Note: This is the seventh post for my Top 10 List of the medical equipment innovations with the greatest impact on facility design. My criteria was simple: Did the innovation create a significant change in the cost (Increase or Decrease) to design and construct the facility? The greater the overall impact, the higher the item [...]

Ultrasound is a diagnostic tool that has evolved greatly in the past 5 years. The systems have branched into 2 primary types: Abdominal and Vascular. The same units can accomplish either procedure, however different software and probes are used. The most common procedure is the fetal ultrasound, used to visualize the fetus of a pregnant [...]

Understanding the piped medical gas delivery system in your facility is a great opportunity to familiarize yourself with all of the various components that create these “systems”. Depending upon your frame of reference, the “start” and “end” of these systems will vary from the clinician’s perspective and a contractors point of view. To [...]