Herlev Hospital has increased the efficiency and reliability of preparing two-compartment agar plates with a Mediajet vario Automatic Media Preparation System from Danish healthcare provider Integra.
Using two-compartment petri dishes can reduce the amount of required agar in a number of applications, but pouring biplates by hand is time-consuming and inefficient.
The Mediajet fitted with biplate filling option offers an efficient and reliable solution for preparing two-compartment Petri dishes automatically.
Herlev Hospital, close to Copenhagen in Denmark, provides a range of health care and hospital services to diverse patients and is principally focused on providing emergency treatment services for acute diseases.
The hospital caters to more than 700,000 people across the Ballerup, Gladsaxe, Herlev, Egedal, Lyngby, Rudersdal and capital region areas of Denmark.
Anette Banke, senior pharmaconomist at Herlev Hospital, said: 'We have had our Mediajet vario with biplate option up and running for two years filling more than 70,000 biplates annually.
'We also use the Mediajet to fill standard 90mm petri dishes.
'Our system is running from morning until evening almost every day yet we have never experienced any problems with the Mediajet - you could almost say it takes care of itself! 'This gives us chance to fulfil other tasks in the laboratory while it is running, increasing our laboratory productivity.' The Mediajet vario with biplate option offers the flexibility of high-throughput filling of petri dishes of various sizes, petri dishes with two compartments and test tubes of various diameters and length.
Using a proven mechanical dish-guidance system, monitored by a set of sensors throughout the filling process, the compact Mediajet vario provides reliable walk-away operation.
Operational downtime and media loss due to 'dish jams' resulting from variations in the diameter, shape and rim profile of the disposable plastic petri dishes are eliminated.
