In the past, imaging design standards focused on the radiology device to be installed rather than the type of care the device would support or the setting in which it would be placed,
But new FGI guidelines have refocused the design of imaging spaces on care, according to an article on the Health Facilities Management website.
The range of patient acuity and intervention supported by imaging services now includes patients with altered mental status, emergent patients, critical/intensive care unit patients, post-surgical patients and those undergoing general anesthesia.
Also, healthcare providers are doing more for patients during imaging than in decades past, such as image-guided biopsies and image-guided therapies.
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