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Kinder Hospitals launches high tech blood storage facility in Bengaluru

Bengaluru,2 December 2024: Kinder Women’s Hospital and Fertility Center, Bengaluru, has launched its state-of-the-art Blood Storage Facility, equipped with high-end technology to ensure safe, efficient storage and management of blood supplies.

This significant addition aims to enhance the hospital’s ability to provide immediate access to life-saving blood products, particularly for emergency deliveries, critical maternal care, paediatric emergencies and fertility treatments.

The new blood storage facility represents a major leap forward in healthcare infrastructure at Kinder Women’s Hospital and Fertility Center, Bengaluru. This facility is exclusively designed to address the unique needs of women, children, and fertility patients, with a particular focus on ensuring timely access to blood during high-risk deliveries and complex surgeries. It will also support critical care for infants and children, ensuring that blood components are readily available in urgent situations.

In cases of emergency deliveries, particularly high-risk pregnancies, blood loss can be significant and life-threatening. The blood storage facility Kinder Women’s Hospital and Fertility Center, will ensure that blood products are immediately available in cases such as postpartum hemorrhage, cesarean sections or surgical complications. The facility is equipped to support emergency interventions, significantly reducing waiting time and enhancing patient outcomes in life-threatening situations.

Kinder Hospitals launches high tech blood storage facility in Bengaluru

The blood storage facility houses several essential blood components that are critical in emergency care. These components will be stored using high-end refrigeration equipment, ensuring that they are kept at the right temperatures to maintain their effectiveness. The key  blood components available include:

  • Whole Blood: Contains red blood cells, plasma, and platelets, and is used in cases of severe blood loss, providing a balanced restoration of blood volume.
  • Red Blood Cells (RBCs): Used primarily for patients with anemia or significant blood loss, RBC transfusions help restore the body’s ability to carry oxygen to tissues and organs.
  • Platelets: Essential for patients suffering from low platelet counts, often due to medical treatments or diseases. Platelets help prevent excessive bleeding.
  • Plasma: The liquid part of blood, rich in proteins, used to treat patients with clotting disorders, burns, or in shock management.
  • Cryoprecipitate: A component of plasma rich in clotting factors, crucial for patients with bleeding disorders, including hemophilia.

“The introduction of this facility is part of the hospital’s ongoing commitment to providing comprehensive, high-quality healthcare for women, children and fertility patients. The facility ensures that the hospital can respond quickly and effectively in emergencies, improving safety and treatment outcomes, particularly during critical deliveries and surgeries,” said Shreevalli V- COO, Kinder Women’s Hospital and Fertility Centre, Bengaluru.

The high-end equipment used in the facility includes advanced blood storage refrigerators, freezers, and blood management systems that ensure proper temperature control and monitoring. This advanced technology ensures that all blood products remain viable and safe for transfusion, meeting the highest standards of care.

Trends in Wardrobe Designs

Mr. Sarang Gada

By – Mr. Sarang Gada, Managing Director – Qubero

Wardrobes have an important role in the field of Interior Design, not only for their functional purposes but also as a statement piece that contributes to enhancing the visual appeal of your space. Over the years, wardrobe design trends have witnessed a significant evolution, reflecting changes in lifestyle, technology, and design preferences. Let’s take a look at the most recent trends in wardrobe design, such as conventional closet systems or new modular installation systems.

1. Minimalist Elegance: Minimalism, characterized by clean lines, sleek finishes, and clutter-free spaces, continues to be a dominant trend in the design of the wardrobe. With the rise of minimalist lifestyles, wardrobes are now designed to maximize storage efficiency while maintaining a visually uncluttered appearance. Increasingly, homeowners looking for a minimal aesthetic are choosing built-in closet solutions that consist of concealing storage possibilities like slide doors and concealable compartments.

2. Customization and Personalization: When it comes to designing your clothes, one size doesn’t always fit all. With regard to their specific needs and preferences, homeowners increasingly opt for a personalized solution. In accordance with individual requirements, modular wardrobes offer the flexibility to adapt the layout, storage configuration, and accessories. In addition, customers will be able to see and customize their wardrobes before they make a purchase with the advent of Digital Design Tools that improve the overall customer experience.

3. Smart storage solution: The clothes are becoming more intelligent at this age of sophisticated technology. The way we organize and access our goods is changing with new storage solutions, such as the mobility racks, sensor-activated lighting, or automatic closet organization system. Smart wardrobes, which are a desirable choice for modern homes, not only maximize the use of space but also simplify the daily routine.

4. Integration of technology: In order to improve functionality and convenience, technology has been seamlessly incorporated into the current wardrobe design. Technology-driven features are adding a touch of luxury and sophistication to the wardrobes, from integrated charging stations and built-in speakers to automated inventory systems. Smart mirrors with built-in displays and virtual wardrobe apps further elevate the user experience, allowing for seamless outfit selection and styling.

By integrating smart storage solutions, sustainable materials, and configurable modular systems, Qubero is revolutionizing the way wardrobes are designed. We offer their clients a wide range of options by adapting to every different client’s needs combining functionality and visual appeal.

Finally, the evolution of wardrobe is influenced by a wider shift towards lifestyle, technology, and design style. Today’s wardrobes are a perfect fusion of functionality and style, from minimalist elegance to smart storage solutions, customization, sustainability and technology integration. In the coming years, as homeowners continue to focus on efficiency, aesthetics, and personalization, we can expect trends in the design of wardrobe to continue to evolve, pushing the boundaries of creativity and innovation.

Pure Storage Introduces New Top End FlashArray Model, Bringing Power and Scale With Unparalleled Simplicity to the Enterprise

Pure Storage® (NYSE: PSTG), the IT pioneer that delivers storage-as-a-service in a multi-cloud world, today announced FlashArray//XL, the newest member of the FlashArray family, designed for mission-critical, platinum tier enterprise applications – from massive databases to containerized and cloud-native apps. FlashArray//XL delivers unmatched performance and scale with a nearly 80% improvement in IOPS.

With the pace of business only increasing, application demand can shoot up in an instant and the need for new apps to be deployed requires IT to work in hours, not months. Previously, the largest enterprises had to scale their top-tier applications with legacy technology that required high management complexity, high power and energy costs, and disruptive forklift upgrades.

Now, with the new FlashArray//XL and Pure Fusion – Pure’s self-service, autonomous Storage-as-Code platform – Pure continues to add enterprise-grade scale to its promise of subscription storage that easily evolves to keep IT infrastructure agile and up-to-date.

FlashArray//XL delivers:

Strength to run the most demanding business services: Accelerate enterprise workloads with maximum performance even as they scale to operate at increased loads, with 100% more host connectivity and two times more volume support on a single array.

Cloud-like model for deploying new apps quickly and easily: Designed to work in concert, Pure Fusion, and FlashArray//XL give enterprises Storage-as-Code access to cloud-scale, enabling platinum-level storage tiers and data policies with robust tools to optimize storage pools and workload placement.

Efficiency and density to consolidate applications for maximum TCO and green data center standards: Enable workload consolidation on fewer arrays to simplify operations, reduce rack space requirements, and significantly reduce power consumption and cooling costs.

Always-on data protection that’s savvy to ransomware threats: Ensure that data stored on FlashArray//XL is secure, available, and easily recoverable after disruptions, including malicious attacks.
Future-proof with Evergreen subscription: Get immediate access to ever-improving capabilities with a right-size guarantee and non-disruptive upgrades and capacity expansions as storage needs evolve.

FlashArray //XL and Pure Fusion were built to meet demand from new customers who wanted to standardize their storage environments on the simplicity of the Pure subscription model but needed new levels of scale. This demand is already seeing early validation with pre-release orders to standardize top enterprise workloads on FlashArray//XL arrays, as customers eliminate the last remnants of their legacy Dell EMC footprint.

“Customers expect a new, modern way to scale enterprise storage. FlashArray//XL is a clear shot across the bow of legacy storage vendors by combining the high-end scale of a true enterprise-class array with the scale-out agility of the cloud operating model.” — Shawn Hansen, VP and GM, FlashArray, Pure Storage

“For top tier applications like massive databases, enterprises need maximum performance and density, but they also want the control of their own datacenter and the agility and flexibility of the cloud. Enterprise-class storage solutions like the FlashArray//XL that are coupled with the cloud operating model give customers the best of both worlds.” — Eric Burgener, Research Vice President, Enterprise Infrastructure Practice, IDC

“The announcement of the FlashArray//XL series underscores Pure’s unwavering commitment to delivering market-leading storage services. It is exciting and exceptionally gratifying to see a partner with the same dedication to supporting even the most demanding workloads. It’s clear that the new //XL platform will ensure continued support to our growing and expanding data services portfolio and ecosystem.” — James Laming, VP, Global Head of Infrastructure, Options Technology

Available now, FlashArray//XL delivers up to 5.78 PB effective capacity, as low as 150µs latency, and up to 36GB/s throughput, with industry-leading 5:1 data reduction average, 10:1 total efficiency, and proven 99.9999% availability in a 5U platform.