California Code of Regulations
Title 22 - Social Security
Division 5 - Licensing and Certification of Health Facilities, Home Health Agencies, Clinics, and Referral Agencies
Chapter 1 - General Acute Care Hospitals
Article 8 - Physical Plant
Section 70849 - Gases for Medical Use
Current through Register 2024 Notice Reg. No. 38, September 20, 2024
(a) Provision shall be made for safe handling and storage of medical gas cylinders.
(b) Transfer of gas by hospital personnel from one cylinder to another is prohibited except when approved by the Department.
(c) Gases for medical use include carbon dioxide, cyclopropane, ethylene, helium, nitrous oxide, oxygen, helium-oxygen mixtures and carbon dioxide-oxygen mixtures.
(d) All anesthesia machines and related equipment shall be so constructed that connections for different gases are not interchangeable.
This requirement shall be accomplished by installing permanent fittings as indicated below:
(e) The piped oxygen or nitrous oxide system(s) shall be tested in accordance with the National Fire Protection Association Bulletin, NFPA 99, referred to above, and a written report shall be maintained in each of the following instances:
(f) Oxygen Equipment.
1. Amendment of subsections (d)(1)-(4) and (e) and new NOTE filed 5-30-2023; operative 5-30-2023. Submitted to OAL for filing and printing only pursuant to Health and Safety Code section 1275(g) (Register 2023, No. 22).
Note: Authority cited: Sections 20, 21, 1275 and 1276, Health and Safety Code. Reference: Sections 1250 and 1254, Health and Safety Code.