Hospital equipment repair and Maintenance for Hospital administration pupil

1. Hospital Equipment Repair
and Maintenance
Submitted by,
Jacquiline Dsouza

2. DEFINITION :
• Maintenance is a combination of actions carried
out to retain an item or restore it to an acceptance
condition.It also ensures equipment
reliability,productivity,efficiency and safety.

3. OBJECTIVES :
• Maximum availability,reliability of equipment.
• Extend useful life of equipment.
• Readiness for emergency use.
• Safety of operations.
• Reduced downtime.
• Prevention of wastage of consumables,spares
• Maximize ROI.

4. LEVELS OF MAINTENANCE:
• FIRST -by Operator
• SECOND -by in-house staff
• THIRD -by manufacturers, professional repairer
,organizational, biomedical engineer, workshop.

5. TYPES OF MAINTENANCE
• Preventive maintenance
• Breakdown or corrective maintenance
PREVENTIVE MAINTENANCE:
This isthe maintenance carried out at predetermined
intervals or according to prescribed criteria and
intended to reduce the probability of failure of
functioning of an item.

6. Advantages of preventive
maintenance :
• Reduction in downtime of equipment.
• Safety of equipment.
• Effective and Economic functioning.
• Increased life of the equipment
SCHEDULED MAINTENANCE:
The preventive maintenance carried out in
accordance with an established time schedule is
called scheduled maintenance.It may be
weekly,monthly ,quarterly, six months or a year
schedule.

7. BREAKDOWN MAINTENANCE
• This is the maintenance carried out after fault
recognition and is intended to let an equipment
into a state in which it can perform a required
function.
>MAINTENANCE SERVICES:
There is a need to have basic in house facilities for
the routine repairs of common equipment.It may
not be working for want of simple repairs.
Ex : Faulty switches.

8. MASTER MAINTENANCE PLAN
• This is maintenance organized and carried out
comprehensively, effectively to a predetermined
plan. Preventive and corrective maintenance should
be a part of master maintenance plan.
PREREQUISITES FOR EFFECTIVE PLAN:
1.Skilled manpower
2.Regular training
3.Establishing bank of spare parts
4.Establishing detailed records.

9. Cont'd....
5.Monitoring of Annual Maintenance Contract (AMC)
6.Follow up of maintenance and repair services.
CONCLUSION:
It is axiomatic that an ounce of prevention is worth a
pound of cure. Planned maintenance of medical
equipment is an essential requisite for optimising the
multifaceted operational and administrative aspects.

10. AN EFFECTIVE EQUIPMENT
MAINTENANCE PLAN ,
>SAVES LIVES
>CONTAINS COSTS
>ENSURES PATIENT
And
STAFF SATISFACTION.

11. THANK YOU