These
Examples include, but are not limited to, inpatient bedrooms, dialysis rooms, in vitro fertilization rooms, procedural rooms, and similar rooms.
Category 2 (General Care) Space
517.2
Patient Bed Location
517.18(A)
Exit Signs
517.33(B)
Scope
517.1
Minimum number of receptacles in a patient bed location
8
517.18(B)(1)
Installation of High-Tension X-Ray Cables
517.77
Critical Branch
517.34
Ammeter
517.160(B)(3)
Signal Transmission Between Appliances
517.82
Battery Systems
517.30(B)(3)
These loads shall not be transferred if the transfer will overload the generating equipment.
517.31(B)(1)(1)
Hospital power sources and alternate power sources shall be permitted to serve the essential electrical systems of contiguous or same site facilities.
517.31(B)(2) Contiguous Facilities
Except as permitted in 517.160, each power circuit within, or partially within, a flammable anesthetizing location as referred to in 517.60 shall be isolated from any distribution system by the use of an isolated power system.
517.61(A)(1)
517.34(A)(10)
Listed seals shall be provided in conformance with 501.15, and 501.15(A)(4) shall apply to horizontal as well as to vertical boundaries of the defined hazardous (classified) locations.
517.61(B)(4)
Outside of a Patient Care Vicinity
517.16(B)
Systems shall have a continuing source of fuel supply, together with sufficient on-site fuel storage for the essential system type.
517.30(B)(2)(4)
No surgical treatment requiring general anesthesia is offered.
517.40(A) Exception:(2)
Essential electrical equipment system components shall be located to minimize interruptions caused by natural forces common to the area (eg., storms, floods, earthquakes, or hazards created by adjoining structures or activities).
517.30(C)
Power distribution system that inherently limits the possible ground-fault current due to a first fault to a low value, without interrupting the power supply
517.20(A)(1)
True or False
Each patient bed location shall be supplied by at least two branch circuits, one or more from the critical branch and one or more circuits from the normal system. At least two branch circuits from the critical branch shall supply an outlet(s) only at that bed location.
False
517.19(A)
*At least one branch circuit from the critical branch
True or False
Receptacles and attachment plugs rated 250 volts, for connection of 50-ampere and 60-ampere ac medical equipment for use in unclassified locations, shall be arranged so that the 60-ampere receptacle will accept either the 50-ampere or the 60-ampere plug. Fifty-ampere receptacles shall be designed so as to accept the 60-ampere plug.
False
517.62(C)(3)
*designed so as not to accept the 60-ampere plug
True or False
In hazardous (classified locations referred to in 517.60, all fixed wiring and equipment and all portable equipment, including lamps and other utilization equipment, operating at more than 10 volts between conductors shall comply with the requirements of 501.1 through 501.25, and 501.100 through 501.150, and 501.30(A) and 501.30(B) for Class I, Division 1 locations. All such equipment shall be specifically approved for the hazardous atmospheres involved.
True
517.61(A)(3)
True or False
Loads dedicated to a specific generator, including the fuel transfer pump(s), ventilation fans, electrically operated louvers, controls, cooling system, and other generator accessories essential for generator operation, shall be connected to the life safety branch or to the output terminals of the generator with overcurrent protective devices.
True
517.33(F)
True or False
In any anesthetizing area, all metal raceways and metal-sheathed cables and all normally non-current-carrying conductive portions of fixed electrical equipment shall be connected to a grounding electrode conductor. Grounding and bonding in Class I locations shall comply with 501.30.
False
517.62
*shall be connected to an equipment grounding conductor