Care of Electrical Equipments
• Many modern instruments and pieces of
equipment operate from mains voltage 110 or 240 V/AC. All electrical instruments have been tested for safety after manufacture and if not damaged in transport
can be assumed to be electrically safe on delivery.
• With use, cables are damaged, earth
connections can get loose or break, internal components can move with
vibration/ accidental damage. An incorrect alteration during repairs to the
circuit or safety fuses can result in dangerous voltages and currents reaching
the patient.
• Simple checks of plugs, fuses and cables
should be made regularly by the OT staff in charge of the electrical equipments
and routine maintenance checks performed by a qualified person at fixed
intervals as recommended by the manufacturer
• Earth connections and safety fuses
should be regularly checked, making sure that the correct loading fuses are
being used
• Damaged cables should be replaced
and any loose components such as switches and sockets repaired
• All equipments working from mains voltage
should have a circuit breaker in the supply lines
• All mains electrically powered instruments
should be kept dry
• Cardiac defibrillators deliver a high
voltage of several thousand volts, together with a relatively high current,
making a lethal combination to operator if any serious electrical
fault should occur, it is thus even more important that servicing and
maintenance of these instruments be entrusted to a qualified electrical
engineer
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