wall mounted vaccine dispenser - do you have one?

Re: wall mounted vaccine dispenser - do you have one?

Bob Russell — Sat, 26 Jan 2013 10:24:01 GMT

We have receptionists and nurses for that!

(Ducking to avoid heavy objects being thrown at me in the office!!)

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Michael Woodhouse — Sat, 26 Jan 2013 10:18:19 GMT

[quote user="Gerry Henry"]Ours makes the tea as well.[/quote]

I'll ring the MSD rep on Monday. Got to have me one of those!

Re: wall mounted vaccine dispenser - do you have one?

Gerry Henry — Sat, 26 Jan 2013 10:12:35 GMT

[quote user="James Laidlaw"]

Is this just a fridge that is stuck to the wall? Or does it dispense the vaccine for you? What's the big benefit over say, a functional fridge...?

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Ours makes the tea as well.

Re: wall mounted vaccine dispenser - do you have one?

Bob Russell — Sat, 26 Jan 2013 09:42:25 GMT

The one I looked at seemed too much of a gimmick.

Our vaccine fridge has a warning over or under temperature alarm and temperature logger. The main plus with the Merck one was it would have been FOC if we used Nobivac vaccines!

Nice idea and a heck of a lot better than getting a box of vaccines out of the fridge for surgery and putting them back at the end as we used to do years ago!

Re: wall mounted vaccine dispenser - do you have one?

James Laidlaw — Sat, 26 Jan 2013 09:29:31 GMT

Is this just a fridge that is stuck to the wall? Or does it dispense the vaccine for you? What's the big benefit over say, a functional fridge...?

Re: wall mounted vaccine dispenser - do you have one?

Gerry Henry — Fri, 25 Jan 2013 19:51:35 GMT

They're good providing you don't heat the room too much, don't install it next to a radiator, take it off the wall weekly and vacuum the air filter and, most importantly, thoroughly brush the two impellers until they're clean. Thermometer slips into spare slide.

Re: wall mounted vaccine dispenser - do you have one?

Chris Geddes — Fri, 25 Jan 2013 17:52:57 GMT

[quote user="Rajat"]

We have one in every room and they are brilliant - our GP was very impressed when she came with her dog for a vaccine, as they didn't have one in their surgery!

Will send you details when next at work (tuesday)

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There's probably a very good reason for that. Human products must be stored in a refrigerator complying with RPSGB standards. I don't think a wall chiller would meet the guidelines.

Re: wall mounted vaccine dispenser - do you have one?

Alan Tevendale — Fri, 25 Jan 2013 15:50:15 GMT

We tried these for a while but found that a few of them did develop faults and were not reliable on temperatures. We've since gone back to using a proper pharmaceutical fridge and found that to be much more reliable.

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Emily Nightingale — Fri, 25 Jan 2013 15:27:48 GMT

Hi! We have had the Intervet/Mrack ones in two of the practices I have worked in and both have been dodgy and unable to maintain constant temps. The temp is recorded by a device that sits in one of the holders where the vaccines go and has a USB port so can download info to a computer.

They were good however, when they were working reliably and you cant fault the easy access and grabbing vaccines withough having to stoop down to the fridge.

Re: wall mounted vaccine dispenser - do you have one?

Rajat — Fri, 25 Jan 2013 13:39:23 GMT

Not the intervet ones..not sure of the make right now..we have a sensor inside the fridge with the display placed externally...

Re: wall mounted vaccine dispenser - do you have one?

Bob Russell — Fri, 25 Jan 2013 13:25:03 GMT

If they are the Intervet ones - how do you monitor temperatures?

(Now Merck!)

Re: wall mounted vaccine dispenser - do you have one?

Rajat — Fri, 25 Jan 2013 13:04:18 GMT

We have one in every room and they are brilliant - our GP was very impressed when she came with her dog for a vaccine, as they didn't have one in their surgery!

Will send you details when next at work (tuesday)