TechNation’s webinars continue to deliver!
“TechNation’s webinars can save thousands of dollars and patient’s lives,” Christopher S. wrote after Jerry Zion from Fluke Biomedical presented “Everything You Want to Know About Electrical Testing, but Were Afraid to Ask.”
“TechNation continues to provide winning education along with necessary CEUs,” Joel P. added.
The August 10 webinar, sponsored by Fluke Biomedical, stressed safety.
The electrical safety of medical devices is significantly more stringent than those for other electrical equipment. The key concern is leakage current, which even at a very low voltage can cause harm or be fatal. With health care patients often simultaneously connected to several medical devices, testing for leakage becomes crucial.
During his presentation, Zion increased attendees’ knowledge of electrical safety testing, including unique situations such as testing double-insulated IEC 60601-1 Class II and Class IP medical devices, differences in testing IEC62353 and IEC61010 medical devices, and requirements of testing medical devices used in clinical laboratories in universities, health care facilities and research institutes.
Attendees were taught the variations in performing tests on medical devices, including those connecting to a mains power. Participants were shown how to measure electrical leakage of medical devices inside electrically isolated power systems such as intensive care units. Also, Zion discussed why electrical safety analyzers need to be a specific size, and various types of electrical safety analyzers.
Attendance continues to be high for the TechNation webinar series with 715 people watching Zion’s live presentation. Attendees gave the webinar high marks in their post-webinar surveys. Marisol S. summed up the overall feeling of participants regarding the TechNation webinar series: “It’s a great opportunity for technicians to engage and learn what’s happening in our field of medical equipment. If I had to rate it like people rate on eBay it would say AA++++++++.”
To find out more about the TechNation webinar series, including a schedule of upcoming presentations, visit www.1TechNation.com/webinar.