Designing special test instruments for preventive maintenance.
Periodic performance testing of biomedical equipment can be made considerably more efficient by careful design of test procedures and by fabrication of special test instruments which are designed for those procedures. The design philosophy behind such procedures and instruments and its applicability to a wide variety of biomedical devices is discussed. As a practical example, an ECG machine/patient monitor test system is described and construction details are given.
D002138:Calibration; D004562:Electrocardiography / Q000295:instrumentation*; D006801:Humans; D008284:Maintenance and Engineering, Hospital; D008991:Monitoring, Physiologic / Q000295:instrumentation*; D014481:United States; D014894:Weights and Measures