Medical electrical equipment - General requirements for basic safety and essential performance. Collateral Standard: General requirements, tests and guidance for alarm systems in medical electrical equipment and medical electrical systemsWhat is this standard about? BS EN 60601 1 8 is part of a series of international standards on medical electrical equipment, covering basic safety and essential performance for both equipment and systems. It is a collateral standard its objective is to specify requirements that are in addition to those of the general standard. BS EN 60601 1 8 covers alarm systems and signals related to medical electrical equipment. It complements BS EN 60601 1. Who is

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routine maintenance and corrective maintenance

Note 1: BS EN IEC 60079-19 does not give advice on cable and wiring systems which can require a renewal when the equipment is re-installed

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Site conditions and investigations

Annex E (informative) Precision of the test result

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Annex C gives a worked example of calculating diagnostic coverage and should be read in conjunction with Annex C of IEC 61508-2

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