What else can biomedical equipment techs look for to help identify problems early?
Kollitz: For TEE probes, perform electrical leakage testing between each procedure. That will help identify if there are any small holes or violations of the original manufacturer’s product that may allow fluid to enter or other damage to occur. Also perform a visual inspection of the products between every movement, and look for any sort of cracks, holes, or other various failures that need to be repaired. 24×7: MEDRAD offers 100% repair capabilities on quite a few probes. What goes into servicing these? What’s the process like? Kollitz: There’s a tremendous amount of research and development, and a big investment made to enable that capability. Basically, when a probe fails, we bring it in-house and we send out a loaner. Then, we take that probe through a very detailed evaluation and diagnosis process looking at multiple parameters over a nine-station process. From there, we generate a very thorough, comprehensive evaluation, which is presented to the customer. The evaluation details
