jaue2015071: Study on Medical Equipment Electric Load in Time of Disaster

Abstract

In medical activities in time of disaster, as a result of concerns about capacity shortage of self-power generation or early consumption of the fuel storage, use of medical equipment was limited. By doing that, medical activities could not be carried out sufficiently have been reported. In this study, we aim to grasp the medical equipment electric load required for disaster medical activities by investigating the medical equipment to be used and the priority of medical activities in disaster medicine. A questionnaire survey was conducted to target the disaster base hospital. About 14 hospitals obtained responded, we grasped the priorities and the required medical equipment for disaster medicine, it was analyzed in the power consumption associated therewith. The acquired knowledge summarized to below. Equipment used for image diagnostic tests (X-ray, CT and MRI) and sterilization (automatic washing machine) power consumption is large. Therefore, the number of hospitals that are connected to these equipment as a supply destination of inhouse power generation is small, medical activities that use these equipment in time of disaster is difficult to implement. If power consumption is properly grasped in time of disaster, it shows that there is a possibility of expanding the disaster medical activities.