When it comes to bedpan disinfection in healthcare environments, anyone tasked with purchasing an automatic bedpan washer needs to ensure they make a careful choice after completing their due diligence. The reality is that in every hospital ward or care home across the United Kingdom, infection control is a never-ending battle that must be fought with the best possible tools. Every touchpoint, every procedure, and every piece of shared equipment presents a potential vulnerability. And it could be argued that managing human waste poses the biggest challenges due to the processing of reusable utensils.
For many years, healthcare facilities have faced the same dilemma: how to handle infectious waste containers quickly, thoroughly, and safely without exposing staff to hazardous aerosols or overburdening them with tedious manual labour, where fatigue or boredom can lead to human error, cross-contamination, and poor practice.
This is where Dekomed, a leading provider of medical sanitation products, has the perfect solution. The Deko 190 series. Much more than just another piece of utility room hardware, the Deko 190 has firmly established itself as the industry’s benchmark for bedpan washer disinfectors.
Automation is The Future of Enhanced Infection Control
Before explaining the various benefits that the Deko 190 brings to the table, it is essential that any purchase manager understands what has come before. Historically, any sanitisation cleaning process relied on manual rinsing, slop sinks or low-level sanitisers. Unfortunately, any and all of these methods come with inherent and significant risks.
- Aerosolised Pathogens: Manual spraying forces dangerous microscopic droplets into the breathing zone of staff.
- Human Error: Varying water temperatures or rushed cleaning times can leave highly resilient bacteria behind.
- Cross-Contamination: Touching handles, taps, and open waste bins invites the spread of pathogens across the clean zones of a ward.
The DEKO 190 completely transforms this cleaning process workflow. It acts as an enclosed, automated, hands-free barrier system. Staff simply place the soiled utensils into the chamber, close the door, and let the machine handle the emptying, flushing, detergent washing, and high-temperature thermal disinfection autonomously. By eliminating manual intervention, the machine mitigates the primary problems for healthcare-associated infections (HAIs).
Unbeatable Infection Control: Defeating C. diff and High-Risk Pathogens
When it comes to assessing a washer-disinfector, the ultimate test revolves around its microbiological efficacy. Speed, whilst important, is completely irrelevant if resilient spores survive the cleaning cycle.
This is where the DEKO 190 reigns supreme. Backed by rigorous, independent laboratory studies (including validations from Germany’s renowned HygCen GmbH), the DEKO 190 has demonstrated a complete, flawless removal of Clostridioides difficile (C. diff) spores alongside other high-risk pathogens.
The machine accomplishes this through a precise combination of mechanical power and thermal engineering:
- The Spray Configuration: The wash chamber features a highly targeted arrangement of 3 rotating and 8 fixed spray jets. This configuration guarantees that high-pressure water contacts every hidden crevice, internal curve, and rim of complex utensils, eliminating blind spots where waste might cling.
- High-Volume Mechanical Flushing: Driven by a powerful 600-litre-per-minute recirculation pump, the initial flush clears heavy debris instantly.
- Adjustable Thermal Disinfection: The integrated, non-pressurised boiler generates intense steam that is forced through the water tank, internal pipework, and the outlet during every single cycle. This self-disinfecting design ensures that the machine itself never becomes a breeding ground for bacteria. Furthermore, its thermal efficiency allows for adjustable A0 values up to 13,000, easily exceeding standard regulatory minimums to provide maximum defence during critical disease outbreaks.
Patented Freshwater Recirculation: Eco-Friendly Engineering
When highly-powered medical washers first entered the marketplace, they established a reputation for being resource hogs, having to use large amounts of both water and electricity in order to deliver the required results.
Dekomed invested significant time and resources to tackle these two flaws, and the result is its unique patented freshwater recirculation principle.
Rather than constantly pulling and then having to heat large volumes of separate cold water to optimise operating costs, their intelligent system ensures the optimisation of water usage throughout a multi-stage cycle. The system delivers exceptional pressure and cleaning efficacy while dramatically minimising total volume consumption.
This, in turn, means that the Deko 190 is not only excellent at removing harmful bacteria and eliminating cross-infection, but it is also an incredibly cost-effective, environmentally responsible alternative to both older washing systems and single-use disposable macerators, which frequently cause catastrophic, expensive blockages in hospital and care home plumbing networks.
An Automatic Bedpan Washer Featuring a High Capacity Within a Compact Footprint
Space in a hospital utility room or dirty utility suite is always at a premium. A machine that takes up half a room causes traffic bottlenecks and slows down ward operations.
The DEKO 190 has been brilliantly engineered to offer maximum processing power with minimal physical intrusion. It occupies a modest floor space of just W600 x D630 mm. Yet, despite this compact exterior, the internal chamber capacity is massive. In a single cycle, the DEKO 190 can automatically empty, wash, and disinfect:
- 2 standard bedpans with lids AND
- 4 urine bottles simultaneously
Additionally, the unit features an integrated, drop-down shelf. When lowered, this shelf transforms the chamber into a versatile utility washer capable of accommodating up to 4 hand wash basins, a mop bucket with its seating ring, kidney dishes, raised toilet seats, suction bottles, or vases. This versatility means a ward doesn’t need three separate specialised machines—the DEKO 190 serves as a comprehensive, all-in-one decontamination hub.
Thermal Disinfection Done Properly – Contact Dekomed Today
When it comes to disinfection, there is no room for error. As you have read above, the Dekomed 190 ticks all the boxes, which is why it has become one of the market-leading products in the industry.
If you are interested in a demonstration, have any questions or need to discuss our products further, then contact our friendly and knowledgeable customer service team today on (0)161 483 7333