Deck 10: Health Care Facilities

Question 1

The ____________________ is a system that provides light and power for the emergency systems of Article 700.

Answer 1

life safety branch

Question 2

Where is the emergency wiring system for a hospital housed?

Answer 2

The emergency wiring system in a hospital shall be in metal raceway.

Question 3

Generally, a patient location is served by branch-circuits from more than one ____________________.

Answer 3

panelboard

Question 4

What is the change to the 2011 Code regarding critical care area patient bed locations and multiwire branch-circuits?

Question 5

What is the general care area within a hospital?

Question 6

In a general care area, a minimum of ___________________ receptacle(s) is/are required to serve the patient bed location.

Question 7

What is the main goal of grounding in hospitals?

Question 8

The ____________________ is an area that is made intentionally wet for some specific purpose.

Question 9

A minimum of ____________________ branch-circuit(s) is/are required to serve a patient bed location in a general care area.

Question 10

The circuit wires from an isolated power system are permitted to share the same cable, raceway, box, or enclosure with circuit wires of any other system.

Question 11

Essential electrical systems must be connected to the normal power system and the standby power source through a(n) ____________________.

Question 12

Conductors are required to be identified by which two colors?

Question 13

What type of power system is required where flammable anesthetics are used?

Question 14

The patient equipment grounding point and the reference grounding point are frequently the same point for critical care areas.

Question 15

The ____________________ electrical system is an electrical system that is required to have an alternate source of power.

Question 16

How is the patient equipment grounding point installed?

Question 17

The receptacles at a general care patient bed location are permitted to be single receptacles, duplex receptacles, and now ____________________ receptacles.

Question 18

The wet procedure location is an area where a patient may be put in intimate contact with electrical equipment that may produce a real hazard of electrical shock to essential body organs, or where the reliability of the equipment is necessary for life support.

Question 19

A patient equipment grounding point is permitted but not required.

Question 20

Each operating room is required to have the circuits supplied by a separate isolation transformer.