Portable incubator with surgical mattress, and incubator carrying bag

Made:
2008 in Wardenburg, Garbsen and Potters Bar
maker:
PAX-Bags X-CEN-TEK GmbH & Co. KG
,
BuW Schmidt GmbH
and
Advanced Healthcare Technology Limited
Babypod II incubator for acute infant transfer

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Babypod II incubator for acute infant transfer
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Portable incubator, ‘Babypod II’, for transporting neonatal paediatric patients weighing less than 8Kg, by Advanced Healthcare Technology Limited, Potters Bar, Hertfordshire, United Kingdom, and ‘Vacuform’ surgical mattress by B.u.W. Schmidt GmbH., Garbsen, Germany, and specialist carrying bag for ‘Babypod II’, by PAX-Bags X-CEN-TEK GmbH & Co. KG, Wardenburg, Germany, 2008

Details

Category:
Emergency Medicine
Object Number:
2011-13
Materials:
plastic (unidentified), cotton (fibre), polyvinyl chloride (PVC), polystyrene, metal (unknown), steel (metal) and carbon-fibre
Measurements:
overall (incubator): 320 mm x 1060 mm x 400 mm, 8kg
overall (incubator inside carrying bag): 410 mm x 1130 mm x 420 mm, 10kg
overall (carrying bag alone, open): 300 mm x 1160 mm x 1115 mm, 2kg
type:
incubator, mattress and bag - container
credit:
Advanced Healthcare Technologies Limited