thers ty meane of 3.3.3 Ducts In group 2 medical locations the ducts installed inside the room must be purposed excl the power supply of the electrical devices and their accessories present in the same room; in practice, ducts that supply power to equipment located in other rooms cannot pass through these group 2 medical locations. y for The clrcults branching from a medical IT system ‘must necessarily be separated trom the electrical circuits powered by other systems, and must, therefore, be installed in separate pipingor ducts and boxes. The use of shared ducts and koxes is also allowed provided that the separation is im- plemented with an insulating separator (fig. 3.13). The circuits of the Medical iT system can also be implemented using unipolar cables (cords) of the type NO7V-K (with the warning not to use navy, blue or ight blue conductors, since amedical IT system never has Neutral). If it is impossible to implement a physical separa- ton of two electrical systems, and the Medical IT circuit runs through a duct "shared" with the con- ductors of another system, double insulation ca~ bles with a non-metallic sheath must be used. Inaddition, if the leakage current is due toa ca- pacitive effect, it is recommended that the pro- tection conductor be separated from the phase conductors and then inserted in its own protec tive tube, In group 2 medical locations where electromedi- ‘cal devices are used in order to monitor and sup- port vital parameters, such as those of intensive ‘care, resuscitation and similar, the devices should bbe powered using conductors that are shielded or inserted in metallic piping asa precaution against ‘lectrical fields, Both the shieldings of the cables. {as well as the metal piping must be equipoten- tialised on the nearest node or sub-node. For radiology and CAT rooms and rooms with ‘equipment that emits ionising radiation, the power supply conductors shauld nat intarrupt tha radiation shieldings present. ‘The protection of the ducts against overcurrents must be implemented using omnipolar automatic, miniature circuit breakers, Also in Medical T sys- tems, the circuits branched to the secondary must be protected with fuses or thermomagnetic automatic miniature circuit breakers, but not with RCDs because the RCD would not be effective in this particular “medical insulation” system.