Two Dimensional Instruments
Monitor a refrigerator & a freezer
- Auto Dialer calls you on alarm condition.
- NIST traceable calibration available.
- High and low temperature alarm
- No paper, pens, or maintenance.
- Monitors two vaccine refrigerators or freezers.
- Displays & prints a one year temperature chart.
- Battery backup for power failures.
- No monthly fees.
Vaccine
Refrigerator Monitor
Protect your Vaccines 24/7
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CDC Estimates $20 million a year waste from poor refrigeration
Thousands revaccinated after shots spoil
In one recent case in Sioux City, Iowa, more than 1,000 families were notified by letter and telephone that they needed to get their children revaccinated. State officials found that the refrigerator at the clinic that administered the shots repeatedly dropped below freezing over a 17-month period in 2005 and 2006, potentially ruining the vaccines stored there. "We just didn't notice it," said Dr. Ray Sturdevant, president of the Prairie Pediatrics and Adolescent Clinic.
Poor refrigeration has been blamed for similar problems elsewhere around the country over the past 2 1/2 years: In St. Cloud, Minn., a clinic had to revaccinate 8,600 patients, most of them children. In Lane County, Ore., 500 children and adults had to get another shot. In western Florida, it happened to about 250 kids. Read the Full article
Continuous Monitoring and Alarm parameters
The Vaccine Refrigerator Monitor is a completely unique instrument that stores and displays 1.5 years of temperature history on its LCD display. It can monitors the temperature of two different vaccine refrigerators, (or a vaccine refrigerator and a vaccine freezer, or two different vaccine refrigerators) taking a temperature sample every ten minutes. The vaccine refrigerator monitor stores the temperatures in RAM memory and draws a chart on the large display. The Vaccine Refrigerator Monitor can be used with any refrigerator or freezer. You can even use it on a home style refrigerator.
The Best Protection for your Vaccines
The vaccine refrigerator monitor
has an alarm can be set to your specifications,
typically to 2°C and 8°C for vaccine refrigerators and -15°C for
vaccine freezers so if the temperature gets too warm or cold you will
get a phone call. In fact it can call four different
people. All alarms can be set with a delay time
as well as a temperature so that false alarms are eliminated.
Opening the door of your vaccine refrigerator will not set off the
alarm.
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The Auto Dialer Calls 4 Phone Numbers
The optional Auto Dialer calls you if the vaccine refrigerator temperature rises above or falls below the safe level. It calls four phone numbers (i.e. cell, pager, answering machine) to leave a message. And it will keep calling each number until someone answers.
Downloads to your computer for printing or archiving
Most certifying agencies now require documentation of each vaccine refrigerator and vaccine freezer. They want to see the temperature history for each, and they want you to know if a unit gets too hot or cold and then returns to normal while you aren't around. And they want to see the actual temperature record when they do an audit. The Vaccine Refrigerator Monitor supplies all the documentation necessary to satisfy state inspectors. If you are JCAHO certified the charts printed from the Vaccine Refrigerator Monitor provide complete documentation for the inspectors.
The Vaccine Refrigerator Monitor displays a temperature history right on its display in addition to downloading the data into your computer system. In fact since the vaccine refrigerator monitor shows more than 1 year of temperature history on its display many inspectors will be satisfied with seeing the data on there rather than requiring a printed record. This saves you the time and trouble of downloading the vaccine refrigerator monitor to a computer.
If you do need a printed record you can plug a laptop into the Vaccine Refrigerator Monitor every nine months and have the temperature history copied over in minutes.
Install It and Forget It!
Compare the Vaccine Refrigerator Monitor to alternative ways of tracking temperature. It is not only the least expensive alternative, but there are no ongoing costs. You don't have to buy paper charts or pens, the is no monthly fee, and best of all your personnel don't spend time writing down temperatures or looking for new charts and pens every week.
Specifications for Vaccine Refrigerator Monitor FAQ Application Notes
Article on Monitoring Temperature of Vaccine Refrigerators and Freezers