2018 FGI Guidelines Webinar: Appropriate Room Use, Part 2—Imaging Room Classifications
Channel: Facility Guidelines Institute
Date: 2022-07-27

Presenters: Tobias Gilk, MRSO, MRSE (MRSCTM), MArch, RAD Planning, and Bryan Langlands, AIA, FACHA, EDAC, LEED GA, NBBJ

Description: This is the second part of a two-part webinar intended to clarify when to apply the FGI Guidelines requirements for exam, procedure, operating, and imaging rooms. The 2018 Health Guidelines Revision Committee created a new imaging classification system that provides basic imaging room requirements, with additional details for specific modalities, with the goal of making imaging room design more easily adaptable to new technologies. This webinar will help designers determine when a Class 1 (diagnostic), Class 2 (equivalent to a procedure room), or Class 3 (equivalent to an operating room) imaging room is required. Clearances required around the imaging equipment and patient position are also reviewed.

This webinar will enable viewers to:

1) Recognize the importance of learning from health care organizations what procedures are planned for imaging rooms to be designed.
2) Predict imaging room design needs based on the degree of invasiveness or risk to the patient of procedures to be performed in the room.
3) Explain how performing a safety risk assessment will help health care organizations and designers create imaging rooms appropriate for the procedures to be performed in them.
4) Take the lead in this new approach to determining design needs for imaging rooms, working with a project team that includes clinicians who will be using the finished facility.

*Please note that continuing education credit is no longer available for this webinar.