Repair and Maintenance of Medical Devices: Basic Clinical Equipment

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The healthcare professionals are largely dependent on Medical Equipment for Diagnosing as well as treatment of an illness. After the treatment the equipment are also used for rehabilitation of the patient. There has been a number of developments related to Medical Devices. The Medical Devices Rules 2017 is in place and all the Medical Equipment will be regulated by Ministry of Health. The Patient Safety framework has been notified and it will now be mandatory to get the calibration and maintenance of the medical devices done as per requirement and maintain the records. It will also be mandatory to get the devices repaired by professionals who have acquired the skills as per the National Operating Standards (NOS) of Health Sector Skill council. Also in place is Materiovigilance Program of India which requires adverse event reporting of Medical Devices to be reported on a voluntary basis which will be made mandatory in due course of time. It was observed that many equipment in hospitals and health centres are either unused or there is no maintenance resulting wastage of resources. To address this, Ministry of Health has issued Comprehensive guidelines along with RFP on Biomedical Equipment Management and Maintenance Program (BMMP) in the month of February 2015. Subsequent to inventory mapping, RFP/tenders are to be rolled out to award maintenance contract. Support in being provided to state governments under NHM. The program aims to ensure maintenance of medical devices in the public health facilities up-to the level of District Hospital, to enable delivery of good quality of diagnosis and therapeutic care. This book is meant to help young engineers who wish to employed or are working as Medical Equipment Technician to calibrate, repair and do the preventive maintenance support to the hospital and to the equipment they are working. The book is divided into four Modules as Module-1-Basics of Healthcare and Medical Devices; MODULE-2-Installation and Maintenance of Medical Devices ; MODULE-3- Calibration, Fault Finding & Repairs of common medical equipment.; Module-4- Training, Assessment, Documentation and Database ManagementThe book covers the requirement for National Operating Standards of Health Sector Skill Council.

ASIN ‏ : ‎ B07Y31722T
Language ‏ : ‎ English
File size ‏ : ‎ 13835 KB
Simultaneous device usage ‏ : ‎ Unlimited
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