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Oh god where do have hospitals regular power outages?
Cape Town, South Africa.
Not "regular outages" where I've worked, but natural disasters and such can happen. Back-up generators run things, but ya still gotta make sure your equipment is plugged into the "generator supplied" outlets.
But now the employees don't have AC and such. And than the networks are down, so you have to paper-chart everything and the orders get slowed up and... it's a whole thing. Not the end of the world if you know what you're doing, but it can be dangerous if people don't pay attention. It just makes it a bit more stressful to do your job well
Most likely their backup generators only power the absolutely critical equipment and everything else still goes down when the power goes off.
Normally, there are plugs labeled for critical equipment (as in, they're connected to the generators even if the power goes out). But yeah, everything non-essential is kinda down.
You still absolutely need to go check your equipment during a power outage, and make sure your "critical" stuff is plugged into the "generator outlets". There's battery power on (pretty much) all critical equipment, so you have a buffer.
I personally don't rely on batteries being my backup, and keep my critical stuff plugged into the labeled outlets... but you still gotta check; and deal with power being out for everything else
For ICU Beds they are a different colour from what I've seen.
Red colored plugs.
Yes, I've only seen red ones
I should have said color-coded instead of labeled. But yeah, I've only seen red plugs like that