Not too long ago, most of the vets required to be handy and technical enough to do their own service when their anesthesia equipment started acting up. Using duct tape and equine wrap or whatever else you could find — because how you fixed it didn’t matter as long as it was kept running a little longer.
But the situation has changed now, most medical professionals are growing a successful practice by regularly scheduling maintenance on their anesthesia equipment. Getting your equipment serviced by our expert staff makes them more reliable and last for years to come. Furthermore, it’s one less thing you have to worry about!
As we know, the anesthetic machine is considered to be quite an important piece of equipment to most medical practices. A lot of different brands of machines and few standards related to the design and manufacture are available in the market. Therefore, the care and maintenance, as well as regular service of the anesthetic machine becomes an important part of the standard operating procedure of any practice to maximize patient safety.
CARE AND MAINTENANCE VS. SERVICE
Generally, care and veterinary anaesthesia machine maintenance are associated with daily, weekly, and/or monthly procedures performed to keep the machine in optimum working condition. This process involves installing new soda sorb periodically, filling the vaporizer, removing moisture, and cleaning the machine. All of these procedures may seem like routine and simple tasks but if not performed properly may compromise the proper function of the machine.
Routine service and preventative maintenance are usually performed annually and involves the disassembly of the machine and inspection of all components. Parts are replaced as necessary and the high pressure, low pressure, and rebreathing system are verified. It also includes calibration verification of the vaporizer. This should be provided by a reputable service company that carries one million dollars of liability insurance. Combined together, regular care and routine preventive maintenance will assure reliable operation of the anesthetic machine.
Talk to our executive if you need veterinary anaesthesia machine maintenance and we will begin right away.
