Design Criteria for Medical and Dental Suites in Aircraft Carriers and Large Auxiliaries.
Abstract
This study presents, in drawings and text, the functional design requirements of the Bureau of Medicine and Surgery for medical/dental suites in those types of ships. These suites are based upon design criteria which have been developed earlier for discrete types of dental and medical spaces, and are intended to combine appropriate numbers and types of such spaces into an optimal arrangement. The report takes into account the existing equipment limitations and shipboard constraints. Using the present state-of-the-art as a baseline, an outline of an R and D program will be developed. Accomplishment of this program is expected to reduce or to eliminate, in future ships, the effects of the existing equipment limitations and shipboard constraints. These design criteria are intended to assist the Naval Sea Systems Command in designing and building shipboard medical/dental suites which will most efficiently and economically accomplish their purpose. They embody arrangements of modern types of equipment which take advantage of recent advances in techniques and equipment design and, at the same time, require a minimum of space.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Jul 01, 1977
- Accession Number
- ADA044306
Entities
People
- Francis B. Merkle