Life-Support Policy
APC Three-Phase Systems
American Power Conversion Corporation (APC) and its affiliates and subsidiaries worldwide do not recommend the use of any of their products in life-support applications where failure or malfunction of the APC product can be reasonably expected to cause failure of the life-support device or to significantly affect its safety or effectiveness. APC does not permit the use of any of its products in direct patient care. APC will not knowingly sell its products for use in such applications unless the life-support system or direct patient care device is part of a whole facility/building into which the UPS is integrated, and unless APC receives, in writing, assurances satisfactory to APC that:
a.The UPS system will be configured in a manner that will provide N+1 power redundancy to the critical load,
b.The end-user customer assumes all risks and signs the APC System Configuration and Use Form, and
c.The customer and operators of the APC UPS system agree to indemnify and hold APC and its affiliates and subsidiaries harmless for any and all claims arising out of the systems use in such applications.
The term life-support device includes but is not limited to neonatal oxygen analyzers, nerve stimulators (whether used for anesthesia, pain relief, or other purposes), autotransfusion devices, blood pumps, defibrillators, arrhythmia detectors and alarms, pacemakers, hemodialysis systems, peritoneal dialysis systems, neonatal ventilator incubators, ventilators (for adults and infants), anesthesia ventilators, infusion pumps, and any other devices designated as “critical” by the
Hospital-grade wiring devices and leakage current protection may be ordered as options on many APC UPS systems. APC does not claim that units with these modifications are certified or listed as hospital-grade by APC or any other organization. Therefore these units do not meet the requirements for use in direct patient care.
