Question on Hospital Cabling

[Stacyjo5]

I am looking for information on cabling in hospital and clean room environments. Situations that require dust containment, etc. Anyone have any good resources or can point me in the right direction?

Thanks in Advance

 

[mikeydidit]

http://www.jointcommission.org/

You can find some of what you are after here Stacyjo5.

It sounds like you are aware that hospitals can be a real pain to work in on cabling jobs. Most have internal policies, above the ceiling permits and campus cabling standards, so be sure to find those too. The worst areas are the ICU's, ER's, OR's and Burn units. Our infection control people work with us on most of these. The dust barrier curtains are not that exspensive, but it will slow you down a lot.

Hope this helps and let me know if you need more.

"Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something."
(Plato)

 

[orypecos]

You probably already know this, but remember that all outlets need to be tested for physical and electrical compliance after installing and every year in most cases. In addition, most biomedical engineers believe that less than 50 mico amps difference in ground potential between two outlets can cause fribulation, so grounding is very important. It shouldn't be a problem because biomedical electronics is suppose to be tested for compliance to not let this leakage kill someone, even if it exists, but why take the chance? 50 micro amps is far below the amount that you could ever feel so the 'finger test' is not going to do any good.

 

[pbxn]

When I worked in a hospital all cabling vendors were required to use a barrier, and a hepa filter while running cable in any portion of the hospital. As mentioned this is usually a site by site policy. Ask some hospital mangement what your hospitals policy is and if they do not know, talk to legal, they should know for sure.