Everything New Mexico Biomedical Services publishes on biomedical equipment maintenance in one place: the full service overview, the related services we provide, and the locations we cover.
This is the index for biomedical equipment maintenance. If you already know which service you need, go straight to it below; if not, the full overview explains what each one covers.
Maintenance is the ongoing relationship rather than the one-off visit: scheduled attention, records that accumulate, and a technician who knows the history of the specific device in front of them.
Work is performed to manufacturer specification and the applicable regulatory standard, and the record says which one was applied.
The maintenance record is an asset in its own right. It informs the replacement decision, supports the capital request, and answers the inspector's question without a search.
Deferred maintenance is a loan with a high interest rate. The work does not disappear; it reappears as a failure at a worse moment.
Every visit produces documentation an inspector can read without a translator: what was done, to what standard, by whom, and when it is next due.
Technicians are qualified for the equipment they touch, and the qualification is on file rather than asserted.
Findings are reported plainly, including the ones that mean a device should be taken out of service.
Deferred maintenance is a loan with a high interest rate. The work does not disappear; it reappears as a failure at a worse moment.
Scope is written down before the work begins, including what is excluded. Most disputes about equipment service are really disputes about scope that nobody put in writing.
Service records are read at the worst possible moment - after an incident, during an accreditation survey, in discovery. That is the audience they should be written for, which means legible, specific and dated rather than signed off in bulk.
If you are not sure which of these pages applies to your equipment, describe the situation and a technician will tell you what the work actually requires rather than what the largest quote would cover.
Current developments in biomedical equipment maintenance, with sources for further reading.
