CRITERIO NORMA NFPA 99 PARA GASES MEDICINALES40

1. SISTEMA DE OXÍGENO

Tabla A.1 Factores de simultaneidad y flujos para el oxígeno.

Simultaneous -
Location Volume (Lpm)
use factor
Firts operating room (far end of a 50 per operating room a
section of piping and all individual 100 (two outlets per operating
branches to operating rooms) room)
30 per operating room a
Firts operating room (on a section of
100 (two outlets per operating
piping)
room)
20 per operating room a
Each additional operating room (on a
100 (two outlets per operating
section of piping)
room)
Emergency rooms b 100 Same as operating room
Trauma rooms 100 Same as operating room
Delivery rooms 100 Same as operating room
Cystoscopy and special procedures
100 Same as operating room
rooms
Recovery rooms (one outlet per bed): 20 per outlet
One to eight outlets 100
Plus nine to twelve outlets 60
Plus thirteen to sixteen outlets 50
Plus additional outlets 45
ICU rooms (two outlets per bed) 100 20 per outlet c
CCU rooms (two outlets per bed) 100 20 per outlet c
Other spaces such as: 20 per outlet c
Patient rooms (Medical and surgical)
(bedside outlets)
Sometimes one outlet per bed
Sometimes one outlet per two beds
Labor rooms
Sometimes one outlet per bed
Sometimes one outlet per two beds
Nurseries (check program for number
of outlets)
Special care nursery (one outlet per
incubator)
Examination and treatmet rooms

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Operating room bed holding areas
Surgical preparation rooms
Blood donor rooms
Anesthesia work rooms
Plaster (fracture) rooms
Dental surgery
Cardiac and heart catheterization
rooms
Deep therapy rooms
Inhalation therapy rooms
Electroencephalogram (EEG) rooms
Electrocardiogram (ECG) rooms
Electromyogram (EMG) rooms
Fluoroscopy rooms
High-level radioisotope rooms
Low-level radiation rooms
X-ray rooms
Endoscopy room

a
Where oxygen is used to power fluidically controlled anesthesia ventilators,
increase Lpm volume by 40 percent.
b
All outlets in the emergency department (area) should have 100 percent
simultaneous - use factors.
c
Where oxygen is used to power fluidically controlled ventilators, volume should be
40Lpm.
d
Simultaneous - use factors for other spaces: The firts outlet on the end section of
piping 20 Lpm, 100 percent use factor. For additional outlets on the section of piping
10 Lpm with the following use factors:

Tabla A.2 Factores de simultaneidad y flujos para el oxígeno según número de salidas.

Outlets Percent Lpm

1-3 100
4 - 12 75 Mín. 45
13 - 20 50 Mín. 115
21 - 40 33 Mín. 125
40 and over 25 Mín. 155