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Enhancing Operating Room Efficiency and Safety: The Three Key Factors of an Effective Boom System
Since introducing our first boom system in 1993, Skytron has been at the forefront of enhancing crucial aspects of clinical environments. This write-up explores three key factors contributing to an effective boom system: promoting safety and efficiency, ensuring simplicity and consistency, and providing design and planning support.

Promotes Safety and Efficiency:
Operating rooms often have a multitude of equipment and clutter, posing potential hazards to caregivers and patients alike. Boom systems serve as space management tools, creating safer and more productive environments by keeping cords and hoses out of the operating field. This reduces the risk of accidents and allows faster turnaround times between procedures.
A well-designed boom system offers versatility to support different procedures. Long arms enable equipment to be parked when unused and easily brought in when needed, increasing case scheduling capacity and flexibility. Skytron’s Freedom boom system exemplifies this, providing up to five arms on a single mounting structure, including equipment arms and light arms. Caregivers can focus on their tasks without distractions with smooth and drift-free maneuverability.

Simple & Consistent:
The simplicity and consistency of a boom system’s operation are crucial for seamless workflow in the OR. Skytron’s Active Assist technology ensures smooth and consistent operation, reducing the risk of errors and enhancing user experience. Active Assist simplifies maneuvering by automatically adjusting resistance, allowing caregivers to concentrate on patient care.
Our Freedom Booms also offer a more effective space management solution by rotating carriers within their footprint. This minimizes the chances of collisions and provides greater flexibility in equipment placement. Long-reach and multiple arms per mount offer increased positioning options, ensuring that equipment can be precisely placed where needed. The equipment carriers and anesthesia booms house electricity, gases, and video integration faceplates to put what you need where you need it. The result is improved efficiency and productivity in the OR, translating to better patient outcomes.

Design and Planning Support:
Effective boom systems go beyond their physical attributes; they also integrate seamlessly into the overall design and layout of the OR. Skytron’s design and planning support services leverage a comprehensive range of solutions to create spaces that meet customers’ specific needs. Here is an example of a facility installation in its early phases where our representative firm, Stevens-Moon & Associates, partnered with MedCore Construction to test boom mounts prior to installation to ensure there is less than .15 degrees of deflection and no drifting.

By collaborating with clients from the initial planning stages, Skytron ensures that boom systems are optimally integrated into the OR layout, maximizing efficiency and functionality.

The benefits of Skytron’s design and planning support include lower costs, better outcomes, and long-term procedural flexibility. By customizing boom system configurations to match customers’ requirements, we enable ORs to operate at peak performance while adapting to evolving healthcare needs.

An effective boom system enhances the operating room’s safety, efficiency, and productivity. Our Freedom Boom systems empower caregivers to deliver the highest quality of care while optimizing OR performance by promoting safety and efficiency, ensuring simplicity and consistency, and providing design and planning support.

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