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Loss Prevention in the ORs

Does anyone have any ideas or protocols for reducing loss of equipment in the ORs?

Background: Medium sized academic center with Attendings, CRNAs, SRNAs, Residents, Locums attendings and CRNAS. We have been dealing with attrition of our handheld Video Laryngoscopes.

What do you do at your institution?

What are things that have worked?

Things we have considered: Tracking like narcotics in our omnicells, assigning 1 per provider and having to buy another if you lose it.

Edit: We think our initial loss was likely due to improper training/handling - likely lost a fair amount to remote locations/trash.

However since then we have had steady continued loss - and potentially an uptick right before resident graduation.

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u/kpbasketball93 — 3 days ago
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Condo EV Charging Load Management Question

Location: Chicago Mid-rise Condo building - 10 units with detached garages in the alley. The garages are separated by cinderblock walls.

Image of the layout: https://postimg.cc/HV4MsdQ0

Each 2 set of parking spots is a garage - with shared cinderblock wall. P7, 8, 9 share a weird corner 3 car garage.

Story: Neighbor and I are currently sharing a 15A circuit for Level 1 charging and need to alternate days (if we charge at the same time it trips the circuit). We also currently pay our HOA based upon usage, since the garage 15A 120V circuits is on the buildings meter/panel.

We are looking to run Level 2 charging for our garage and have received multiple quotes.

  • We plan to each run a separate line from our own meters
  • We want an option than allows others in the building to add their own lines as needed

Our HOA is concerned about future EV needs (currently just us 2 out of 10 possible) and its effect on overall power draw of the building. (We do plan to get a load assessment done prior to install) - but that would only account for adding our 2 chargers and not any additional changes.

We looked into Load Management Systems built into EVSE that communicate between each other - but need further information from first hand experience.

-Tesla Universal Charger Per their website (https://www.tesla.com/support/charging/wall-connector/power-management)

  • Up to 6 units - (doesn't get us to our potential 10 - but should be good enough for now)

  • Line of sight recommended- has anyone tested the distance or ability to go through cinderblocks?

  • If disconnected from their network max output temporarily changed to 6A - I am worried this could happen frequently due to the weak signal strength through the cinderblock - is there any way to change this?

-Wall Box

  • their website doesnt have alot of information regarding distance/line of sight and networking across multiple meters - does anyone have any insight on this?

Any further input/advice would be helpful

u/kpbasketball93 — 3 months ago