Indigenous development of medical electrical safety analyzer

Abstract

In order to achieve the required high level of electrical safety of electro-medical equipment, regulatory bodies worldwide have developed standards and guidelines to control their design as well as their use in hospitals and other health care delivery settings. It is highly essential that periodic preventive maintenance and electrical safety checks on all electro-medical equipment in use be carried out and records of these be maintained. International standard for routine testing of medical equipments at hospitals and clinics is International Electro technical Commission (IEC) 62353. This paper deals with the design and development of an indigenous Medical Electrical Safety Analyzer, which will conduct safety tests as per this standard. The safety tests like Earth bond test, Leakage current and Insulation tests to be conducted as per the standard are also discussed.