Hi I agree that specifying a podiatry treatment room as body protected is entirely appropriate. It is an example of the room being used for patient procedures, at times involving items of medical electrical equipment, podiatrists do use drills etc at times. I think that this leaves no scope for any argument to be placed AGAINST is being body protected. Robert's other point is a good one also in terms of future proofing. As soon as a space is designated as a patient treatment area of any type (be it for podiatry or any other reason) history dictates that its use will expand or diversify soon enough. Too often we see examples of rooms that started as an office......morphed into a "consulting room" and then soon enough are being used for minor procedures. For the small expense of making an area body protected it is always interesting to hear the arguments put up for not doing it. I had one put to me recently that an area that would clearly be used for body type procedures did not need to be body protected as it was only going to be used for a study that involved volunteers and "they are, strictly speaking, not patients". Adrian
________________________________ From: Barnett, Robert [[email protected]] Sent: Thursday, 13 December 2012 3:35 PM To: Porter, John R (DHHS); [email protected] Subject: RE: [bmelist] Podiatry Rooms Body-protected Sorry... Robert Barnett Chief Biomedical Engineer Biomedical Engineering Alfred Health 55 Commercial Road PO Box 315 Prahran Victoria 3181 Australia Alfred Health incorporates The Alfred, Caulfield Hospital and Sandringham Hospital www.alfredhealth.org.au<http://www.alfredhealth.org.au/> ________________________________ From: Barnett, Robert Sent: Thursday, 13 December 2012 16:04 To: 'Porter, John R (DHHS)'; '[email protected]' Subject: RE: [bmelist] Podiatry Rooms Body-protected John, You need to future proof them against being converted to more invasive procedure rooms down the track. Therefore I say do it, for three reasons: 1. "Treatment room" argument, as you have pointed out. 2. Future proofing, as above. 3. Opportunity sounds like it is there now, may not be there later. Regards, Robert ________________________________ From: Porter, John R (DHHS) [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Thursday, 13 December 2012 15:57 To: [email protected] Subject: [bmelist] Podiatry Rooms Body-protected Sorry for pestering people just want a yes or no Podiatry rooms do they need to be Body-protected we have just had a new area built that contains Podiatry Rooms they weren’t wired for Body-protected the Biomedical manager wants me to get them upgraded however AS/NZS 2500 would indicate that they possibly don’t fit into this category where as AS/NZS 3003:2011 clearly indicates Treatment rooms and I would say that these are Treatment Rooms. Thoughts? Regards, John John Porter Team Leader Electrical/Mechanical Building & Engineering Launceston General Hospital Mob: 0419146979 Ph: 03 6348 7433 Fx: 03 6348 7430 Email: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> ________________________________ CONFIDENTIALITY NOTICE AND DISCLAIMER The information in this transmission may be confidential and/or protected by legal professional privilege, and is intended only for the person or persons to whom it is addressed. If you are not such a person, you are warned that any disclosure, copying or dissemination of the information is unauthorised. If you have received the transmission in error, please immediately contact this office by telephone, fax or email, to inform us of the error and to enable arrangements to be made for the destruction of the transmission, or its return at our cost. No liability is accepted for any unauthorised use of the information contained in this transmission. -- This email was Anti Virus checked by KeyTrust UnityASV
