Medical gas pipeline systems are designed to deliver medical gases with stable pressure as well as compressed air and vacuum to operation rooms, intensive medical care rooms, waking-up rooms, patients' rooms, diagnostic and minor operations rooms.
The work with exchanging cylinders that is nor disturbed, the economy in the use of space, the lack of transmitting infections through dirty cylinders as well as relieving the auxiliary personnel are just some of many advantages which are gained after the use of the installation supplying medical gases. many advantages what one gains after using of the installation of supplying with medical gases.
Construction:
The construction of medical gas pipeline system is specific for every building. However, there are certain elements that are in common in all the installations. The initial element of every installation is the power resource with the equipment. Pipelines spread in the whole building, that create the internal net of medical gases, make up the next element. In some hospital buildings external containers with liquid medical gases are used and then, apart from the internal net, there also exists an external net of medical gases. On the outlets of the main power supplying pipeline there are assembled the controlling-communicating units for medical gases, which enable the cut-off of the gases' in-flow at the moment of an emergency situation. After the controlling-communicating units there are final units of the installation and they are the medical gas outlet points that stay individual or are built in various types of medical products. In the case when nitrous oxide stays in the installation, another installation throwing away the after-anaesthetic gases is installed in the rooms where this gas is delivered. In the buildings where AIR-MOTOR power supplying sockets are used, in order to throw away the excess of the compressed air, an additional pipeline must be installed.
Schematic illustration of the pipeline system for medical gasses
The following elements might be indicated in the pipeline system for medical gasses:
Power resources, among which one can list:
- Bottle decompressors of the air, nitrous oxide and carbon dioxide
- External containers with the liquid oxygen
- Switchboards of the compressed air
- Central vacuums
Pipelines with medical gases
The pipelines are made of copper pipes, three-way adapters, joints and elbows connected with the use of hard solder Ls-45. The pipelines are made in accordance with the EN ISO 7396-1:2007 norm “Medical gas pipeline systems - Part 1: Pipeline systems for compressed medical gases and vacuum”. In harmony with the EN ISO 7396-1:2007 norm we are taking copper pipes to medical gasses norms fulfilling the requirements EN 13348:2004 “Copper and copper alloys. Seamless, round copper tubes for medical gases or vacuum”
The controlling-communicating units for medical gases
The units (boxes) are installed in every operating room, in intensive medical care rooms, in resuscitation rooms and at individual wards (floors). They enable closing / opening the flow of medical gases, their constant control as well as connecting an emergency power supply. In the case of appearing the central power supply breakdown, the power may be supplied through the box to the area serviced by this box.
Medical gas outlet points
All the assembled medical outlet points meet the requirements of the European norms and posses the CE sign. Such points may exist individually mounted on the wall or in final units, such as:
- Medical gas consumption boards TPG
- Power supplying systems for intensive care SZIN
- Medical supply unit (Over-bed sets)
- Anaesthetic and surgical columns
Signalling the breakdown of medical gases, there are two kinds distinguished:
- Signalling the breakdown of power resources informs about exceeding the established limits of a working pressure produced by power resources as well as about emergency states in electrical energy supplying.
- Signalling the breakdown in medical gases installation informs about exceeding the established limits of a working pressure, which is in medical gases pipelines.
The medical gas pipeline systems meets the requirements of the Directive 93/42/EEC concerning medical devices, also are executed and certificate according to EN ISO 7396-1. “Medical gas pipeline systems - Part 1: Pipeline systems for compressed medical gases and vacuum”. Pipeline systems executed by us are meant with CE sign with number 1011.
