CCUs have much of the same equipment as general ICUs, in addition to a few more cardiac-centered devices. When BMET Steve Erdosy, technical site leader, clinical engineering, Indiana Hospital Community Health Network, Indianapolis, has to troubleshoot something in the hospital’s cardiac intensive care unit, also known as the CCU or CICU, he keeps in mind […]
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Once you work out the bugs, both technically and literally, a commitment to home medical equipment repair can save money and improve patient care
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With an expansive in-house program, Mercy’s team is always willing to take on more, consistently increasing its value to the health care institutions it serves
Read MoreBMETs and CEs have enough to keep up with these days, but it seems the IT issue keeps coming up in various discussions. I received an e-mail from Paul McNamara of St Mary’s Hospital in Green Bay, Wis, who wrote abo
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L-R: David Harrington, PhD, and Sam Downing, CEO, Salinas Valley Memorial Healthcare System, Salinas, Calif, mount a monitor. L-R: Nurse Dottie Harrington and Ray Schmitt, Assist International, set up a Philips bedside monitor in the emergency room. During a biomedical mission trip to India in 1992, David Harrington, PhD, a health care consultant from Medway, […]
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