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Eliminate Medical Gas Shutdowns

01 About Smart Tap

Eliminate long, expensive shutdowns of gas and vacuum systems.

For hospitals and healthcare facilities, the word “shutdown” is a harbinger of endless planning meetings, scheduled overtime, costly rentals, purging, re-certification, and just plain aggravation, not to mention the introduction of another potential risk to patients – all just to tap into and gain access to the existing medical gas piping system.

Enter Smart Tap:

In 1999 SMART Technology, Inc was issued a US patent for developing a method for servicing a live pipeline. Using this process, hospitals now have an alternative to a medical gas system shutdown. An inline shutoff valve or any configuration of piping can be installed in the existing piping system while the facility’s main medical gas system remains fully operational.

02 Usage:

Smart Tap has been used in over 76,000 installations across the United States since 1999

Relocation of Bulk Gas Systems
Relocation of zone valves
Tie-ins of new additions and new buildings
Tie-ins of new medical gas risers
Capping off medical gas for renovations
Additions and deletions within a zone without effecting patients in the adjoining rooms, especially in NICU and ICU locations

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03 Video

Smart Tap

A patented product and procedure that controls medical gas from beginning to end, simplifying medical gas work.

Published in Plumbing Engineer Magazine. (PDF)

Smart Tap in depth (PDF)

Shape Memory Alloy

No contamination, simplicity, and speed of application of the space age shape memory alloy, Tinel, are the key elements of the procedure. They have the ability to return to a predetermined shape when heated. Tinel is an alloy comprising nickel and titanium from which a sleeve coupling is fabricated. Through an elaborate machining process, a sleeve coupling is made to a diameter that is 3 percent smaller than the outside diameter of the pipe being joined.

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SmartTap Presentation

05 Clients

06 Comparisons

Cost Centers for Medical Gas Shutdowns	WITHOUT SMART TAP	WITH SMART TAP
Planning Shutdown	Time, management spends on coordination and scheduling	NONE
Respiratory Staff	Depends on area of SHUTDOWN	NONE
Nursing Staff	Depends on area of SHUTDOWN	NONE
Maintenance Staff	Extra staff to monitor shut down areas, and closed valves	NONE
Contractor costs	Contractor Cost depends on size of shutdown. Usually 4 to 6 people	2 to 3 people
Certification	The entire area that was shutdown, which may include entire hospital	Just within the area of piping where the SMART Tap Procedure was performed
Outside Company or hospital supplied back up high pressure cylinders and rental of regulators, hoses, carts, stands, and demurrage on cylinders	As High as $100 per room	Included in cost. Only low pressure backup with safeties installed or hospital main medical gas system used. Calculated for demand usage.
Liability of removing patients from wall outlets and connecting them to cylinders	Insurance Policy Deductible	NONE
Liability of high pressure cylinder regulator failing and destroying gas piping and patients connected to them	Insurance Policy Deductible	NONE
Disruption of normal work routine at hospital	Worry about running out of back up gas, nursing and respiratory departments are not doing their normal patient care duties	NONE
Missed Opportunities	During shutdown of an area, the area is not available for patients or procedures	NONE

07 NFPA Standards

The following are excerpts from NFPA 99. These standards where put in NFPA 99 to ensure healthcare facilities about the safety and efficacy of the Smart Tap Procedure.

5.1.10.6 Memory Metal Fittings.

5.1.10.6.1 Memory metal fittings having a temperature rating not less than 538°C (1000°F) and a pressure rating not less than 2070 kPa (300 psi) shall be permitted to be used to join copper or stainless steel tube.

5.1.10.6.2 Memory metal fittings shall be installed by qualified technicians in accordance with the manufacturer’s instructions.

5.1.10.11.12 Breaching or Penetrating Medical Gas Piping.

5.1.10.11.12.1 Positive pressure patient medical gas piping and medical support gas piping shall not be breached or penetrated by any means or process that will result in residual copper particles or other debris remaining in the piping or affect the oxygen-clean interior of the piping.

5.1.10.11.12.2 The breaching or penetrating process shall ensure that any debris created by the process remains contained within the work area.
This was put in NFPA 99 to protect our process

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