Recommendations and standards for building and testing an Intensive Care Unit (ICU) electrical installation
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2012-01-09
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Χριστοδούλου, Χριστόφορος
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The Intensive Care Unit, well known as ICU, is a specialized section of a hospital that provides comprehensive and continuous care (treatment and monitoring) for persons who are critically ill or in an unstable condition and who can benefit from treatment. The importance of this specific area of the hospital can be also understood from the amount and variety of the equipment that is installed inside. Therefore the Intensive Care Unit (ICU) should provide both continuous fault-free equipment operation and enhanced electrical safety for the patients and the medical staff.
The main objective of the thesis is to study and design the electrical installation and the dedicated devices of a sample ICU, according to the latest European regulations and standards.
In the first introductory chapter is described the main ICU medical equipment, patient modules, areas and utilities. The second chapter contains the Main Standards, Directives and Recommendations related to the building installing and testing of the ICU electrical installation and dedicated equipment. Chapter three described general the electrical safety in the ICU and the methods and means of protection against an Electrical shock. The next chapter reviews the methods and means of protection against an Equipment Malfunction and against Mains power failure. The fifth chapter is the design of a sample ICU Area including main power electrical installation and dedicated protection and monitoring devices. The last chapter includes the electrical safety tests of the installed system and dedicated devices and also the value limitations according to the European Standards and Regulations.
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Biomedicine, Intensive Care Units (ICU)