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Ok Geoff is there any Standard are use in UK for each plugs points in UK hospital, and what is the standards.
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It would seem that (after reviewing the earlier posts on this thread) the easy answer to that could be:- No.  But to be clear, are we talking about plug tops, or socket outlets?
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7 years on and we appear to have resolved our problem. Bit extreme but we built a new hospital along side the old and transferred into that. UP/IPS coming out of our ears now.
To bays in units, within pendant assebly, on vents. Rumour has it that we can even get the nurses to peddle bikes on dynamo if need be.
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Nice one, Karl. But what plug colour coding did you go for? 
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Previous hospital in Saudi we had:
White/Grey = Normal mains supply
Red = Generator standby supply
Blue = UPS
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Yes, Angus ... but I believe that we are primarily talking here about the plugs (see the initial post) as an indicator of the type (or, if you like, criticality) of the equipment plugged in.
In other words ... ways of reminding the cleaner not to unplug the ventilator, etc.
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Logic dictates that both the plugs and sockets should be colour coded
Last edited by Neil Porter; 26/08/10 3:09 PM.
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But ... do they need to be the same colour? That is, only plug in a red top to a red outlet, etc. ... why? After all, and as we have seen, the colours mean different things. The red plug could mean "Live Support Equipment" (or whatever), whilst the red socket may well simply mean "powered from the standby generator in the event of mains failure"!
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To continue the "debate". This is a comment worthy of further consideration, I reckon:- Another option is to fit red plug tops to equipment which does NOT have a battery, so unplug it and it stops. At least if you then unplug battery powered equipment it alarms to warn you it's lost it's supply. But (unless my own experiences have been less than the norm) surely this is the de-facto reality:- Someone explained to me how their ITU dealt with the problem of tangled mains cables at the head of the ITU beds ... Apparently they left all their detatchable mains leads plugged in to the walls and switched on at all times. When the nursing staff wanted to power a piece of equipment, they scrabbled around on the floor to find an unused IEC connector and plugged it in. When they had finished with a piece of equipment, they unplugged the IEC lead and dropped it back on the floor. No confusion - no problem ! Surely we have all come across "free" mains cables dangling from trunking and high-level outlets? I have seen whole platoons of them! As long as the cables don't actually reach the floor, and are all fused at the same (10 A?) rating ... what's the problem? Isn't this exactly how the so-called IEC cables are supposed to be used? 
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If it ain't got an internal battery then it ain't important.
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