Electrical Safety

What is electricity?

a medium that provides a means for transferring energy from one place to another

Flow of current occurs when

a person or conducting object bridges the gap between live conductors and the ground

Heart lung machines can cause the monitor to have what?

artifact

Ground Fault Circuit Interrupter (GFCI)

-fast-acting circuit breaker that is sensitive to very low levels of fluid leakage to ground -if fluid leakage becomes hazardous, it interrupts the circuit

Circuits of how much voltage can KILL?

110v

Most hospital use two levels of voltage, which are?

110v 220v

Heater/Cooler are designed to run on this amount of voltage?

220v

Wet area use these kind of circuits...

GFCI (ground fault circuit interrupter)

High voltage or low voltage can cause ventricular fibrillation.

Low voltage

What kind of electricity can a heart-lung machine produce?

Static

______ ___ is the factor that causes injury in electric shock, but ____ _________ will determine the path of flow.

current flow; body resistance

Any direct contact with 110 or 220V wiring has potential for?

electrocution

Red outlets provide what?

emergency power for critical care equipment

Heater/Cooler and Bypass machines can be plugged in same outlet. True or False?

false

GFCI circuit breakers are mainly used for?

outside wiring outlets

What do overcurrent devices do?

protect circuit from excessive heating by opening the circuit in the event of an overload

Static Electricity occur when

static electrical charges accumulate from friction between dissimilar materials; can cause a mild shock

Amps measure

the amount of electric current

Watts measure

the amount off work done by a certain amount of current under a certain pressure

Volts measure

the pressure under which electricity flows

Electric Shock can cause what kind of complications?

vascular injury cardiac arrest eye damage LOC