Posted by vsarmiento, 12/28/2011 4:39:13 PM

The local Biomed Dept should have a sub-department that can be called as their Equipment Depot. This is an area where equipment are cleaned prior to use or stored if not needed. It is also the responsibility of this biomed branch to make daily rounds to collect any idle, floating and dirty or used equipment from the patient floors. Beside the trained equipment cleaners, this area is also staffed with entry level tech trained to do the regular patient safety inspections or minor PMs on equipment passing through or being processed in this area.  All equipment after being cleaned are then "Tagged" and/or covered indicating it has under gone the final cleaning process, ready to be released and use.  Instead of putting stickers, easily removable color coded tags or tamper proof paper bands are attached to any of the controls or power plugs of the device after they're cleaned.  Due to its fragile characteristic, the paper tag, or band are easily destroyed once the plug is attached to the wall or the power switch is moved to turn the power on the machine.   Adhesives are not used in this labeling scheme.