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Hi, Do any of you currently use the Panda rescuscitaire in your hospital? The nursing staff seem to like it, so I was looking for some feedback on the reliability of the equipment and how easy it is to maintain, change heater etc.

Any comments good or bad would be welcomed. Thanks

Had 8 units for over a year now and no problems reported.

How do your "standardization filters" get on with the word resuscitaire, I wonder, Neil?

Resuscitaire, Rescusitaire or Rescucitaire if you mean the spelling, we have gone through the inventory in Excel format and checked all the spelling mistakes. For new equipment we check previous entries i.e. Monitor, Vital Signs, Vital Signs Monitor or Dynamap (Still used, but not here) all the vital signs monitors are named as Vital signs monitor. When creating protocols in the test equipment it is essential that the spelling is correct and the description pertains to that protocol otherwise equipment will be missed. Just enter the asset number into the test equipment and the protocol (PPM) is ready to go, could not be simpler.

Slightly off topic, sorry about that but it relates to Geoff's question. There was a time when I was thinking about using the 'ECRI' names for the inventory, but to a nurse it is still a bed no matter what ward they are working in, a monitor is still a monitor despite it's configuration. I know they call vital signs monitors dynamaps but as that is a manufacturer we cannot use it as we have to distinguish between models and manufacturers. So to keep everything simple the descriptions remain simple.

Thanks Neil, that's good to know.

No, not the spelling, Neil ... I was getting at the point about resuscitaire having become a "generic" equipment "description" for Neonatal Resuscitation Unit (or what-have-you), when it started off as a model name used by Vickers Medical, and now it seems registered by Dräger.

You know, along the lines of Bovie for Electrosurgical Unit and, of course, Dinamap for NIBP Monitor.

Yes ... the ECRI descriptions (and others from similar organizations) are rubbish ... that is, correct in descriptive terms, but cumbersome for ordinary use.

I too have looked into this stuff a few times over the years. By far the simplest method (in computer terms, that is) is to establish simple codes that identify each equipment type in order to correctly point to PM (and all the rest), although it is also possible to develop and use parsing routines to correctly extract equipment types from manufacturer-model string combinations - just as long as these are correctly entered in the first place - so yes, back to square one! So unless elaborate programming routines (with look-up tables, for example) are used, accuracy is hard to achieve. It is far better to trap these "errors" at the data entry stage.

But yes, there is nothing much wrong in having the computer pick out not only equipment type, but individual examples, by using the Asset Number (or, if you like, the unique equipment Control Number).

Sorry for being off-topic here, Papajo ... but I believe this to be an important issue, well worth (another) airing.

Geoff, we have infant warmers, infant intensive care units, radiant warmers, that is how we separate them.

Infant Warmers - and Radiant Warmers? Not the same thing, then?

Either way, never confused with "Bili-Lites", of course! Ha, ha.

We could call what we taking about here as the "short-form description" (or, if you like, line-item description - or even "popular description").

But when it comes to classifying the kit - for purposes of planning for tech support, PM and all the rest - well, that's a whole new ball game (and best left to another thread).