Clinical Engineering
An asset number that uniquely identifies the medical device that your organization has purchased.
What is the CTS number (or tag number)?
If my date says last year, it may spark a little fear.
What is the PM tag/sticker?
Medical image using an oversized magnet.
What is an MRI?
Type of Sani Wipes used to clean Plum 360 Infusion Pumps.
What are bleach wipes?
The company every used car salesman would love.
What is Nihon Kohden?
The type of equipment that is used to validate the calibration of a medical device.
What is test equipment?
In your kitchen I mix drinks, in the patient room I regulate oxygen.
What is a blender?
A form of money that will be useless after taking it into the magnet room.
What is a credit/debit card?
Whether being used on a patient, a nurse waiting for an order to be filled, or ECD and Central Supply searching for them, we are fed up when it comes to this device.
What is a feeding pump?
The system going from 4 to 5...light me up!
What is Responder Net?
We do precision guess work based on unreliable data provided by those of questionable knowledge.
Who are BioMedical Equipment Technicians?
The one model of this type of equipment sounds like it has 60 cylinders.
What is a bipap?
A medical imaging device based on X-ray technology primarily used for fluoroscopy capabilities.
What is a C-Arm machine?
This department distributes most of the equipment that ECD cleans.
What is Central Supply Services?
If "Neon Coding" ain't acting right, you may get a call from Kathie S. about an issue concerning this...
What is central telemetry?
I must be unique and if copied I will cause communication issues.
What is an IP address?
The BioMed Lead is "Jefe", the Manager is "Jefe Grande", and the Director is...
Who is "Jefe Gigante"?
We have one in our department and Johnny has one at home.
Who is Jody?
A green isolation sign indicates this kind of precaution.
What is airborne precaution?
Number of weeks it took to install the monitoring system in the ICUs.
What is 5 weeks?
Enables and empowers health care organizations around the world to build a foundation for quality care and patient safety.
Who is the Joint Commission?
Establishes criteria for levels of health care services or systems based on risk to the patients, staff, or visitors in health care facilities to minimize the hazards of fire, explosion, and electricity.
What is NFPA 99?
This advance technology uses a beam of energy like a "blade" to fight off corruption in the body. Calm down Johnny, we are fighting cancer not the dark side of the force.
What is Cyber Knife?
This type of equipment combats the pooling of blood in the legs by gently squeezing the legs from the ankles up to the knee, from the ankles up to the thigh or from the foot up to the knee.
What is a sequential compression device?
Number of vendors who worked collectively during the installation in the ICUs.
What is 5 vendors?
(Nihon Kohden, Netcom, Systems Electronic, a flooring contractor, and an electrician)