{"id":281,"date":"2014-10-30T20:26:32","date_gmt":"2014-10-30T20:26:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.euroespa.com\/?page_id=281"},"modified":"2014-10-30T20:26:32","modified_gmt":"2014-10-30T20:26:32","slug":"anaesthetic-related-equipment","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.euroespa.com\/science-education\/specialized-sections\/espa-guidelines\/safety\/anaesthetic-related-equipment\/","title":{"rendered":"Anaesthetic Related Equipment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Safe Management of Anaesthetic Related Equipment<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Although this guideline also highlights UK management structures the principles are valid for all who use anaesthetic equipment. The main points of this guideline are summarized below.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Safety, quality and performance considerations must be included in all equipment acquisition decisions.<\/li>\n<li>Each directorate should nominate one consultant with responsibility for equipment management. This Nominated Consultant should be a&nbsp;member of a&nbsp;Medical Devices Management Group, which reports directly to the Trust Board, and he or she should liaise closely with the Technical Servicing Manager.<\/li>\n<li>An inventory of all equipment, including donated equipment, must be held by the technical department for maintenance and replacement purposes.<\/li>\n<li>A planned preventative maintenance programme must be in place.<\/li>\n<li>There should be a&nbsp;policy to cope with equipment breakdown.<\/li>\n<li>A replacement programme which defines equipment life and correct disposal procedures should be in place.<\/li>\n<li>Purchase of new equipment should include wide consultation (especially involving users), and technical advice to ensure practicality, cost effectiveness and suitability for purpose.<\/li>\n<li>There must be a&nbsp;commissioning or acceptance procedure before any new equipment is put into use.<\/li>\n<li>All users must be trained in the use of all equipment that they may use.<\/li>\n<li>All adverse incidents arising from the use of equipment must be reported.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.aagbi.org\/sites\/default\/files\/safe_management_2009_0.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">Link to the guideline<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Safe Management of Anaesthetic Related Equipment Although this guideline also highlights UK management structures the principles are valid for all&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":280,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_searchwp_excluded":"","footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-281","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euroespa.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/pages\/281","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euroespa.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euroespa.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euroespa.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euroespa.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=281"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.euroespa.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/pages\/281\/revisions"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euroespa.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/pages\/280"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euroespa.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=281"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}