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Ahead of Children’s Day, I thought about whether there was anything I could do about the children’s care, whether there was anything I should think about, whether there was anything that the public should know widely.

We are consulting on disaster mitigation and are also registered electrical construction companies, so we considered power outages and power outages.

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Medical care children and medical caregivers

In recent years, the name of medical care children and medical care providers has been widely used.
Children and patients who need daily care such as artificial respiration and sputum suction even when they go out of the hospital, such as from inpatient care that is closely in contact with medical personnel and medical and welfare facilities, are called medical care children and medical care workers.

In the hospital, medical care and safety are optimized under the control of the director, but at home, patients and caregivers in charge are the main focus, and children in particular are often the caregiver of the family, and not only the healthcare system such as medical care, welfare, and health care, but also child-rearing and education are involved.

By having a place of care at home, you need the same treatment environment as when you were hospitalized, and you also need a living environment for living.
There are parts that sacrifice either, but there are many essential elements, so the sanatorium environment has a speciality.

[Reference] Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare: Measures to support children in medical care and their families
[Reference] Act on Support for Medical Care Children and Their Families

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Menu

  1. Medical care children and medical caregivers
  2. Benefits of Child Care at Home
  3. Increased child care at home
  4. Legal Changes and Medical Care Children
  5. Features of the convalescent living environment (Ryo-Yo-Jyu-Kankyo)
  6. Medical equipment
  7. Equipment for sanatorium living environment
  8. The outlet is exchanged.
  9. Exchange and expansion of lighting
  10. Switched telephones
  11. Preliminary power supply for sanatorium housing
  12. Medical and living environment know-how
  13. Ratings and Effectiveness
  14. It should be measured.
  15. Waveform also measured
  16. Request for measurement
  17. Portable Power Supply Specification
  18. Mobile battery capacity calculation
  19. Portable power supply duration
  20. Experimental Portable Power Supply
  21. The electrician’s intervention.
  22. Talk to a professional.
  23. Ultra-rare excellence human resources
  24. Life and Pro Bono
  25. Lectures, committee members, advisory board, and reception.

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Benefits of Child Care at Home

Continuing care at home is expected to improve the comfort of the affected child.

During the hospitalization, only the area around the bed is a private space, and the bed is also in contact with the common space with one curtain and one unlocked door, so it is not a completely private space.

In the home, where the entire space is a private space, you can set up a toy room and study room, and the rhythm of life can be created mainly for the affected child.

You have limited opportunities to meet your siblings while in the hospital, but you can meet them every day at home. Easy access to family is a major benefit of children’s home care.

Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare: Measures to support children in medical care and their families
[Reference] Tottori Prefecture: Support for children in medical care
Johns Hopkins Care at Home
Johns Hopkins: Pediatric Home Health Care – What You Need to Know

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Increased child care at home

The figure below is the estimate of the number of patients with home-based artificial respiration therapy.

Since it is calculated from the medical fee, there is a ambiguity about the unit of “people”, but compared with FY2016 and FY2021, it has increased by about one and a half times in relative terms.


Children in medical care will no longer be pediatric patients when they reach the age of fifteen. There are many cases where pediatric patients remain as pediatric patients due to the degree of growth and changes in the pathophysiology.

Even if you enlarge it to under the age of nineteen and look at the same data, you can still see an increase of about one and a half times.

*. Medical fee C164 (respirator addition) can be calculated once a month. The number of patients by age is calculated annually, and the number of patients per month is estimated, excluding by twelve.


[Reference] Kenichi Nishi: Support for BCP formulation of patients in medical care children and optimization of sanatorium living environment
[Reference] NES: Provision of data that reassemble data on receipt (medical fee) aggregated data
[Reference] Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare: Health and Medical NDB Open Data

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Legal Changes and Medical Care Children

In the aforementioned 2016s and 2021s, there were legal amendments that changed the environment surrounding children in medical care.

In the revision of the Child Welfare Law, administrative support for children in medical care became mandatory.
The sixth and second paragraphs of Article 56 indicate that local governments must strive to receive appropriate care.

Chapter VII Miscellaneous Provisions

Article 56-6

In order to promote the welfare of children, a local government may, for the purpose of paying Benefits for Daycare Benefits for Disabled Children, Special Daycare Benefits for Disabled Children, Large-amount Daycare Benefits for Disabled Children, Benefits for Consultation Support for Disabled Children, Special Consultation Support Benefits for Disabled Children, Nursing Care Benefits, etc., Benefits for Institutionalized Disabled Children, Large-amount Institutionalized Benefits for Disabled Children or Benefits for Meal Expenses, etc. for Specified Institutionalized Disabled Children, pay the expenses for the daycare expenses for disabled children, the expenses for the daycare expenses for daycare expenses for disabled children, and the expenses for the daycare expenses for the daycare expenses for disabled children. (ii) A local public entity shall mutually communicate and coordinate with each other so that the payment of Benefits for Consultation Support for Disabled Children, Nursing Care Benefits, etc., Benefits for Admission of Disabled Children, Benefits for Admission of High-Cost Disabled Children or Benefits for Meal Expenses, etc. for Specified Institutionalized Disabled Children, measures and daycare services pursuant to the provisions of Article 21-6, Article 21-18 paragraph (2), Article 24 paragraph (5) or (6) or Article 27 paragraph (1) or (2) and other welfare guarantees are appropriately provided.

(ii) Local governments shall establish a system for liaison and coordination with organizations that provide support in health, medical care, welfare and other related fields so that children with disabilities who are fitted with ventilators or who require medical care in order to lead their daily lives can receive appropriate support in health, medical care, welfare and other related fields in accordance with their physical and mental conditions. (iii) Efforts shall be made to take necessary measures to develop a system to provide children’s self-reliant living assistance services, children’s self-reliant living assistance services, children’s self-reliant living assistance services, children’s self-reliant living assistance services and children’s self-reliant living assistance services

(iii) A person engaged in children’s self-reliant living assistance services, social foster care services or after-school child sound upbringing services and an establisher of a child welfare institution shall, in conducting such services or operating such institution, endeavor to provide consultation services for children and their families and other active support in accordance with local conditions, while maintaining mutual coordination.

Child welfare law

With the enforcement of the Medical Care Child Support Act in 2021, it has been transformed into a responsibilities.

Chapter I General Provisions

(Purpose)

Article 1 In view of the fact that the number of children with medical care is increasing and their conditions are diversifying in line with advances in medical technology, and that it has become an important issue to ensure that children with medical care and their families receive appropriate support that is tailored to their individual physical and mental conditions, this Act shall be enacted to provide basic principles concerning support for children with medical care and their families. In light of the importance of ensuring that children with medical care and their families receive appropriate support that is tailored to their individual mental and physical conditions, the Government of Japan has established basic principles for support for children with medical care and their families, clarified the responsibilities of the national government and local governments, and established measures to expand childcare and education and other necessary measures, and designated support centers for children with medical care, thereby promoting the healthy development of children with medical care and preventing their families from leaving the workforce. (Definitions) Article 2 The purpose of this Act is to contribute to the realization of a society in which people can give birth to and raise children with peace of mind.

(Definitions)

Article 2 The term “medical care” as used in this Act means respiratory management using a ventilator, suctioning of sputum and other medical treatment.

(2) The term “child with medical care” as used in this Act means a child for whom it is indispensable to receive constant medical care in order to lead a daily life and social life.

(Basic Principles)

Article 3 Support for children with medical care and their families shall be provided with the aim of supporting the daily life and social life of children with medical care throughout society.

(2) Support for children with medical care and their families shall be provided according to the age of each individual child with medical care, the type of medical care he/she needs and the actual conditions of his/her life, such as appropriate support for education while giving maximum consideration so that he/she can receive education together with children who are not children with medical care, and shall be provided by relevant organizations that provide services related to medical care, health, welfare, education, labor, etc. (2) The support shall be provided in a seamless manner in accordance with the age of each individual child with medical care, the type of medical care he/she needs, and the actual conditions of his/her life, and under close coordination among relevant organizations and private organizations that provide services related to medical care, health, welfare, education, labor, etc.

(3) Support for children with medical care and their families shall be provided with consideration to enable children with medical care to lead their daily life and social life while receiving appropriate health and welfare services even after they reach the age of 18 or graduate from high school, etc.

(4) In taking measures pertaining to support for children with medical care and their families, the will of the children with medical care and their guardians shall be respected to the maximum extent.

(5) In taking measures pertaining to support for medically-aged children and their families, the national government shall make it a principle to ensure that medically-aged children and their families receive appropriate support equally, regardless of their area of residence.

(Responsibilities of the National Government)

Article 4 The national government shall be responsible for comprehensively implementing measures pertaining to support for children with medical care and their families in accordance with the basic principles set forth in the preceding Article.

(Responsibilities of Local Governments)

Article 5 Local governments shall be responsible for implementing measures pertaining to support for children with medical care and their families in accordance with the Basic Principles and in coordination with the national government, in a voluntary and proactive manner.

(Omitted hereafter)

Act on Support for Children in Medical Care and Their Families

[Reference] The Child Welfare Act
[Reference] Act on Support for Medical Care Children and Their Families
[Reference] National Medical Care Child Support Council: Medical Care Child Support Law
[Reference] Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (MEXT): Further promotion of cooperation in health, medical care, welfare, education, etc. for support for children in medical care
[Reference] Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare: Measures to support children in medical care and cooperation in health, medical care, welfare, education, etc.
[Reference] Policy Evaluation Office of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare Policy Evaluation Office of the Policy Evaluation Office: For children and families in need of medical care to live comfortably and with peace of mind

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Features of the convalescent living environment (Ryo-Yo-Jyu-Kankyo)

The following are some of the features of a convalescent living environment.

Hospitalization environmentMedical environment
Facilities for exclusively medical careNot medical only
Not a house.Residential and use
Health workers are stationedThere are no permanent health care workers.
Medical workers are staffed.Health care workers are guests.
Seamless medical care and nursing careBusiness operators are different for each service.
Hospitalization fee incurredThere will be rent and maintenance costs
The patient is a guest.The patient is a member of the host family.
The patient’s family is a guest.The patient’s family is the host and landlord.
Facility management responsibility is on the medical sideFacility management is the responsibility of the patient.
Strict standards of the Fire Service Act apply.The Fire Service Act is a general home.
Waste is business waste.Waste is household waste.
The full health care law applies.Medical law is partly applicable.

The characteristic of the sanatorium living environment is that patients and families live in buildings that are not built for medical use and have medical equipment such as ventilators while receiving care using medical equipment such as ventilators.


[Reference] Ministry of the Environment: Guide to promote efforts to treat home medical waste (study group on how to treat home medical waste)
[Reference] Japanese Medical Association: A Guide to Handling Home Medical Waste
[Reference] Osaka City: When the waste associated with home medical care is disposed of (please)

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Medical equipment

The wall near the inpatient bed is equipped with medical gas outlets as shown in the figure below. Beds that often use oxygen, such as ICUs and HCUs, were popular about twenty years ago, but since then, the deployment of all beds has become universal.

OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA

The fact that there is an outlet means that the central piping of medical gas is laid.
The backyard is equipped with an oxygen cylinder (tank) and suction pump.


In the hospital bed, not only medical gas but also nurse calls, lighting, and power outlets are installed.


Most medical toilets are made in the same way. Although there is a difference in whether there is a lid on the toilet seat, the warm water washing toilet seat, automatic washing (flush), handrails, nurse calls, etc. are common.

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Equipment for sanatorium living environment

I think that parents born in the Heisei era and children born in Heisei or Reiwa are the generation of children who are born in Heisei or Reiwa, but in terms of home care in general, there are quite a few people who live in houses built before the 1950s.

Toilets are being washed, but I think there are still many, such as a house that is not a warm water washing toilet seat, a house without a handrail, and a house where there is no gap for caregivers.


There is no idea of the floorhead, and it is not built for care, so I think that the outlet is 20-30cm high at the foot.
The outlet with ground is only a microwave oven or an air conditioner in the house of Reiwa-zukuri, and I think that it is rare to see a case of laying ground around the bed.

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The outlet is exchanged.

I think it is better to replace the wall outlet before starting home medical care.

The cream-colored outlets with the aforementioned Showa feeling are Matsushita Denko’s “High Corners” equipment.
After that, the “Full Color” series was the standard for about forty years, but in recent years, Cosmos has been adopted in price-oriented construction houses, partly because the Cosmo series has fallen low.

One of the differences between high-angle and modern outlets is strength. Even if the outlet is treated poorly as shown in the figure below, a certain level of safety is maintained.


There is also a difference in the holding force against wiring.

In the era of high angle, copper wire was held by the screw tightening method, so if the screw loosens, it will cause contact failure. The head of the screw is a minus, so there is also an anxiety factor in the tightening force.
After full color, it is a plug-in type. This is a specification common to lighting fixtures.


There is a difference not only in the appearance strength but also in the insulation performance. There are traces of evolution in the material, structure, and joining of the gold frame of the body part called the body.

The high-angle outlet has a gold frame fixed the body in two places up and down, and its metal part extends to the back.
The full-color outlet has a gold frame fixed in four places on the left and right sides, and the metal part is stopped on the side.


Although it is a detailed point, the relationship with body screws etc. is also changing.

The high angle has a thread hole for the plate fixing between the body screw and the body, and the plate was fixed directly from the outside, so it was possible that it came into contact with the screw, which is a metal, when plugging in.
After full color, the plate fixed screw moved upwards of the body screw, and the plate became separate from the frame and cover, so the screw disappeared outside the cover plate (visible range).

“Full color” on the left, high angle on the right

If you use high angle, it is recommended to replace the outlet as soon as possible.

Even if you are using full color, if you are in a place with many unpluggings, the spring action of the internal charging part and the part that comes into contact with the blade of the plug may be weakened, so I think it is good to replace it before starting home medical care.

The outlet body is not expensive, but you can not work without an electric construction worker’s license, so it costs some labor.
It is reasonable to have several jobs on a single business trip (visit), so it is recommended to consider other than the outlet exchange.

Panasonic embedded double outlet WTP1502WK
It is a set of embedded double outlets.


[Reference] NES: Concentrated by concealed wiring

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Exchange and expansion of lighting

The home environment is also a place for medical care.

Care is not only a treatment, but also an opportunity to capture physical changes.

If possible, if it is as bright as a hospital, doctors and nurses are more likely to notice abnormalities when observing because the sample data to be compared is in the mind empirically.

Depending on the structure of the building, lighting and switches may be added with a cover-up wiring.


The above figure is an example of successful expansion with hidden wiring. The upper left is the original main lighting, and new lighting is added on both sides. In addition, the downlight and rite ducts have been added to the ceiling that has been lowered one step in the back. These switches are added with a cover-up wiring to the entrance.

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Switched telephones

The switchboard is an important facility, so it is recommended to check whether it is necessary to replace it.

It is best to ask the electrician where to look.
Even medical professionals can teach you if you have more details.

The figure below is a TEPCO specification A1230A. You can start home health care even with this switchboard, but if you are asked whether it is safe as it is, we will check some points by visiting surveys or by video chat.


[Reference] NES: Different power contracts depending on the region

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Preliminary power supply for sanatorium housing

If the electrical equipment is not safe, even if the commercial power supply is not blacked out, there will be a power outage in the house. I introduced some of them as a workaround.

It is important to check from a professional point of view, so please consult an electrical contractor when you actually start home medical care.

Even if the electrical equipment is appropriate, if the electricity that comes from the power pole stops, the home equipment will not be utilized.

What is needed is a backup power supply that replaces a commercial power supply.

When we focus on medical devices and talk about them, there are several ideas of “alternative” and “preparation”.

  • Built-in battery
  • External Battery
  • General-purpose storage battery (portable battery)
  • Generator (engine type)
  • Automotive (DC12V)
  • Automotive (V2H・AC100/200V)
  • Functional replacement (function in a completely different way)

In order to think about the best mix, it is necessary to have both knowledge of both medical equipment and electrical equipment, so it is necessary to cooperate with medical professionals such as clinical engineering engineers and medical personnel, and equipment engineers such as electrical construction workers.


[Reference] NES: Demonstration in a power outage for 52hours High-level NES’s resilient environment

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Medical and living environment know-how

We have our own know-how in electrical equipment surrounding the healing environment, such as switchboards, electrical outlets, and backup power supplies.

Since it is a so-called “rice seed”, there are many information that can not be revealed here and information that can not be formalized because it varies depending on the site.

I can understand things that I could not notice when I was an electrical craftsman, and that I do not notice because I am a clinical engineering engineer, I do not notice.

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Ratings and Effectiveness

The “rated power consumption” of electrical appliances is not actually the power consumed.

Simply put, rated power consumption indicates the capacity and potential of electrical appliances.
Please refer to the JIS standard strictly.

  • JISC9801-3 Characteristics and test methods for home electric refrigerators and electric freezers – Part 3: Calculation of power consumption and content product
  • JISC62301 Household Electrical Equipment – Measurement of Standby Power Consumption
  • JISC622623 Power consumption measurement method of personal computer

If you look at the air conditioner in your house from below, you will see that it has a nameplate. Depending on the model, it is attached when you open the front cover.
The following air conditioners are written “Rated Voltage 100V” and “Electrified Power Consumption 0.80kW”.
In the separate frame, it is also written “Power consumption Rated cooling 0.440kW”, “Power consumption Rated heating standard 0.395kW”, and “Power consumption Rated heating low temperature 0.845kW”.


In the case of air conditioners, it is written that the power consumption is different between heating and cooling.
When heating starts to operate on a cold day, it consumes a lot of electricity at low temperature specifications, but after warm days and after the room warms up, it will settle at the same level of power consumption as cooling.

The actual measurement value of this air conditioner is “8.98A” in the “I1” column in the figure below. The voltage is 95.8V, so 95.8V x 8.98A = 0.860kW. It approximates the low temperature specification of 0.845kW.

Screen of power quality analyzer

As I continued to use this air conditioner, the room warmed up, so at another moment it was about 3 to 6A.

When I stopped the operation and measured the standby current, it was about 0.45A. Even if it is left for one year, it will consume 39.4kWh.

There are also large electrical appliances with a swing width.


The above medical equipment is 100V 1.5kVA, so the current of 15A flows in a simple calculation.

I measured it, but the maximum value was 8.6A. It was stable in HD mode, and when the heater was resting, it was about 1.3A.

Some devices labeled “1.5kVA” and “1500W” are probably displayed in the sense that up to 1500W is OK because the wires used in the equipment are used to withstand up to 1500W.

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It should be measured.

I think that all medical equipment used in home medical care should be measured and the power consumption is understood.

In light of the peculiarity of the sanatorium living environment, I think it is good to measure household appliances and cooking appliances.

Even in normal times, if the combination is bad, the breaker will be cut off. In the living space of a healthy person, you can just return the breaker, but in medical care households that use medical equipment, even a life crisis will come.

We use a variety of measuring devices to measure.

Power Quality Analyzers

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Waveform also measured

Some measuring devices can measure the waveform of power.

There are various ways to call it “Line Monitor” and “Power Quality Analyzer”, but it is like an oscilloscope display screen in terms of the part that is visualized.


Whether the waveform is clean or dirty may also affect the performance of electrical appliances.

In the first place, there is a big difference in whether the waveform is a square wave or a sine wave. Generators and storage batteries at a certain price are sold as “sine wave” and “genuine string wave”. In inexpensive car inverters and portable power supplies, rectangular wave products are present.

Since there are products that do not move at all in rectangular waves, products that operate but fail, etc., it should be confirmed that the waveform is a sine wave at a minimum.


[Reference] NES: Power waveform and power supply quality

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Request for measurement

Most medical institutions do not have electrical devices.

If you are an electrical contractor, you may have several types of electrical measuring instruments, so the consultation destination may be an electrical contractor.

However, there is a scary part to ask an electrician who is unfamiliar with medical equipment, and if it is before the start of home medical care, there is no equipment at hand, so I think it is good to contact a medical institution first.

In our company, we are acting on behalf of the measurement.

In cooperation with the medical institution who consulted the measurement, we perform the measurement, deliver the data to the medical institution, and explain the patient based on the data.


Measuring instrument

The following are the measuring instruments we also have. Insulation measuring instruments and clamp testers are what many electrical contractors have.
If you have an electrician, I think that it is possible for a medical institution to have it, so I will post a link of online shopping for price reference.


Insulation measuring instrument (Meger)
It is a device that measures the insulation state.

Leak tester
It is a device that measures the leakage state of the circuit.
There are also Ior compatible devices.
There are also loggers.

Clamp meter (clamp type tester)
The current can be measured by surrounding the wire in the clamp part of the ring.
You can measure the voltage by inserting the probe into the connector in the body.
It is inexpensive because there is no leakage measurement function.

Power Quality Analyzer
It is a measuring instrument for measuring and analyzing the power supply quality.
Even if an error occurs at the moment, it is often necessary to measure it for a long time to capture it, so it is common to have a model with a logger function.
The multi-channel type can leave several types of data at the same time, so it helps to investigate the cause of the abnormality.

Wiring Checker
It is a tool that allows you to check which outlets are connected to which breaker.
Let me tell you with light and sound.

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Portable Power Supply Specification

The fact that the output of the portable power supply is a sine wave is an essential research item, but there are other things to check.

You need to know how much capacity and how long it will correspond.

I think that it is safe to think that the notation “capacity” of the portable power supply refers to the battery capacity if there is no special mention.

A portable power supply with a capacity of 1000Wh (watt hour) cannot be used with the entire 1000Wh drawer.

Many common lithium-ion polymer batteries are 3.7V. The example below is 3.7V x 2,000mAh, so it is 7.4Wh. If there are 135 batteries, it is 1,000Wh.


The equipment that uses this battery directly has no loss, so I think that it can be consumed as indicated.

When changing pressure or DC-AC conversion, there is a loss there, so it is not as indicated.

To convert the direct current to alternating current, use a device called “inverter”. Inverters are required to take an alternating power supply from the battery.
On the other hand, in order to charge from a commercial power supply to the battery, a “converter” is required to convert from alternating current to direct current.

When loss occurs in transforming energy, it can turn into a form of heat or light. In the case of a portable power supply, it is equipped with a fan that releases heat because it is turned into heat.

In other words, the loss of the inverter when switching from direct current to alternating current and the energy to operate the fan are consumed, so even a battery of 1,000Wh does not have a 1,000Wh capacity.


[Reference] Fuji Electric: Inverter and converter
PC Watch: What happens to the portable power supply? I’m scared of myself, so I’ll explain while I’m officially disassembled!
[Reference] Jackery: What is a portable power supply?
[Reference] Jackery: How long can I use a portable power supply? Thorough explanation of the usage time calculation method

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Mobile battery capacity calculation

The storage battery that can be brought to the plane is written “160Wh or less”, but some mobile batteries for smartphones sold on Amazon etc. do not have the notation of “Wh”.

Wh (watt hour) is power (watt) and time (hour), so it is required by either calculating watts by voltage × current and multiplying the time, or multiply the voltage by ampere hour (current / time).


Anker’s Power Bank, which was voted the best-selling album on Amazon, said “10000mAh, 22.5W”. In addition, the output is written as “10V = 2.25A (MAX 22.5W)”.
10,000mAh÷ 2.25A≒4.44hr. Since this 2.25A outputs at the time of 10V, it is 10V × 2.25A × 4.44hr≒100Wh.
However, this number does not take into account the loss of pressure. Since the battery is a lithium polymer, it may be a common 3.7V thing, so when you calculate it is 10,000mAh × 3.7V ≒ 37Wh. I think this is probably right.


When I looked at it with another battery, there were products called 26,800mAh, 99.16Wh. From the formula of 99.16Wh÷26.8Ah=3.7V, it can be seen that this battery is 3.7V.


There is a limit of bringing in aircraft to less than 160Wh, and even if the capacity is smaller than that, there is a limit of up to two pieces, so be careful there as well.

A single mobile battery cannot be checked in in the baggage to be checked in. You must bring it to your room as baggage.

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Portable power supply duration

If you buy a portable power supply with 1,000Wh, let’s calculate how many hours the medical equipment can be used.

With a ventilator of 350W and a vital sign monitor of 50W, we want to keep the medical equipment running at 400W.

If you can use 1,000Wh, you can use 1,000Wh÷400W=2.5h for 2.5 hours.
However, 1,000Wh is the capacity of the battery body, so there is a conversion loss. If it is 20%, it will be 1,000Wh × 0.8 = 800Wh. 800Wh÷400W=2h will support two hours of operation.

There is also a built-in battery of the ventilator, so just because the portable power supply is depleted does not mean that it is immediately a life-threatening.

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Experimental Portable Power Supply

We actually purchase a portable power supply, experiment it, and verify whether it can be used in home health care.

As a budget, it is less than a hundred thousand yen.


EENOUR’s portable power supply sold on Amazon, etc. is around 90K yen with the application of coupons.
This portable power supply has a capacity of 2,048Wh. There is also a description of 640,000mAh, and it is 3.2V when calculated.

The waveform when extracting the exchange is “sine wave”. It can output up to 2400W. I don’t think I’ll use that much capacity in home health care.

I think that the point with the UPS function is suitable for home health care. In normal times, UPS uses a commercial power supply, but when there is a power outage, it automatically supplies power from a portable power supply.

EENOUR Storage Battery P2001PLUS (Smartphone Interlocking Version)
Large capacity 2048Wh/640000mAh
Lithium iron phosphate battery
Smartphone application remote control and remote monitoring
Input power can be adjusted when charging, 1.6 hours fast charging
Maximum 2400W output
Companies such as USB TYPE-C output 100W and DC12V cigar sockets

There are also other portable power supplies that have been tested.

You cannot purchase all models and experiment, but we have a service that evaluates by having someone leave the portable power supply purchased.


[Reference] NES: Power waveform and power supply quality

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The electrician’s intervention.

The portable power supply can be supplied only to devices that can be connected to the outlet (outlet) installed in the main unit.

For example, ceiling lighting fixtures and ventilation fans do not lead to portable power supplies because there are no plugs.

To solve this problem, you need the intervention of the electrician.

The figure below is an example of a direct connection to the power supply in a private house. We opened the cover of the switchboard, connected the wires inside, and supplied the power from the reserve power supply to the house.


We solve some problems by directly connected to the switchboard.

The water heater was not a plug type, but a direct power supply, so it was not available due to a power outage. Since it is a city gas type, the energy source is normal even if there is a power outage, and it was a situation where it was only necessary to have a small amount of electricity to ignit and control.

The water heater started to move directly through the switchboard, but at the same time, power was also supplied to the lighting of the garage. It is a type that lights up automatically when it gets dark, so there was a power outage and a dark house lined up, and the garage was turned on in vain.

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Talk to a professional.

Whether you are starting home health care or have already started, I hope you will think carefully about electrical equipment and power supplies.

As a consumer, I think that electricity is used continuously every day, but I think that there are many people who are not detailed about the equipment and know only the manual part of the response in the event of a power outage.

I don’t think health care workers are anyone else’s business either.

If you receive a contact like the one shown below, how will you respond?


If you are an electrical contractor, you have a number of cards, so I think you can give precise instructions while imagining the situation.
In addition, if you have drawings at hand, I think you can give more appropriate instructions.

How long can a healthcare professional be able to read blueprints and wiring diagrams? If you know what kind of drawings are available, it is easy to tell, you can ask the patient to provide it to the patient.

If you don’t know, it might be a good idea to make friends with an electrician.

There are few electrical construction companies that have an understanding of medical care, so I hope you can contact us.


[Reference] NES: [Breaker return] Leakage / Overload / Short Circuit | Electric contractor explains the video

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Ultra-rare excellence human resources

The title raises the bar too much, but I think there is no doubt that it is a rare character.

I was a first-class electrician in my teens, and I was an electrician until I was twenty-five years old when I graduated from high school.
He has been a medical university student since the age of 26, and at the age of thirty, obtained a clinical engineering technician’s license, and is working at a medical institution.
At this point, I have experience working at both construction sites and medical sites.


Since I did not find any practical work or research that linked medical device safety management and medical equipment, I was researching the simultaneous management of medical equipment and equipment immediately after entering university.
From that flow, we were also conducting research on power outages and power saving.

Since then, he has continued to work in places related to medical equipment and equipment, such as serving as a director of the Japan Society of Health Care and Welfare Equipment Association (currently serving as a director) of the Japan Society of Medical and Welfare Equipment, and winning the Excellent Abstract Award at the Japan Society of Clinical Engineering.

That’s the representative of the company.

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Life and Pro Bono

We provide services that contribute to the optimization of the sanatorium environment.

We believe that home health care, which is in the boundary areas of the medical, industry, and construction industries, should be attended by personnel specializing in the boundary area, and we are developing this service.

We provide a service for sanatorium living environment optimization as a business for a fee.

At the same time, we also conduct “Pro bono” that contributes to society with professional skills and know-how.
We have carried out several pro bonos in the past, including power outage simulations for children in medical care.

If you have any problems, please feel free to contact us.

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Lectures, committee members, advisory board, and reception.

Please give me a related lecture.

We have received high praise for more than 150th experience on stage.

We will give a lecture by adjusting the time according to the content you requested.

The lecture fee is used to fund pro bono, but we also accept consultations that you would like to request the lecture itself as a pro bono.


Let us help you produce guidebooks and flyers for home health care.
Please help the crisis management office and disaster response headquarters of the local government.
Please be a member of the expert meeting, the review meeting, etc., and the advisor.

The company is focusing on social contribution projects.

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In conclusion

In this article, I focused on the electrical equipment of home health care and talked about disaster mitigation.

Of course, there are parts that can be recognized because they are in the field, but there may be parts that can be noticed because they are in the field, but if you can think so, I wrote that I thought that I would listen to the opinions of professionals and proceed to the optimization of the sanatorium living environment.

In fact, there may be specialists in medical care, electrical workers who are familiar with electrical work, patients are familiar with the life of patients, and patients are familiar with family carers, and there may be no experts who can cover everything.

I hope that you can form a team and aim for the safety and comfort of the patient.

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