All categories - 19 December 2006

Hi!
I work on a transport team for a hospital. My job is to go out to surrounding hospitals and retrieve newly born infants that are ill and need speciality care.

The equipment we use is contained on a metal framed cart. We have an isolette to place the baby in, a transport monitor, and a transport ventilator. The vent does not require electricity to run. The isolette and monitor each have internal batteries to sustain them when we are on a trip.

The question/problem I have is that frequently we get shocked when we are pushing the cart. It doesn't matter if we are rolling on carpet or other flooring. It has shocked me rolling across concrete. I don't mean just a little shock either- sometimes it is really a lot. It also does it repeatedly. You get shocked, take a step or two, change hands on the cart and get shocked again- just as hard.

I just read the article by Mr. Static "Charging by Walking" and if I understood it correctly, it is possible to have static charge just by taking one step.

So, is it just static electricity shocking the crap out of me- repeatedly, or is there a potential electrical proble with our equipment that needs to be looked at?

It has only happened once, but one time when it shocked me I didn't let go- I intentially held on- I could feel what felt like a light electric current pulsing for several seconds. I have not had that happen again.

Everyone I work with thinks I am wrong for thinking it is anything more than static electricity. I think Biomed needs to check out our equipment.

What do you think?
Thanks! MO

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