EBME Forums Forums Maintenance Technical Assistance Baby Leo incubator doors

Morning Guys and girls, i hope you are all well. Quick question, is anyone having issues with the above and doors just "falling off". Im pretty certain that ours are being broken due to some staff having the touch of the mighty Joe Young but they say not so i said ill ask my colleagues to see if they are having issues. Have a lovely day all.

I would consider looking at the surrounding furniture and procedure trolleys. Chances are the device has been raised up by either staff or parent and then lowered back down with the doors opened and they've caught the edge of something. Of course it will be handed over from the night shift and nobody saw anything.......

Absolutely that buddy, OR...dropped the whole side panel down with the doors open we thought? They've managed to have at least 6 "magically just fall off" in the last month. Not great at circa £400 a pop

I often go in and work with the teams to look at the ergonomics of the area. Sometimes this is easy and the staff come on board, sometimes they hate me. But once you start ordering parts on their cost codes they take a different view..... Another thing you could consider is getting somebody to sign off a document for you to switch the height adjustment off in the options as a prevention. Or to put them on very expensive contracts..... Bets of luck.

Yes; that's the way. Does anyone else remember the Zero-Budget Department?

??? Yep, im experiencing that in droves. we cross charge for anything damaged or lost. Its quite funny when someone pops down and says....we need 5 neonatal pulse oximeter probes as there are none on the ward. I get my little cross charge sheet out and usually hear "oh!! we have to pay for them? ill go and have another look" And THAT is usually the last we hear of it ??

Yes I have a list of Cost Codes of all departments throughout the hospital pinned to the wall beside my PC. Any damaged or lost accessories gets ordered and replaced by ourselves, but yes it does certainly focus the attention of the Department manager when they are advised they will be meeting the cost. Latest couple were bladderscanner probes which had been dropped and now cracked and leaking oil, operating tables similiar to the incubators which had been misaligned due to raising or lowering catching the edge of something. These repairs run to thousands. At the end of the day its taxpayers that are paying for it but it does severely dent the department managers budget for the year.

Another good way of overcoming this is by explaining to the users how you can get it repaired and back in service that day. Take an audit of how many times you ordered the same part over the previous year and ask for an up front payment for the same number of parts. That way they'll be saving money by avoiding the inevitable inflation added price the following year. The user/budget holder will then argue that they will save money by not breaking it and the penny often drops. Like i said before, identify the problem and pray the ward manager sees it the same way as you and provide a solution or try and remove the problem.

I once carried a decommissioned device to a problem area and purposely dropped it. The staff looked at me and asked how much that would cost to fix. I responded by saying that it didn't matter as it will always get fixed as the tax payer picks up the bill no matter how many times it gets dropped. I then explained that we could repair three times and it would cost more than purchasing a new one with a two year warranty with better features. The staff said it was daft to keep repairing it then. I then pointed out why do staff then repeatedly break things and nobody ever sees it happening. Doing it this way made the staff question damage and costs and they instigated this. If i went and voluntarily explained it they would never have listened. As my old mentor taught me, don't work hard, work smart.