Biomedical Equipment Preventive Maintenance

clutch

3 years ago

“Prevention is better than cure“-We all know the importance of this quote.We would like to apply the same quote for biomedical equipment in hospitals too.

Although we may have a warranty, AMC & CMC,etc ...

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Preventive maintenance(PM) plays an important role in keeping the equipment alive and work-efficiently. In this article, we would discuss about the factors to be understood in equipment preventive maintenance.

When to do it?

The question which we hear often is what’s the average time interval between PM scheduling.Usually preventive maintenance can be done six months once (yearly twice) however, we would suggest to do preventive maintenance FOUR months once (Yearly thrice) to ensure better equipment’s efficiency.

How to do it?

The PM can be done by professional biomedical engineers. The following general points can be applied during every PM for any equipments at hospitals.

Try avoiding encouraging technicians to do PM for equipments which can lead to more problems.

Points to remember during PM

The biomedical engineer must be aware about the equipment’s status before planning for PM. Sometimes even a PM can cause damage to the equipment if the person is not sure of the equipment’s status & condition. In addition, special care has to be given especially to the older equipments as the fragility is more. Finally provide a checklist to the particular user(s) for all the equipments for reference.

Although we do preventive maintenance every four months once, ” it’s very important that the staff be adequately trained enough to handle the equipments “. Hence it’s the biomedical engineer’s responsibility to conduct trainings periodically to ensure smooth equipment handling by the staff and also implement an equipment handover register in all the possible areas such as wards, casualty, ICU, and OT.

This when done by trained engineers on a regular basis will play an important role in preventing breakdowns and hence direct and indirect cost saving.