It is a hospital's nightmare: The power goes out and backup generators don't kick in, leaving critically ill patients without the mechanical help they need to breathe. It happened in New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina, when hospital staff were on their own when electricity and water cut out. Some died. It happened last year in San
Why Do Hospital Generators Keep Failing?
Medical workers assist a patient into an ambulance during an evacuation of New York University Tisch Hospital, after its backup generator failed when the power was knocked out by a superstorm, Monday, Oct. 29, 2012, in New York. (AP Photo/John Minchillo) It is a hospital’s nightmare: The power goes out and backup generators don’t kick […]