DEPARTMENT OF TECHNICAL EDUCATION

ANDHRA PRADESH
Name : J.Srinivasa Rao
Designation : Lecturer
Branch : Electronics & Communications
Institution : Govt Polytechnic Bellampally
Year/semester : VI semester
Subject : Analytical Instrumentation
Subject Code : AEI- 603
Topic : Computer Applications in Medicine(5/5)
Duration : 50mts
Sub Topic : Preventive measures to reduce shock
hazards &Maintaining safe patient
electrical environment(9/10)
Teaching aids :Diagrams, PPT

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 OBJECTIVES
On completion of this topic student will be able to
know …

• Preventive measures to reduce shock hazards

• Maintaining safe patient electrical environment

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 RECAP

• Computer applications in patient monitoring

• Computer applications in Patient management
• Computer applications in Hospital administration
• Patient safety
• Microshock
• Macroshock

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 PREVENTIVE MEASURES TO REDUCE
SHOCK HAZARDS

• To protect against shock, two general techniques

used are

3. Grounding

• Isolation

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 GROUNDING

• To shield the patient from all the sources of electrical

shock, it is best to connect to one common point
• All the nearby metal surfaces and all electronic
devices to which the patient is to be attached.
• This point is known as Equipotential patient
reference (EPR)
• which is connected to hospital grounding system.

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USE OF ISOLATION TRANSFORMER
&GROUNDING

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 ISOLATION

• The isolation is done with the help of Isolation

transformer.

• Either line A or line B can be short circuited to

ground without any current flowing through the short
connection

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 Maintaining safe patient electrical
environment

• Use only three wire power cable

• Supply all electrical equipment with in 5 m of the

patient from a single blank of power points that have
grounded terminals.

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 Maintaining safe patient electrical
environment

• Do not use any electrical outlets in the vicinity of the

patient.

• Supply the power points from a power line isolation

transformer with ground –fault monitors.

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 Maintaining safe patient electrical
environment
• Check the power cords for signs of damage and
ground continuity.

• Use monitoring equipment with isolated inputs

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 Maintaining safe patient electrical
environment

• With all the equipment turned on, measure the

potential between the common ground
• And all conductive surfaces within 5 m of patient
• No surfaces should be more than 5 mV from the
ground.

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 SUMMARY
We have discussed

• Preventive measures to reduce shock hazards

• Maintaining safe patient electrical environment

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 QUIZ
• To protect against the shock the following methods
used

a) grounding
b) isolation
c) a & b
d) None of the above

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 IMPORTANT QUESTIONS

• Explain the preventive measures taken to reduce

shock hazards
• How to maintain the safe patient electrical
environment

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