2018 FGI

  • Saturday, April 25, 2020 12:50 PM
    Message # 8927663
    Al Moon (Administrator)

    Can someone confirm that within the 2018 or 2019 FGI, the minimum guidelines for installed medical gas and vacuum system is still listed.


    If so, does it ready read that a CATH LAB should have IA installed? 

  • Monday, April 27, 2020 6:33 AM
    Reply # 8930452 on 8927663

    Al;

    Be careful - Jonathan Willard was kind enough to correct me on this one - there is an errata to the original book and the number of places it is required was reduced. 

    The net is that, yes, it says that decontamination should have instrument air.  BUT there is another proviso - remember that there is NFPA Instrument Air and ISA Instrument Air and they are VERY different.   If a facility has or wants NFPA Instrument Air, bully for them and they should certainly use it for this purpose.  But if they do not have NFPA Instrument Air the FGI requirement is not mandating it be installed just for decontamination.  In that case they can go for ISA Instrument Air which is much less complicated.

  • Monday, April 27, 2020 7:54 AM
    Reply # 8930606 on 8927663
    Al Moon (Administrator)

    THANKS For the update but that's not my question.


    ? Does the newest FGI list IA as a item / needed within a CATH LAB ?

  • Tuesday, April 28, 2020 7:42 AM
    Reply # 8932839 on 8927663
  • Tuesday, April 28, 2020 3:38 PM
    Reply # 8933989 on 8927663
    Al Moon (Administrator)

    COOL

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