3 (6 pts) Safety Codes and Standards (a) (1 pt) The National Electric Code (NEC) for 2006, Article 517-13, defines a "Hospital Grade" standard. What is this standard and why is it important?
pt) What are the maximal potentials permitt conductive Article 517-15? surfaces in the vicinity of the patient ass potentials permitted between any two exposed specified by the 2006 NEC 1. General-care areas: 2. Critical-care areas: (c) (1 pt) Article 517 of the 2006 National Electrical Code specifies the emergency electrical system required for health-care facilities. How long is an emergency system required the normal source? to automatically restore power after interruption of
(d) (1 pt) What were the two sets of medical equipment standards ornigna adopted in the mid 1980s? (e) (1 pt) The Association for the Advancement of Medical instrumentation (AAMI) developed an American national Standard Electro-medical Apparatus, "ANSI/AAMI ESI-1993. This standard concerns limits on chassis and patient-lead leakage currents, which are fixed from de to kHz and increase from 1 kHz to 100 kHz. What are these standards for patient and chassis leakage currents? on "safe Current Limits for
(f) (1 pt) Summarize the IEC 60601 standard.