title: Equipment maintenance.
abstract: Basic to the success of the perinatal intensive care unit is a cooperative liasion between the medical and nursing staff and the clinical engineering staff. To this end the functions of the clinical engineering staff are preventive maintenance, inventory documentation, pre-purchase evaluation, emergency repair, personnel education, and management integration.
mesh_terms: D004865:Equipment and Supplies, Hospital / Q000592:standards; D007362:Intensive Care Units; D008284:Maintenance and Engineering, Hospital