Fms-Pp-Removal of Equipment From Services
Fms-Pp-Removal of Equipment From Services
Fms-Pp-Removal of Equipment From Services
Administration FMS
Subject
REMOVAL OF EQUIPMENT FROM Applies to:
PURPOSE:
1. To ensure that patient care equipment is used safely and appropriately, performed
properly, and is managed cost-effectively in the environment of care for which it is
intended.
2. To minimize the risk of using patient care equipment.
DEFINITIONS:
1. Condemn: to disapprove of; to censure.
RESPONSIBILITY:
1. Biomedical Department.
POLICY:
1. To Condemn/Remove Equipment.
PROCEDURE:
1. Condemning/Removing Equipment:
The following things should be the reason for removal of equipments from service:
1.1. Obsolete.
1.2. Clinically unsafe.
1.3. Electrically unsafe.
1.4. Mechanically unsafe.
1.5. Beyond economic repair.
1.6. Spare parts unavailable.
1.7. Unreliable operation.
1.8. Contaminated internally with body fluids or other obnoxious substance.
2. Biomedical Department shall notify finance when equipment is condemned to ensure it is
removed from the asset register.
3. When a decision has been made that an item of equipment has reached the end of its
working life, the relevant Head Department and the Biomedical Supervisor should jointly
complete a "Condemning and Disposal Form" for Electro Medical Equipment.
4. On disposal of the equipment the Biomedical Supervisor should;
TQM-F-005
Division Department
Administration FMS
Subject
REMOVAL OF EQUIPMENT FROM Applies to:
REFERENCES:
1. Reviewed
Medical
by Equipment Management
Dr. Asaad Hassan Plan. FMS Director 24/02/1441
2. CBAHI Resources.
3. KFMC (King Fahd Medical City).
Reviewed by Mr. Turky Alfahad Supportive
Services Director 26/02/1441
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