In this article, you will learn many awesome things about the medical gas systems and their uses in medical projects.
First, we need to understand what a medical gas system is.
The medical Gas System is an assembly of equipment and piping for the installation and distribution of non-flammable medical gases.
The gases like Oxygen, Compressed Air, Surgical Air, Nitrous Oxide, Medical Vacuum, and Nitrogen…and so on.
We are using the medical gas piping system (MGPS) to provide a safe, convenient, and cost-effective system.
Plus provides medical gases to the clinical and nursing staff at the point of use.
MGPS reduces the problems associated with gas cylinders, such as safety, portability, storage, and noise.
These are examples of medical gas systems that can be found in projects:
1- Medical Air (MA).
2- Medical Vacuum or (MV).
3- Oxygen or ( O2).
4- Surgical Air, or Instrumental Air, or (IA).
5- Nitrous Oxide (N2O).
6- Nitrogen or (N2).
7- Entonox or (N2O/O2).
8- Waste Anesthetic Gas Disposal/ Evacuation or (WAGD/ EVAC).
9- Carbon Dioxide (CO2).
10- Dental Air (DA).
11- Dental Vacuum or (DVAC) or (DV).
12- Laboratory Compressed Air (LCA).
13- Laboratory Vacuum (LVAC).
14- Heliox or (HE/O2).
How do you feed medical gases into a building?
Medical gases are pumped from a source to the final outlet in a building.
These final outlets exist in a BHU (Bed head unit), or in a medical pendant, either inside an operating room or in a patient room,…..so on.
So, we will briefly discuss an example of these medical gas systems: Oxygen.
Oxygen gas can be pumped to the building through one of these systems:
1- By using a big source of liquefied Oxygen, like a Vacuum Insulated Evaporator (VIE).
2- A cylinder contains liquefied Oxygen.
3- A cylinder contains pressurized Oxygen gas.
4- Or, from a generation station for Oxygen, like an Oxygen concentrator or “Pressure Swing Absorber”.
This system is used when the cost of the upper systems is very high, unavailable, or impractical to install.
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