What kind of doors do hospitals use?

What kind of doors do hospitals use?

Hospital doors include lead doors for X-ray rooms, hospital patient room doors, ICU doors, etc. Good hospital door design plays an important role in preventing cross-contamination as well as providing fire and x-ray protection, maintaining correct room pressures, and ensuring optimum operating efficiency. Doors for hospitals are also being widely used in other places such as medical centres, healthcare centres, or electronic factories.

What Are Hospital Doors Made Of

The materials used in hospital doors are HPL, fireproof panel, galvanised steel, stainless steel, etc., amongst which wood and steel are the most commonly used.

The main reason for the use of wood for hospital doors? Considering the processing technology, there are more hospital door designs that can be designed, and there are many colours to choose from. Not only simple colours, but many wood grain colours and patterns. Similarly, there are more options for windows: round, square, rectangular, and even special-shaped windows can be used. However, there are many things to pay attention to when choosing wood: After a long time of use, the surface colour of the hospital door is prone to fading. If the moisture-proof technology is not done well in the selection of wood, the wooden hospital door is prone to rot. Similarly, wood cannot withstand termite corrosion, so hospitals need to pay attention to daily protection.

How Wide Are Hospital Doors?

There are many different types of doors used in hospitals, such as office doors, radiation protection doors, toilet doors, ward doors. The sizes of ward doors or patient doors require special attention. In order to facilitate the entry and exit of hospital beds, most of the hospital wards will use unequal door types. The size of the large part is within the range of 1300mm*2500mm. If it exceeds this size, a double hospital room doors design is required. The doors of hospital wards are usually equipped with windows, which can facilitate the medical staff to observe the patient's condition outside the door to prevent accidents.

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