I agree to a certain extent but if a vending machine fails, I doubt it would harm anyone. Although the coffee and tea those machines dispense is more likley to cause you harm!
Kit is kit, but when it's attached to a patient it carries far greater risks and consequences if it goes wrong.Therfore a far greater level of responsibility, with that should come greater renumeration.
After all thats why we pay our Docs and Diretors large salaries, becuase of the responsibility thats comes with the position.
Would you be happy to have the 'vending machine guy' without any formal electronic/technical qualification popping in to ICU to service the Vents?
Dom
