Preventive Maintain of Ventilators and its Cost Consideration

Authors

  • Dr. Ravinder Ahlawat

  • Dr. Amit Lathwal

  • Dr. Kanika Jain

  • Dr. Sidhartha Satpathy

Keywords:

breakdown maintenance, repair to cost ratio, critical equipment, medical equipment, preventive maintenance

Abstract

Background Maintenance is the core function of biomedical engineering and is essential for the optimum functioning of equipment This study was undertaken to understand the current maintenance practices of ventilator and its cost implications from administrative point of view Methodology 179 Ventilators supplied and installed by one vendor in different wards of the hospital were studied It was a retrospective descriptive study Equipment related data was taken from various service reports This data was used to calculate spares failure and their costs implication Results A total of 692 maintenance visits were undertaken for 179 ventilators of 5 different modals over 27 months by 6 Bio- Medical Engineers BME The mean number of spare changed throughout the study was 2 73 The uptime was within satisfactory limits The yearly repair to cost ratio was 3 50 The cost of spare changed was a factor of modal under consideration and the status of equipment concerning its coverage under maintenance contact Conclusion The findings of the study should enable researchers in the future to formulate an effective equipment maintenance policy for the hospital

How to Cite

Dr. Ravinder Ahlawat, Dr. Amit Lathwal, Dr. Kanika Jain, & Dr. Sidhartha Satpathy. (2019). Preventive Maintain of Ventilators and its Cost Consideration. Global Journal of Human-Social Science, 19(H7), 21–25. Retrieved from https://socialscienceresearch.org/index.php/GJHSS/article/view/2990

Preventive Maintain of Ventilators and its Cost Consideration

Published

2019-05-15