Pierre C Belarge
Senior Member
- Location
- Westchester County, New York
The definition of
Patient Bed Location. The location of a patient sleeping bed, or the bed or procedure table of a critical care area.
Critical Care Areas. Those special care units, intensive care units, coronary care units, angiography laboratories, cardiac catheterization laboratories, delivery rooms, operating rooms, and similar areas in which patients are intended to be subjected to invasive procedures and connected to line-operated, electromedical devices.
517.18 General Care Areas.
(B) Patient Bed Location Receptacles.
This section requires Hospital Grade receptacles. Yet, Patient Bed Locations by definition are located in Critical Care Areas, not General Care Locations.
How is this not a conflict?
Patient Bed Location. The location of a patient sleeping bed, or the bed or procedure table of a critical care area.
Critical Care Areas. Those special care units, intensive care units, coronary care units, angiography laboratories, cardiac catheterization laboratories, delivery rooms, operating rooms, and similar areas in which patients are intended to be subjected to invasive procedures and connected to line-operated, electromedical devices.
517.18 General Care Areas.
(B) Patient Bed Location Receptacles.
This section requires Hospital Grade receptacles. Yet, Patient Bed Locations by definition are located in Critical Care Areas, not General Care Locations.
How is this not a conflict?