This is one of those behind-the-scenes things you never think about as a patient. Different pressures, flow rates, and safety margins, all hidden above the ceiling doing their thing. Mildly fascinating engineering.
SudhaTheHill on
What’s the difference between medical breathing air and medical oxygen
Terpsherpa on
Medical Suction would make a decent band name.
Cryzgnik on
Gas and its substates of matter: suction and wires
an_older_meme on
Brazed lines. Nice.
originaljbw on
Things like this are why hospital buildings have a surprisingly short lifespan.
an_older_meme on
Huffing welding oxygen will help with a hangover. My gas supplier said their welding oxygen and their medical oxygen are the same.
finallytisdone on
They pipe nitrous around a hospital? That’s wiiiild. In grad school nitrous tanks always had to be locked and the key hidden because it is such a desirable way to kill yourself. It’s way more dangerous than the rest of those gases, so I would have expected tanks at point of use.
jonlawrence93 on
Interesting to me is the flow directions.
In the suction one, is that the direction to air is being pulled or the direction the air is being pulled from? If that makes sense.
An engineer is very proud of themselves for their successful yet unseen work.
FashionableGarlic on
We sell these at my work, its a special type of copper pipe called ACR. Its super duper clean with very very few flaws like burrs and dents and sold capped on each end filled with nitrogen to prevent any chemical reactions or growth. Very expensive stuff.
Designed to deliver pure medical grade chemicals/gasses safely and reliably. Pretty neat to see them installed.
Yangervis on
Never thought about surgical tools running on air but it makes sense
BobbyP27 on
Surely suction and medical breathing air are both the same (just at different pressures)?
Exstrangerboy on
Medical carbon dioxide… Why???
voretaq7 on
What, and I cannot stress this enough, ***THE FUCK*** did they do to the surgical tool air and CO2 pipes – and quite possibly the NOx pipe too?
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This is one of those behind-the-scenes things you never think about as a patient. Different pressures, flow rates, and safety margins, all hidden above the ceiling doing their thing. Mildly fascinating engineering.
What’s the difference between medical breathing air and medical oxygen
Medical Suction would make a decent band name.
Gas and its substates of matter: suction and wires
Brazed lines. Nice.
Things like this are why hospital buildings have a surprisingly short lifespan.
Huffing welding oxygen will help with a hangover. My gas supplier said their welding oxygen and their medical oxygen are the same.
They pipe nitrous around a hospital? That’s wiiiild. In grad school nitrous tanks always had to be locked and the key hidden because it is such a desirable way to kill yourself. It’s way more dangerous than the rest of those gases, so I would have expected tanks at point of use.
Interesting to me is the flow directions.
In the suction one, is that the direction to air is being pulled or the direction the air is being pulled from? If that makes sense.
I just assumed they used tanks in each room
reminds me of this XKCD [xkcd: Pipelines](https://xkcd.com/1649/)
An engineer is very proud of themselves for their successful yet unseen work.
We sell these at my work, its a special type of copper pipe called ACR. Its super duper clean with very very few flaws like burrs and dents and sold capped on each end filled with nitrogen to prevent any chemical reactions or growth. Very expensive stuff.
Designed to deliver pure medical grade chemicals/gasses safely and reliably. Pretty neat to see them installed.
Never thought about surgical tools running on air but it makes sense
Surely suction and medical breathing air are both the same (just at different pressures)?
Medical carbon dioxide… Why???
What, and I cannot stress this enough, ***THE FUCK*** did they do to the surgical tool air and CO2 pipes – and quite possibly the NOx pipe too?
Holy Brazing, Batman!
Gimme some of that nitrous