EBME Forums Forums Management Medical Equipment Management Best practice of working on contaminated equip

Yep Geoff, good points and helpful tips please take note. When the whole hospital is under stress make sure you remain calm.

I have already seen so many hospital staff overwhelmed even before the storm has arrived. Inside every ward where covid-19 patients are located should be a station which will have PPE gear.

There is also a technique and method of wearing the PPE and it is worth knowing how should you wear and dispose off the PPE. Your hospital infection control team will be able to go through with you, ensure you familiar with it. Preparation is the key.....

"If you can keep your head when all about you
Are losing theirs and blaming it on you ..."*

PPE? Piff ... just continue smoking your pipe when striding around the wards (I recommend Ogden's St.Bruno)!

* © Rudyard Kipling

Mafi Hubbly bubbly.. Hannis,

Just a thought If someone was vaping and had corvid-19....could it be transmitted?

Good point ... droplets!

I'll fire off an email to Dom and Boris straight away ... in fact, whilst we're at it, why not take the opportunity to ban smoking in all its forms (forever)?

The other point to be careful is to bring kit back to workshop to fix, not only would that have to be corna free but any tools used must be maliciously clean. ideally you should have a designated corvid work space?

Morning everyone....

Just to let you know, any field engineers coming into hospitals to service or repair gear don't expect the poor old NHS to provide you with PPE (personal protective gear).

I know from the frontline the NHS does not have enough PPE for their own the Doctors and Nurses...and cleaners.

The onus would lie with the Company you represent!

Surely any machines would have been cleaned (disinfected) and moved to a safe (quiet) area anyway before letting a service engineer loose on them ... wouldn't they?

And what about all the "volunteers" currently being called for ... are they expected to fend for themselves, as well?

Some kit is mounted on pendants, secured so don't expect nurses to scrub the equipment and remove it !!

The service engineer would have to go in to do it unless it is serviced in house.

It rather depends what "it" (as in "do it") is.

Anyway, I'm not going to argue ... if I was the "service engineer" I would assess the situation (and then act accordingly) when I arrived at site - especially if I had been "called in" by the hospital (rather than just a routine PM-type visit).

Are you writing policy, or advising others? You need to remember Health and Safety at Work, Risk Assessment, Duty of Care ... and so forth.

Most Companies have stopped routine PPM's at the moment only breakdowns