Why Are Outdated Medical Refrigerators and Freezers Risky?
Medical refrigerators and freezers are used for storing blood samples, tissues, organs, medications, vaccines, and other drugs. Due to the sensitive nature of the medical material that they store, medical refrigerators and freezers need to be functional at all times.
Thus, they also experience far more wear and tear due to constant usage. If not maintained appropriately, they will soon start losing their efficiency, thereby causing significant damage to the medical components.
Let’s look at the potential risks of using an outdated medical refrigerator or freezer.
Temperature Inconsistencies:
After a certain amount of time, even the best maintained medical refrigerators and freezers will experience some level of deterioration. The most important aspect to be affected by this is the temperature maintenance capacity of the unit.
As per the CDC, medical refrigerators need to maintain a temperature between 2° to 8° Celsius. Freezer temperatures must be kept at -50° C and -15° C. When the temperature fluctuates above this level, the medical components placed in the unit will begin losing their potency.
Technological issues:
As technology improves, the medical refrigerator or freezer that you possess will start getting outdated. Thus, the units or their parts will be discontinued and thus, no longer be manufactured. This will cause hurdles in proper maintenance of the units.
Besides, older units may no longer be up to date with the current storage requirements that are revised regularly. Thus, the medical components stored within have a chance of being damaged.
Energy Efficiency:
GL-RG-4M Popular Refrigerator for Storage
If you use an older model freezer or refrigerator, you’ll need more energy to keep it cold than newer models. Since they are required to be functional without any breaks to preserve the efficiency of the medical components, they tend to consume far more energy as they start getting older. They may even require far more power to maintain required temperatures.
Medical freezers and refrigerators being manufactured today feature the latest technology that helps you keep up with the times. They help you preserve all the medical components and extend their shelf life as well.
Environmental Awareness:
Outdated medical refrigerators and freezers lead to the consumption of more power thus leading to wastage of energy as a resource. Secondly, some older generation models of refrigerators and freezers may be responsible for the release of CFCs in the environment, which can have disastrous influences on the Earth’s atmosphere.
GL-RG-25M – Popular Refrigerator used for Storage
In essence, outdated medical freezers and refrigerators not only account for damage to your valued medical articles but also to the overall health of the planet.
Having established the likely risks of using an old medical refrigerator and/or freezer, we at Aegis would like to offer our solutions that would help you tackle these risks. If you are dealing with the problems as mentioned above, we urge you to look at our products that are loaded with features.
Our medical refrigerators and freezers are designed and manufactured to be of the highest quality. They are highly efficient in terms of temperature maintenance. They feature safety systems such as alarms with remote network monitoring systems with buzzer and flashing light, safety padlock and many more features. We are also an environmentally conscious company who focus on developing products that do not harm the environment.
In order to know more about our products, call us on 1-800-796-2344 or write to us at support@aegisfridge.com