Additionally, the Access Board proposed specific technical requirements for breast platforms of mammography equipment....
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4. Breast Platform Adjustability
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1. Standing Supports
For mammography equipment, the MDE Advisory Committee came to a consensus agreeing with the commenter that the “standing supports” on mammography equipment were actually positioning supports...
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b. Positioning Supports
– Standing Supports) and below in Section V.C.17 (Section-by-Section Analysis – M305.2), the MDE Advisory Committee made recommendations to add requirements for positioning supports on mammography...
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iii. Radiological Diagnostic equipment
of radiological diagnostic equipment, such as Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI), Positron Emission Tomography (PET), and X-rays, including Computerized Axial Tomography (CAT) scans and mammography...
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M303 Diagnostic Equipment Used by Patients in a Wheelchair (Section-by-Section Analysis)
M303 in the final rule establishes the technical requirements for diagnostic equipment used by patients seated in a wheelchair, such as weight scales with wheelchair spaces and mammography...
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M303.1 General (Section-by-Section Analysis)
This is an introductory section.
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M303.2 Wheelchair spaces (Section-by-Section Analysis)
This is an introductory section.
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M303.2.1 Orientation (Section-by-Section Analysis)
The MDE NPRM proposed to require wheelchair spaces to be designed so that a patient in a wheelchair using diagnostic equipment would be oriented in the same direction that other...
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M303.2.2 Width (Section-by-Section Analysis)
The MDE NPRM proposed to require that diagnostic equipment used by patients seated in a wheelchair provide a wheelchair space that was at least 36 inches wide. There were no public...
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M303.2.3 Depth (Section-by-Section Analysis)
this provision is not a clear space requirement for wheelchair approach, but is instead the wheelchair space integral to diagnostic equipment for a patient seated in a wheelchair, such as mammography...
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M303.2.4 Equipment Clearances (Section-by-Section Analysis)
The MDE Advisory Committee only provided recommendations pertaining to the knee and toe clearance for mammography equipment....
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M303.2.5 Surfaces (Section-by-Section Analysis)
The MDE NPRM proposed to require diagnostic equipment used by patients seated in a wheelchair to provide a wheelchair space with a surface that does not slope more than 1:48 in any...
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M303.4.1 Breast Platform Adjustability (Section-by-Section Analysis)
The MDE NPRM proposed a mammography breast platform height range of 30 inches high minimum and 42 inches high maximum above the floor....
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M304 Diagnostic Equipment Used by Patients in Standing Position (Section-by-Section Analysis)
M304 in the final rule establishes the technical criteria for diagnostic equipment used by patients in a standing position such as a weight scale or x-ray equipment that is used in a...
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M304.1 General (Section-by-Section Analysis)
This is an introductory section.
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M304.2 Standing Surface (Section-by-Section Analysis)
The MDE NPRM proposed to require that the standing surface on which patients stand be slip resistant. In preparing the final rule, the Board has determined that as previously drafted...
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M304.2.1 Slip Resistant (Section-by-Section Analysis)
The MDE NPRM proposed to require that the standing surface on which patients stand be slip resistant. One manufacturer commented on this requirement, requesting that the rule provide...
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M304.2.2 Standing Supports (Section-by-Section Analysis)
The MDE NPRM proposed requiring standing supports on each side of the standing surface of diagnostic equipment used by patients in the standing position, and compliance with the...
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M305 Supports (Section-by-Section Analysis)
M305 in the final rule provides the technical requirements for transfer supports, standing supports, leg supports, and head and back supports. Transfer supports are required for...
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M305.1 General (Section-by-Section Analysis)
This is an introductory section.
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M305.3 Standing Supports (Section-by-Section Analysis)
M305.3 provides the technical requirements for standing supports which are required on diagnostic equipment covered by M304. This provision has been reorganized in the final rule...
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M305.3.1 Length (Section-by-Section Analysis)
In the MDE NPRM, the Access Board proposed a gripping surface length of four inches minimum for horizontal standing supports. No public comments were submitted on this requirement....
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M305.3.2 Height (Section-by-Section Analysis)
For horizontal supports, the MDE NPRM proposed a gripping surface height of 34 inches minimum and 38 inches maximum above the standing surface. There were no public comments on this...
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M305.3.3 Fittings (Section-by-Section Analysis)
The MDE NPRM proposed to prohibit standing supports from rotating in their fittings. There were no comments on this section and it was not addressed by the MDE Advisory Committee....