Service continuity in hospitals: Overload risks in operating theaters

Author

Parise, L. ; Lamedica, R.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Inf., Odelling, Electron. & Syst., Univ. of Calabria (UNICAL), Rende, Italy

fYear

2015

fDate

27-30 May 2015

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

6

Abstract

The paper presents features and protections that the system shall to have in operating theaters and intensive care units (group 2 medical locations) to avoid power outage for fault due to ground faults, overcurrents and overvoltages and interference problems to medical electrical (ME) equipment due to electromagnetic compatibility.

Keywords

hospitals; overcurrent protection; overvoltage protection; power distribution faults; power distribution protection; power distribution reliability; ME equipment; electromagnetic compatibility; ground faults; group 2 medical locations; intensive care units; interference problems; medical electrical equipment; operating theaters; overcurrents; overload risks; overvoltages; power outage; service continuity; Circuit faults; Medical diagnostic imaging; Monitoring; Safety; Surge protection; Surgery; Surges; Group 2 medical locations; IT-M system; electrical safety; load diagram forecast; load diagram monitoring; overload risk; surgical operation;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Energy (IYCE), 2015 5th International Youth Conference on

Conference_Location

Pisa

Print_ISBN

978-1-4673-7171-1

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/IYCE.2015.7180804

Filename

7180804