Oxygen and suction in hospital wards: how many outlets?
Current DHSS guidance assumes a close link between patient dependency and the number of oxygen and suction outlets required. Research now puts a question mark against this assumption, reports Dr Carole Rawlinson, of the Medical Architecture Research Unit, Polytechnic of North London.
D006761:Hospitals; D008131:London; D010100:Oxygen / Q000600:supply & distribution*; D013396:Suction / Q000295:instrumentation*