Philips Healthcare Green Products

The Essential is a Patient Monitor designed specifically for improved clinical workflow and patient safety during transport of a patient in the MRI environment, while also providing improved technical and environmental performance as a stand-alone MRI pulse-oximeter compared to its predecessor, the 4500 MRI Pulse Oximeter (model 3109 series). These improvements include color touch screen operation, alarm light, wireless patient connection, lightweight portable design, flexible mounting options and an unrestricted gauss rating outside the MR system bore up to a 3 Tesla MRI System, all of which improves the clinical workflow . Compared to its predecessor, the Essential MRI Patient Monitor’s environmental benefits are its exclusion of lead-acid batteries in design, a 48% reduction in energy use, 72% reduction in product weight, 32% reduction in packaging weight and 55% improvement of the environmental impact of the total life cycle.

The green product Intellibridge EC40/80 system is of a set of hardware and software components, that is used for acquiring, transforming, mapping, and the subsequent routing of data from electronic bedside patient-care devices to the Philips IntelliVue Clinical Information Portfolio, a remote clinical information system. Intellibridge EC40/80 can serve more patient beds with one Intellibridge SC50 than its predecessor system, the Device Link, and thus more patient data is sent to the central monitoring systems from one device. This is accomplished in a smaller, lighter, more user friendly device. Compared to its predecessor, the Intellibridge System’s benefits include a 67% reduction in energy use, 13% reduction in product weight, 5% reduction in packaging weight and an improvement of the environmental impact of the total life cycle of 53%. 

The Respironics AF531 oro-nasal mask simplifies routine care in a hospital setting with features that allow clinical interventions, such as fiber optic bronchoscopy and nebulized medication delivery, while continuing to noninvasive ventilation. The AF531 CapStrap headgear supports quick removal and reapplication. The result is patient comfort, compliance and clinician ease of use. However, we didn’t stop with clinical features. Environmental and sustainability improvements were also built into the packaging requirements. Improvements included using recycled and recyclable materials, reducing package thickness and paper instruction sheets and eliminating redundant packaging and adhesive stickers. For just the outer package, the material thickness was reduced by 50% resulting in significant reduction in plastic consumption while improving accessibility to the product and sizing gauge.