Veterinary Monitoring Equipment
Vet Data Loggers
Devices Suitable for Veterinary Temperature Monitoring
Data loggers provide hassle-free, automated temperature monitoring. They offer a cost-effective, compact vet monitoring solution that is similar to having an additional employee, working around the clock to ensure your temperature conditions are within set parameters.
Veterinary clinics and hospitals house temperature-sensitive vaccines, medications and biological samples. All of these, are stored within specific temperature and humidity ranges to ensure they maintain efficacy during storage.
Applications can span beyond the medical storage of products and into various other areas of the veterinary clinic, including surgical and recovery rooms. Here ambient temperatures are often required to create a consistent climate for surgical sterilisation and recovery.
Transportation temperature monitoring and laboratory temperature monitoring systems are also vital applications of vet data loggers. With controlled environments being crucial to the transport of veterinary care products and laboratories receiving many samples from such veterinary clinics, data loggers and monitoring devices must account for various aspects beyond the clinic room.
Withnell Sensors has a wide range of options to choose from, allowing you to find the ideal solution for your needs.
Vet Data Loggers for RCVS Compliance
The Practice Standard Scheme (PSS) from the Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons promotes high standards of veterinary care across all UK practices. Maintaining compliance with this scheme highlights ongoing commitment to automation and traceable record keeping, helping to rule out any errors in manual processes.
The quality assurance standard allows practices and clinics to achieve a tiered accreditation depending on inspections. Temperature and humidity is paramount to specialists' standards, with vet data loggers offering the best approach for the below RCVS requirements.
At Withnell Sensors we offer the ideal vet monitoring automated solutions for your veterinary requirements. The veterinary data loggers available at Withnell Sensors will make compliance to the medical care standards a breeze.
Proper storage
Module 10.1.6 of the practice standards manual states that there 'must be proper monitoring and recording of maximum and minimum temperatures in the refrigerator and dispensary.’ With a vet data logger, you can ensure that there is a wireless, automated device offering real-time data readings of the temperatures inside your dispensary.
Room monitoring
The RVCS also calls for proper temperature conditions for surgical and recovery areas since this is crucial in providing a safe, stable and reliable environment for animal patients. A vet data logger can come in a wireless device form which provides ultimate accessibility and remote monitoring features.
In-Transit reliability
Veterinary monitoring equipment can also help protect medicines and samples during transit. It is possible to build up a wireless network that covers your veterinary temperature monitoring process end-to-end including your delivery network ideal for agricultural and large animal vet practices.
’Consideration should be given to the use of alarms to indicate when temperatures stray out of set parameters.'
’Checks are required to be made daily and the inspector will ask to see written records, produced on a weekly basis, showing the results for the week.’
’Ideally temperature sensitive medicines should only be taken out on vehicles on a “by use” basis, but, whether being stored or transported, measures should be taken to ensure that products remain within the temperature range specified on their SPC.’
Read more about the RCVS practice standards scheme here.
Important features of Vet Data Loggers
Depending on the data logger you choose from our range available, real-time alerts can be delivered and will immediately inform you via text or email if temperature conditions breach your defined range- conforming to regulations and protecting the quality of your medicines. Alarm mechanisms are configurable and vital, not only from a safety and conformance perspective but can also save you from wasting thousands of pounds worth of medicines by allowing you to act quickly should there be a failure with your refrigerator.
Reports can be generated for you at the touch of a button with select veterinary monitoring equipment, eliminating any need for manual measurements. These records can be kept securely in the cloud for a number of years, providing hassle-free compliance. Records can also be downloaded and stored electronically removing any need for paper-based systems.
Veterinary medicine wholesale dealer's authorisation (WDA) storage and transport conditions
For wholesalers, you must also conform to standards set by the WDA regarding temperature monitoring. 'You must make sure that proper storage conditions are always maintained, including during transportation, for all medicines including those that: need to be stored at low temperatures (known as cold chain products) and those that should be stored below 25º or 30º C (known as temperate chain products).
You should record temperatures at low and high levels – this includes in contained storage areas within warehouses, e.g. flammable stores. You need to continuously record the temperature if you are storing medicines either in small refrigerators or in warehouses. If you are storing medicines in large warehouses you should use temperature mapping (noting the changes in temperature in a single space caused by things like doors opening). The system is also the perfect tool for temperature mapping- read more here.
