What are FGI Guidelines?

What are FGI Guidelines?

The Facility Guidelines Institute is the authoritative source for guidance on health and residential care facility planning, design, and construction in the United States.

What is FGI healthcare?

The Facility Guidelines Institute (FGI) is a nonprofit organization that works to develop guidelines for designing and building hospitals and other health care facilities.

What is a Class 2 imaging room?

Class 2 imaging room: diagnostic and therapeutic procedures such as coronary, neurological, or peripheral angiography, including electrophysiology, cardiac catheterization and interven- tional angiography and similar procedures.

What are the different types of operating rooms?

There are several types of operating rooms depending on the type of surgery being performed. There are General, Orthopedic, Neuro, Spine, Urology, and Cardiac/Thoracic. The reason for having different types of operating rooms is that different procedures require different equipment and personnel.

What is a Level 3 operating room?

Level 3. • Moderate to significantly invasive procedure. • Blood loss potential 500-1,500 cc. • Moderate risk to patient independent of anesthesia.

How many types of OT tables are there?

There are three major categories of operating tables: general surgical tables, orthopedic tables, and radiolucent imaging tables. General surgical tables are used in a wide variety of surgical procedures like cardiovascular, pediatric, gynecology, gall bladder, and plastic surgery.

What ISO Class is an operating room?

For operating rooms, that is Category 4 which is 10,000 particle/per cubic meter of air of 0.1 microns or larger (Table ISO 14644-1). (Note: the ISO 14644 Standard has replaced Federal Standard 209E).

What is a surgical table called?

Sometimes known as a surgical table or operation table, operating tables are typically used within an operating room or surgical suite of a hospital, ambulatory surgery center, or other healthcare facilities where surgeries are performed. Operating tables may be either stationary or mobile to move room to room.

What are the standards for a surgery room?

In its 2014 Operating Room Requirements Guidelines, the Facility Guidelines Institute recommends that the minimum inpatient operating room size be no less than 400 square feet. Operating spaces designed for specialized procedures generally require more staff, and are recommended to be at least 600 square feet.

What is a Level 4 operating room?

Level 4. • Highly invasive procedure. • Blood loss greater than 1,500 cc. • Major risk to patient independent of anesthesia. Includes: Major orthopedic-spinal reconstruction, major reconstruction of the.

What is OT light?

Operation theatre light is a medical device intended to assist medical personnel during a surgical procedure by illuminating a local area or cavity of the patient. A combination of several surgical lights is often referred to as a “surgical light system”.