASY
BUTTON” for
architects and
equipment planners
alike.

28. Additional rails may be added at
any time should more space be
required or technology changes.

29. Non-code compliant modifications,
leading to compromised
safety issues. If we do not provide
adequate flexibility
and adaptability on the
front end of the design
process, users will
make it work some
how.

30. The bedside shown in the previous slide went
from worst case scenario to best practice,
economically and easily, with no disruption of
patient care.
Simple expansion of
services, on demand by the
end user will guard against
any unforeseen future
technology.

31. Gas expansion can be done NON-INVASIVELY
by a simple addition of a gas
block hose and connector to an existing in wall
outlet.
Prepare for surge populations
with the addition of rail and
gas blocks to any waiting area
supported by portable tanks.

32. Blocks can be configured to meet existing
supply configurations….any style outlet on
any wall.
University of Florida, Shands Alachua General Hospital

33. Splitter blocks can be added to existing
outlets to multiply services and then taking
the weight load of the actual flow meters and put
them on the rail via gas blocks.

34. 3 hook hanger with 9
clips

35. Large wire basket often used to stock
par levels of supplies for new admissions.

36. Single and 3 hook hangers for use
with resuscitation devices and other
hanging supplies.

37. 6 clip organizer for placement of
“stat” use supplies, reduces infection
control risk common with drawer use.

38. Product specific mounts for the Welsh
Allyn 767/777 series of
diagnostic instruments.

39. GCX adapter plate to attach owner
furnished GCX channel to a Paladin rail.

40. Channel adapter kits may also mount vertical
channels from other manufacturers such as
Humanscale and Ergotron.

41. Swing arm pole holder for use in a GCX
channel with infusion/syringe pumps or
Vapotherm device.

42. The large angle shelf for additional
patient monitors or other
clinical support devices.

43. Fold down shelf for procedures
or equipment placement.

44. Applied infection control mounting
for any manufacturers brand.

45. Holder for Sharps container
and paper towel dispenser.

46. Single gloves box holder

47. Double gloves box holder

48. A variety of 3 box gloves
holders

49. Quad mount gloves containers
or just the kit to adapt the hospital’s existing
wire holders, horizontal and vertical.

50. Miscellaneous mounting
adapters for a variety of
respiratory support devices.
Magnehelic
manometer
mount

51. YES WE CAN…..really we can,
mount anything, anywhere.
Telephones
Razor and thermometer
Emesis bag Bar Code
mount Scanner

52. THANK YOU
For your time and
consideration.
www.paladinmp.com
321-704-2311