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E Q U I P M E N T
R E P A I R
CLOSED FOR REPAIRS Most facility managers will only send broken equipment to the
original manufacturer to be fixed if their biomed company can't handle the repair or if
equipment came with a repair contract as part of the lease.
Your Equipment's Down
— Now What?
Readers share their best tips to get your
equipment working again quickly and reliably.
Dan O'Connor | Editor-in-Chief
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ou have 3 options when a piece of OR equipment breaks down
and is in need of repair: Send it to the original equipment manufacturer, send it to a third-party repair facility or, if you're fortunate to have one, call your in-house biomedical staff. Two-thirds
(66.7%) of the 40 surgical facility leaders we surveyed use some combination of all 3 options. "Cost and quality are always factors when deciding who repairs what," says Deborah Henning, RN, BSN, CNOR, director of surgical services at J.C. Blair Memorial Hospital in Huntingdon,
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