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University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust is one of the largest teaching hospital Trusts in the UK. Heartlands Hospital is looking for an experienced engineer to join the team providing assistance across the site in all departments.

Closing date is 3 December.

Band 6 Heartlands Hospital Birmingham

Looks like a material problem.Perhaps it's similar to an old charging cable for Apple phones,The material used is environmentally friendly, which results in bending fatigue not meeting the requirements and eventually leading to fracture.

Sometimes you want to be environmentally friendly and have a long life, which is contradictory. You can only choose one. Perhaps compromise is the only solution.

what is the serial number?

However, I am not sure if you'll be able to set the hospital name with that program. You'll probably need the BD Alaris Plus Editor and the Alaris Plus Transfer Tool.

By the way, if anyone has those programs, I need them for my experimental setup and don't have access to them. If someone could share them, I'd really appreciate it. Thanks!

I can only offer the service manual if that helps.

Plz i need service manual
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I notice that the link offered above no longer works.

However, this one contains much "food for thought" for the student of biomed maintenance!

In simple terms, I think we might say that Evidence-Based PM (EPM) goes beyond Risk-Based PM (RPM) by using KPIs (Key Performance Indicators) to measure maintenance performance. As usual there is preparatory work to be slogged through ... this time it involves deciding upon what KPIs to apply (the document cited gives twenty examples) plus (of course) a set of failure codes (again, the document offers a few).

There seems to have been a progression (evolution) something like:- PPM -> RPM (maybe RCM, AEM) -> EPM. Where will it all end? Anyway, it seems to me that, whichever regime is being followed, it all boils down to maintaining meaningful records whilst carrying out PM work. If the details are there, analysis, useful for "tweaking" the system, can follow (later, if need be).

Has anyone had a go with EPM yet, I wonder?

Anyway, best download the .pdf before it disappears.

Also, here is a cleaner link to the one given at Neil's original post. The AAMI link at post #73938 and the ones in the post above no longer work.

VT650 frequently experiences respiratory ratio display errors(I:E).
Sometimes it may not trigger,Need to manually adjust the threshold,Only then will it turn green normally and trigger.

This is a problem encountered in practical use,FlukeBiomedical does not have a complete solution, and the official response is that it will be resolved through firmware upgrade, but it has not been perfected yet

I once did some work where the biomeds had no PM schedule worthy of the name (in fact, thinking back, many were like that) ... but simply relied upon user departments to check the dated stickers and alert the techs when maintenance was due. There may be arguments to support that idea (eg:- making the users take responsibility for their equipment).

Trouble was that when a keen Head Nurse finally got around to checking her department's kit ... we would be suddenly overwhelmed with a load of (over-due) PMs. One time they even brought a whole department's worth of infusion pumps into the workshop for "immediate action".

The moral of the story? Unless the PM schedule is crafted with care, there may be days on the schedule that indicate hours of PM work way beyond the daily man-hours available in the biomed shop. Also, what if the actual due date falls on a weekend, holiday or whatever? PM cannot always be completed per schedule ("on the day"); so, there has to be some degree of flexibility.

As I keep banging on about, properly conducted Risk-Based PM takes care of all this. In short, the work should be carried out in consideration of priority. For instance, it may not really matter if some low-risk items never gets PM'd at all (but simply left at a "repair when failed" status). "Leeway" beyond the due PM date for more important items could (should) depend upon the priority assigned to each.

But even with a well balanced schedule (that is, with planned workload evenly spread across the calendar) there is bound to be slippage from time to time. This could be due to problems such as loss of available man-power or some other "unforeseen circumstance" that screws up the schedule.

Anyway ... who makes the rules?

Hi,

I need the service manual for MIPM Tesla Guard. Someone can help me?

Thanks

This is a Nevada 454a ESU analyzer REM/ARM test module,Is anyone still using it?

If you are still using it, please contact me, thanks

Good evening,

I' m looking for a Service manuale Top Con 3D OCT 200.


You can send :

nicorica@libero.it

Thank you

Might be worth giving Walters Medical an ask?
https://www.waltersmedical.co.uk/

"Thank you! Yes, I have that manual, but I needed information about the air pump. Thanks again.

My company is looking to develop some software for communicating with a PIIC iX in order to extract live vital signs data.

But getting access to a PIIC iX is difficult. It’s hard to find a clinical collaborator that is willing (or, actually, who’s IT and Biomed department are willing) to grant us access at their hospital.

We have tons of Philips patient monitors in our company lab. But they aren’t networked to a PIIC iX.

Anyone know if there is some kind of low-cost eval version of PIIC iX? Or some kind of online sandbox? Or some old used hardware/software we can purchase?

I’m struggling to see how we can achieve this, other than getting a research grant and a clinical collaborator.

Hi All,
would anyone have a copy of the Eschamnn T series sofware lying around as I need to recalibrate the break motors on a T20 M+? Have tried Steris but they seem to be running the whole Eschmann table portfolio down and there is no tech training available.
Best regards to all
Ed
Southwest Medical Ltd

Carla, buongiorno.
We don't use neither DETT nor VS Capture, have you tried their forum for support ??

Geoff. I'm sure you have space in your man cave for a couple !!