This whole area really needs to be gripped by the end user, all items that have patient applied parts need to to be tested to IEC 60601, as we all know, and this is generally supported by the safety blurb in the user manual.
Personal experience of this, in the MOD, some clinicians task their practice managers to buy medical equipment from a separate budget, bypassing the proper procurement route, now when I pitch up at a practice to do annual safety checks, I find unfamiliar medical equipment, I'm instructed by my engineering authority to not even touch the locally purchased items. I instruct the practice manager that I cannot electrically test them, the answer is then oh I'll get my building service contractors to pat test. When I inform them that the pat tester used by a sparky does not comply with regulation for medical items I am met with blank looks. This problem is rife across my region, clinicians need to be made aware of this very staid by possibly litigious situation
