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KERN Medical Scales 2014

KERN Medical Scales 2014

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Overview: The document is a catalog from KERN & SOHN GmbH, detailing their range of medical scales and related products for clinics, doctors' surgeries, care facilities, and veterinary practices. It emphasizes the company's commitment to quality, reliability, and prompt service.

Company Information: KERN & SOHN GmbH is a German company with a long history in precision weighing technology, offering products like balances, test weights, and calibration services. They provide a 24-hour delivery service and a 3-year warranty on balances over €400.

Quality and Standards: The company adheres to various quality management systems and standards, including DIN EN ISO 9001:2008 and DIN EN ISO 13485, ensuring their products meet medical device regulations.

Product Range: The catalog includes a variety of medical scales such as height rods, baby scales, personal scales, obesity scales, bathroom scales, body fat scales, wheelchair platform scales, handrail scales, chair scales, organ scales, dynamometers, pharmacy balances, and veterinary scales. Each product is described with features, specifications, and pricing.

Key Features: Many products are approved as medical devices under 93/42/EEC, with features like mechanical and electronic measurement, portability, and ease of use. Specific models include the KERN MSB 80, MSC 100, and MSF 200 height rods, each designed for different measurement needs.

Service and Support: KERN offers after-sales services, including repair and calibration, with a focus on maintaining high standards of customer service. They provide direct dispatch to customers and offer marketing support to retailers.

Historical Context: The document highlights KERN's history, from its founding in 1844 to its current status as a leader in weighing technology, emphasizing its tradition of innovation and quality.

Additional Information: The catalog includes legal notices, sales conditions, and details about the company's DKD calibration service, ensuring compliance with international standards.

Baby Scales: The document provides detailed specifications and features of various medical scales manufactured by KERN, including baby scales and personal scales. Each model is designed for professional use in medical diagnostics and is approved as a medical device with EC type approval class III.

KERN MBB: Features include a large, ergonomic tray, removable tray for infants, robust ABS plastic construction, vibration-free weighing, and data hold function. It is battery or mains-powered with optional rechargeable battery operation.
KERN MBC: Known for its large weighing pan and special function for neonatology centers. It includes a difference function for weight gain calculation, robust construction, and data hold function. It is mains-powered with optional rechargeable battery operation.
KERN MBE: An affordable option with an ergonomic tray, simple one-key operation, and automatic data hold function. It is battery-powered with a long operating time.

Personal Scales:

KERN MPE: Includes a BMI function, mother and child function, and a practical second display. It features a large platform, vibration-free weighing, and is mains-powered with optional battery operation.
KERN MPS: Compact and cost-effective, suitable for treatment rooms. It features an ergonomic display device, sturdy weighing plate, and BMI function. It is battery or mains-powered with optional rechargeable battery operation.
KERN MPB: Features a sturdy steel weighing plate, simple operation, and BMI function. It is battery or mains-powered.
KERN MPC: A bestseller for professional environments, featuring robust design, ergonomic optimization, and easy cleaning. It is mains-powered with optional battery operation.

Technical Specifications: Each model includes specific dimensions, weight capacities, and display features. Accessories such as carrying cases, height rods, and protective covers are available for most models.

Regulatory Compliance: All scales are approved as medical devices according to 93/42/EEC. Within the EU, official verification is mandatory for scales used as medical devices.

Specifications and Features:

Personal Floor Scales: These scales are approved as medical devices and feature a large platform with a non-slip surface, high-resolution readout, BMI function, and vibration-free weighing. They are designed for easy use in professional environments like doctor’s surgeries and hospitals.
Obesity Scales: Designed for weighing overweight patients, these scales have a wide weighing range and are suitable for hospitals and clinics. They include features like a large platform, vibration-free weighing, and a BMI function.
Bathroom and Body Fat Scales: These scales are designed for home care with features like a flat design, easy operation, and memory for multiple users. The body fat scale also measures body composition metrics such as body fat, water, and muscle mass.
Wheelchair Platform Scales: These scales are suitable for weighing patients in wheelchairs, featuring a low-profile platform, memory function for tare weights, and easy transportability.
Handrail Scales: Designed for secure weighing with a handrail for support, these scales are ideal for care homes and geriatric centers.

Technical Data: Each scale type includes specific technical data such as dimensions, display type, power options, and net weight. Accessories like rechargeable battery packs, stands, and protective covers are available for most models.

Regulatory Compliance: All scales intended for medical use require official verification within the EU, and the document specifies the need for verification and calibration certificates.

Platform Scales:

Designed for fragile and weak patients, offering a sturdy support structure and precise weight determination.
Features include a large non-slip platform, low height for easy access, vibration-free weighing, and a BMI function.
Technical specifications include an LCD display, dimensions, battery and mains power options, and a net weight of approximately 20 kg.
Accessories include a mechanical height rod, interface cable, protective cover, and rechargeable battery pack.

Chair Scales:

Mobile chair scales with four wheels, approved as medical devices with EC type approval class III.
Features include maximum mobility, ergonomic seating, foldable armrests and footrests, and a data hold function.
Technical specifications include an LCD display, dimensions, battery and mains power options, and a net weight of approximately 26 kg.
Accessories include a mains adapter pouch, protective cover, and rechargeable battery pack.

Organ Scales:

Compact scales protected against water splashes, suitable for weighing organs and tissues in pathology or laboratories.
Features include stainless steel construction, high mobility, and IP65 protection against dust and water.
Technical specifications include an LCD display, dimensions, rechargeable battery pack, and a net weight of approximately 3.2 kg.
Accessories include a tare pan for weighing organs and tissues.

Hand Grip Dynamometers:

Used in rehabilitation centers to determine manual clamping force with four measuring methods.
Features include real-time mode, peak/max mode, average mode, and counting mode.
Technical specifications include an LCD display, battery operation, and a net weight of approximately 0.3 kg.
Special versions available for children and bodybuilders, with exchangeable springs for different patient groups.

Digital Dynamometers:

Used for determining muscle function and force in medical diagnostics, orthopedics, physiotherapy, and sports.
Features include ergonomic design, soft foam rubber surface, and compatibility with various sensors and handles.
Accessories include concave force sensors, flat square-shaped sensors, round sensors, and stainless steel handles.

Regulatory Compliance:

Within the EU, official verification is mandatory for scales intended for use as medical devices.
Verification requires the location of use and the postcode for compliance.

Pharmacy Balances:

KERN offers highly accurate precision balances suitable for laboratories, hospitals, and pharmacies. Models include KERN ABJ, EG, and KBJ, each verified according to specific classes for precision.
Features include net-total weighing, tolerance range weighing, and GLP/ISO record-keeping capabilities with an optional printer.
Technical specifications vary by model, with different weighing ranges, readout precision, and dimensions.

Veterinary Scales:

KERN provides a range of veterinary scales for weighing pets and livestock, designed for ease of use and mobility.
Animal scales feature a special weighing program to stabilize readings even if the animal moves, and a HOLD function to retain the weight display.
Models include small pet scales, compact veterinary scales, and robust platform scales for larger animals, with options for wireless communication and easy transport.

Hanging Scales:

Designed for mobile weighing of heavy pets and animal feed, these scales include features like data hold and peak load display.
Available in reinforced versions for heavy loads, with stainless steel hooks and snap links.

General Information:

KERN scales are designed to meet the specific needs of various sectors, including medical and veterinary applications, ensuring resilience, hygiene, and reliability.
All scales comply with relevant European directives and standards for medical and commercial use.

Specifications and Verification: Medical devices such as personal scales, baby scales, bed scales, and scales in dialysis units require mandatory verification. These devices, with a maximum resolution of 3000 digits, fall under Verification Class III. Re-verification deadlines are location-dependent and specified in the Verification Ordinance. Operators must ensure verification stamps remain intact and deadlines are met. KERN & SOHN GmbH disclaims responsibility for these obligations.

Non-Verified Scales: Scales not intended as medical devices lack approval under Directive 93/42/EEC and are unsuitable for medical use. They are for patient self-checks and do not require verification.

Professional Care: Verification is not mandatory for scales used in pathology, pharmacies, by midwives, or during blood collection for blood products preparation.

Home Care: Non-verified scales are for self-monitoring health status and not for medical applications. They help track weight trends, prompting medical consultation if needed. Verified scales are used for diagnosis.

Other Information: Balances with EC Type-Approval distributed without verification cannot be verified later and are not recognized as medical products under norm 93/42/EEC. Electronic balances require re-verification and re-calibration if relocated due to gravitational force considerations.

Legal Provisions: Legal provisions concerning medical products are applicable, ensuring compliance with relevant standards and regulations.

Catalog excerpts

Printed in Germany by KERN & SOHN GmbH z-cm-gb-kp-201401 Medical products advisers Switchboard Sales Manager Ulrich Ulmer Tel. + 49 - [0] 74 33 - 99 33 - 160 Fax + 49 - [0] 74 33 - 99 33 - 29160 [email protected] Marketing Manager Thomas Fimpel Tel. + 49 - [0] 74 33 - 99 33 - 130 Fax + 49 - [0] 74 33 - 99 33 - 29130 [email protected] for clinics, doctors‘ surgeries, care facilities and vets fast competent • DKD accreditation [DIN EN ISO/IEC 17025] • Sales & service hotline from 8:00 am to 6:00 pm • One-stop shopping: from height rod through to chair scale – everything from one supplier • Initial verification by the manufacturer [2009/23/EC] • years warranty for 3 balances over € 400,– UK, IE Marietta Diener Tel. + 49 - [0] 74 33 - 99 33 - 167 Fax + 49 - [0] 74 33 - 99 33 - 29167 Mobile +49-[0]151-46 14 32 36 [email protected] • 24 hours delivery service – order today, on its way tomorrow USA, CAN, TR, Middle East, Africa, Oceania Katharina Queitsch Tel. + 49 - [0] 74 33 - 99 33 - 118 Fax + 49 - [0] 74 33 - 99 33 - 29118 [email protected] • Quick as a flash, find the product you want with the “Balance Quick-Finder” at www.kern-sohn.com MT, Scandinavia Tanja Jetter Tel. + 49 - [0] 74 33 - 99 33 - 168 Fax + 49 - [0] 74 33 - 99 33 - 29168 Mobil +49-[0]151-46 14 32 36 [email protected] South East Asia, Central and South America Corinna Klaass Tel. + 49 - [0] 74 33 - 99 33 - 215 Fax + 49 - [0] 74 33 - 99 33 - 29215 [email protected] • Precision in weighing technology for the last 170 years Order hotline Service hotline E-mail order KERN & SOHN GmbH Balances, Test weights, DKD calibration laboratory Ziegelei 1 72336 Balingen Germany Tel. +49 - [0] 7433 - 9933 - 0 Fax +49 - [0] 7433 - 9933 - 149 www.kern-sohn.com [email protected] RO, CZ, SK, HU, DE (ZIP Code 4, 5) Inna Wandler Tel. + 49 - [0] 74 33 - 99 33 - 218 Fax + 49 - [0] 74 33 - 99 33 - 29218 Mobil +49-[0]151-46142894 [email protected] PT, SLO, HR, BA, RS, MK, BE, LUX Taras Mikitisin Tel. + 49 - [0] 74 33 - 99 33 - 143 Fax + 49 - [0] 74 33 - 99 33 - 137 Mobil +49-[0]171-5590115 [email protected] from Monday to Friday from 8:00 am to 6:00 pm www.kern-sohn.com For product specification sheets, user manuals, useful information, technical glossary, pictures and much more as well as a smart search engine for test weights and balances NL, DE (Zip Code 3, 6) Nadine Nerlich Tel. + 49 - [0] 74 33 - 99 33 - 205 Fax + 49 - [0] 74 33 - 99 33 - 29205 Mobil +49-[0]171-3059946 [email protected] PL, BG, GUS, Baltic States Julia Hering Tel. + 49 - [0] 74 33 - 99 33 - 141 Fax + 49 - [0] 74 33 - 99 33 - 29141 Mobil +49-[0]171-3059661 [email protected] Technical Service Markus Reinke Tel. + 49 - [0] 74 33 - 99 33 - 199 Fax + 49 - [0] 74 33 - 99 33 - 195 [email protected] DKD Calibration Service Tanja Fischer Tel. + 49 - [0] 74 33 - 99 33 - 123 Fax + 49 - [0] 74 33 - 99 33 - 29123 [email protected]

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KERN Pictograms KERN – Your partner for Medical Scales Retailer information Internal adjusting (CAL): Quick setting of the balance’s accuracy with internal adjusting weight (motordriven). Adjusting program (CAL): For quick setting of the balance’s accuracy. External adjusting weight required. Piece counting: Reference quantities selectable. Display can be switched from piece to weight. Data interface RS-232: To connect the balance to a printer, PC or network. GLP/ISO record keeping: of weighing data with date, time and identification-no. Only with printers from KERN. Recipe level A: Separate...

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Medical Scales 2014 KERN Wheelchair platform scale MWS Organ scale FFN-N

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Height rods KERN MSB · MSC · MSF When every centimetre counts – mechanical height rods approved as a medical device for professional use in medical diagnostics Height rods

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Height rods KERN MSB · MSC · MSF APPROVED MEDICAL DEVICE KERN MSB 80 Portable mechanical height rod Features ·· Approved as a medical device according to 93/42/EEC ·· For babies of up to 80 cm in length ·· Measuring range 10 – 80 cm; increments of 1 mm ·· Large guide surfaces make handling easier (aligning, shifting, reading) ·· Measuring scale begins with 0 at right and left, so it can be used in both directions ·· Height rod can be taken apart for compact storage ·· Overall dimensions max. WxDxH 890x330x100 mm ·· Net weight approx. 0.7 kg ·· KERN MSB 80, € 80,– KERN MSC 100 Portable mechanical...

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KERN Medical Scales 2014

KERN Medical Scales 2014

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