Protection of medical personnel from the damaging factors, such as radiation exposure, biological agents, and physical parameters, often carried out by mechanical methods - by creating an X-ray impermeable walls, sealed gateways etc.
Patient unit - is a diagnostic X-ray room or infectious insulator. These patient units are installed for the safety of personnel. Communication with personnel typically occurs by intercom. Basic requirements for premises: leakproofness against radiation exposure, soundproofness, environmental friendliness, resistance to the disinfectant, adequate ventilation.
Patient unit is initially designed to provide control during X-ray examinations. The room is equipped with a thick glass or cameras (in accordance with SanPiN 2.6.1.1192-03 p.3.21 is allowed to use television and other video systems to monitor the patient).
The structure of the patient unit may include: a video camera with a high resolution and a built-in IR LED, speaker, microphone, call button. All functions of the patient unit is constantly available and activated by pressing a single button, which is useful in emergency situations. The housing of the control unit is made of abrasion resistant plastic, metal options happen, but the metal more often is used in the door and window locks design.
Gateway - a hermetically sealed automated system to move the patient and the equipment between two rooms with different levels of purity. Gateway eliminates the entry of unauthorized personnel and foreign objects in the disinfected area. WestMedGroup gateways provide several types of air flow into the patient unit: an active mode in which air is supplied through the HEPA filter, semi-active and passive, in which the HVAC equipment is not available.
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