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Colin Robson, one of Harlow’s designers, has been at it again in the world of triathlon and put in a seriously impressive performance at the weekend in the Beaver Open Water Middle Distance Triathlon held in Leicestershire.

Colin finished top of his age category and fifth overall in a race consisting of over 300 competitors. A remarkable achievement, especially as Colin has been struggling with a niggling knee injury for several months. The race consisted of a 1900m swim, followed by a 74km cycle and finished off with a 13.1mile run. Unbelievably this wasn’t tough enough for Colin as he will be taking on his second Ironman challenge this summer.

We would like to congratulate Colin on this great achievement!

WARNING
MISREADING OF HEAD CIRCUMFERENCE SCALE ON UK-WHO NEONATAL AND INFANT CLOSE MONITORING (NICM) CHART IN BABIES WITH VERY LARGE HEADS

A clinical error associated with plotting head circumference on the UK-WHO NICM chart has been reported. In a child whose head circumference already exceeded the 99.6th centile at term, the left hand length scale was consistently misread as the head circumference scale, leading to avoidable delay in recognition of intra cranial expansion. It is important for staff to be aware of this possible confusion.
On the 2-weeks to 6-months chart, in order to accommodate both head and length curves, the head circumference scale extends to 39cm on the left axis and 47cm on the right, with both axes increasing in 1cm intervals. The head circumference scale then merges with the length scale, in a different colour, starting at 42cm on the left axis and 58cm on the right, and increasing in 2cm intervals (see figure below). If that distinction is not recognized and the left length scale is used erroneously to plot head circumferences exceeding 39cm, the resulting centiles will be too low and may mask intracranial expansion (see figure below).
It is thus important that staff plotting head circumference in children under 3 months distinguish between the length and head circumference scales on the left axis, and ensure that head circumferences exceeding 39cm are always plotted using the right axis.
The RCPCH are developing a new edition of the chart in which the labeling will be modified to avoid confusion in future. However, staff using existing stock need to be aware of the potential for confusion.

Click on the image below for a larger and more clear view.

Come and check out the Harlow stand at the RCPCH Annual Conference next week on Wednesday April 9th at the ICC in Birmingham. Our sales team will be eager to help answer any questions.  Look out for our banners…

Harlow Printing Limited is pleased to announce that we have now acquired Anoto Accreditation. 

With the Anoto digital pen and paper technology added to your business/hospital forms, you’ll be able to transmit your data in seconds, not hours or days. The Anoto solution eliminates the timely data entry and scanning hours to deliver you an instant reporting line. This leads to a reduction in administration time and costs and coupled with increased reporting efficiency can bring an increase in productive man hours, without changing the basic way you work.

The Pattern is a matrix of dots that is completely unique with no single area ever repeated; it is simply printed over the top of your standing form artwork. With sophisticated hand writing recognition and programmable data fields your form, in conjunction with the pen, will capture all of your important data and convert it to raw data in a format that will upload into your computer data system.

The Pen looks and operates like an ordinary pen. However, this pen records and stores the information as it is written. Equipped with an infra-red camera the pen reads the digital pattern as a series of map co-ordinates by taking up to a hundred images of pen strokes per second and converts them into digital data. Paired with a smart phone or USB docking station, your form data can be sent to your company’s server using Wi-Fi or 3G.

Why not give us a call on 0191 4554286 to discuss any requirement you have or any areas where you think this new technology will work. Our sales team are happy to call and discuss with you how the system works and to get the ball rolling with potential costs and savings.

For more general information on digital pen technology check out the Anoto website at www.anoto.com