Because of people like the Delta Development team, blood product storage equipment has come a long way. The APRU your team developed is a stellar piece of equipment. Our QA team performed a validation on it, and we were all so impressed. It maintains temperature better than many of our in-house blood bank refrigerators. It even maintained temperature for 12+ hours after we let the battery die! Other features we liked was that it was simple to use, the battery life is really long, and it has integrated temperature monitoring and alarming so that a separate temperature monitoring device is not needed. Use of the APRU in a pre-hospital setting is the perfect solution for ease of use on the EMS side and assurance of product safety for everyone. Kudos to all of you involved in developing this revolutionary piece of equipment.
Austin-Travis County EMS, Texas
The product you guys have developed, and continue to refine as we learn and partner with public blood banks answers the call. I believe in prehospital whole blood, I have experienced its benefit first hand. The APRU is going to be the gold standard in storage and deployment models for pre hospital programs, I have no doubt.
Multnomah County EMS, Oregon
I wanted to first thank you for allowing MCEMS the opportunity to review and “share” your APRU and Delta Ice cooler. We had some great meetings with our Blood Bank and local fire departments. Hands down, everyone saw the quality and durability of both pieces of equipment. Our fire agencies saw more value in the APRU and felt it would fit into their “workflow culture”. Moving forward, we will be working on allocating the funds to purchase the necessary equipment for the Whole Blood program in Multnomah County.
The APRU-6L is a listed medical device with the U.S. Food & Drug Administration.
MET SAFETY CERTIFICATION LISTING
The APRU-6L complies with the requirements of the Standard(s) for Electrical Equipment for Measurement, Control & Laboratory Use; Part 1 General Requirements (UL-61010-1) and are identified with the MET Listed Mark.