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Supplying a room with materials and products without cross-contamination or other forms of inconvenience to the patient or employee? A pass-through cabinet is needed for that. The different environments in which a pass-through cabinet is required require the integration of different components. INTOS has been manufacturing and assembling various versions of pass-through cabinets for patient rooms, clean rooms, laboratories and intensive care units (ICUs), among others, for decades.
Using a pass-through cabinet in different environments with corresponding requirements requires different designs. For example, in certain patient rooms, such as within the neonatology department, it is necessary to load products as silently as possible without creating a nuisance for patients and carers. Depending on the degree of sound insulation required, we use various materials to best dampen the noise, such as various rubber edges, thicker door and certain hinges. In a clean room or an ICU, the pass-through cabinet is always a cabinet with a window and an interlock system to prevent the doors on both sides of the cabinet from being opened at the same time. It also requires an air filtration system connected to the existing air system.
Air tightness and air pressure are crucial for effective operation of the pass-through cabinet. Getting the pass-through box fully airtight is often the biggest concern of our clients. To guarantee airtightness during installation, we always have intensive contact with the contractor. This allows us to exclude a margin of error in the dimensions and our pass-through box always fits exactly in the recess in the wall.
Sometimes there are also air pressure differences between two rooms separated by the pass-through box. In that case, we fine-tune the exact construction including, among other things, the choice of hinges with the client.
Tailored to the environments, we use different materials from which we build the cabinet. For instance, a pass-through cabinet in a laboratory always consists of wood or Volkern, while in a clean room or IC it is by definition built of Volkern. We can also add lead to the design of the cabinet to make it radiation-resistant. The choice of material does not limit the aesthetic possibilities, e.g. the use of colour.
Like our other medical products, our pass-through cabinets can also be made radiation-proof. In this realisation, coordination with the contractor is again necessary. By coordinating extensively with the contractor, we can ensure that the lead from the other parts of the building construction is directly connected to the pass-through cabinet. And a radiation leak is therefore excluded.
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