How to carry out effective medical equipment management

1, equipment attributes Equipment attributes refer to the purpose for which the equipment is to be used and can be categorized into the following seven areas, while giving a risk experience score. (See Table 1.) How to manage medical devices effectively

2. Physical risk Physical risk refers to the results that can occur if a device fails and is categorized into six areas. (See Table 2) How to carry out effective medical equipment management

3, equipment characteristics Equipment characteristics mainly refers to the electrical characteristics of the equipment, such as electronic equipment, mechanical equipment, there are moving parts, there are components that need to be replaced on a regular basis, there is a systematic correlation between the shutdown, the need for regular cleaning and other characteristics of the same piece of equipment can be more than one choice, each selected one to increase 2 points, up to a maximum of 12 points, such as the obvious If there is obvious intervention by the user, then 2 points should be deducted from the total points.

4. Safety measures Safety measures refer to the design of the safety protection and alarm functions of the medical equipment, including nine items: patient condition alarm, fault alarm, audible and visual alarm, fault code display, continuous follow-up test, mechanical safety protection, continuous operation warning, power-on self-test and manual self-test, each missing item accumulates 1 point, up to a maximum of 9 points.

5, lethal state The lethal state refers to whether the death that may be caused by equipment failure is direct or indirect. If it is direct 5 points; indirect 3 points; does not occur for 0 points.