Medical gas and vacuum systems installation handbook

Installers, designers, inspectors, and verifiers all need this targeted tool for specialized knowledge about gas, air compressor, and vacuum systems Category 1 through 3. The Handbook combines Chapters 1—5 from the edition of NFPA Health Care Facilities Code, plus new Chapter 15 dedicated to gas and vacuum systems for dental applications, expert commentary, application guidance, test procedures for installation tests and verification tests for medical gas systems. Benefit from full-color visuals, Supplements, and more.

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Search book title Enter keywords for book title search. See Errata for Section:. Reset Filters. Single User Subscription. Site License Subscription. All Books. All Packages. In the early of s, healthcare providers recognised the hazards of using heavy high pressure cylinders of medical gases.

Instead, medical gases and vacuum systems are provided by medical gases pipeline system MGPS. It is safe, permanent and cost-effective mean of provision. In general, medical gases are specific gases that are separated from the air individually for various medical applications. Commonly used medical gases in hospitals are. Oxygen is the most important gas on the earth; it formed about 21 per cent of the natural air. In application, it is used as a medical gas to sustain life.

Moreover, it is used to drive anesthesia machines and ventilators in addition to other methods for manual ventilation. Three sources are used for oxygen supply; vacuum-insulated evaporator VIE or bulk tank, cylinders, and oxygen concentrator PSA system. Further, oxygen is coded in white color. Nitrous oxide is a medical gas administrated via anesthesia machine. It is mixed with oxygen and various anesthetic agents.

Therefore, operating rooms are sole location of nitrous oxide. Usually a manifold supply system is the source of nitrous oxide gas. Cylinders are coded with blue color as well as the pipelines. In general, medical air 4 is used for respiratory applications. The source of supply can be a medical gas manifold system or a medical compressor system. The color code is black color. Medical air 7 is known as surgical air because it is used mainly to derive some surgical equipment such as tourniquet and bone saw.

The supply source is similar to medical air 4. Carbone dioxide is a medical gas used for insufflations purpose in open heart surgery and laparoscopy procedures.

Usually portable cylinders are the source of CO2 which are coded with grey color. Nitrogen for surgical power tools is likely to be used only on the sites where it is available for the production of synthetic air.

Medical vacuum is provided by means of a vacuum central plant. The vacuum system should always be used in conjunction with vacuum control units that include vacuum jars.

In fact, it is not a gas, it is a negative pressure used for suctioning patients and for anesthetic gas scavenging system. Typically, vacuum is delivered at pressure of mmHg 53 KPa below atmospheric pressure. Vacuum pipes are known with its yellow color.

Each medical gas must be supplied from a separate system. It is essential that all parts of each system are gas specific to ensure that there is no possibility of cross-connection between systems. Indeed, a common configuration is designed to each system as shown in Fig. March Gas and Vacuum Systems, Edition. April Gas and Vacuum Systems.

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