Unlike most of my posts, this one does not offer a position, much less a ‘call to action.’ Instead, I pose a question. You can read it as rhetorical, and allow me to stew in my own juices, or offer your thoughts. The essence of my question is what obligation do I have when I see horrible MRI suite design?
Posts Tagged ‘suite’
Horns Of A Dilemma – Bad MRI Suite Design
Friday, February 4th, 20112010 ‘Guidelines’ Healthcare Building Code To Have MRI Safety Requirements
Tuesday, November 17th, 2009“Tweet, tweet” is usually all I hear from little birdies… but one little bird that flew past my office recently had a surprisingly large vocabulary and told me of new requirements that will be introduced in the forthcoming 2010 update to the ‘Guidelines for Design and Construction of Health Care Facilities’ (commonly referred to as ‘Guidelines’).
For those of you who aren’t familiar with the Guidelines, they are the design requirements that are cited by the Joint Commission and, at last count, 42 of the 50 U.S. State Departments of Health. Technically, they aren’t a building code, but the function in almost the exact same way. For the first time, the Guidelines are going to have specific MRI suite design requirements for patient safety.
2010 Guidelines
Click Here To Read About The Specific MRI Safety Design Requirements…
ASHE MRI Safety Monograph Available…
Monday, January 12th, 2009The new ASHE publication, Designing and Engineering MRI Safety, has now been made available for purchase from the American Society for Healthcare Engineering’s website.
Click for details on how you can get a copy of the new ASHE Monograph…