Case study reveals preventable causes of diagnostic equipment failure, indicating an urgent need for predictive maintenance and trained technical personnel.
Diagnostic medical equipment are medical equipment that aid in the observation of various aspects of a patient’s health condition. These devices help to form the basis for diagnosis and is therefore critical for this equipment to be efficiently maintained to ensure accurate and reliable output. In this study, we investigated the maintenance culture of diagnostic medical equipment and relate the findings to indices to find the exact causes of equipment failures. In the case study the sphygmomanometer was used. Our results have shown the following: (i) that most failures are due to preventable causes (ii) inadequate medical equipment technicians and engineers, (iii) Data deficiencies and (iv) lack of predictive maintenance.
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