102th day of attachment

My colleague and I continued doing preventive maintenance for the Clinic C for maintenance and we managed to complete all Slit Lamps, as other remaining devices required servicing are located at polyclinics. I did some paper work such as scanning and transferring scanned documents to the local drive or folders.

There will be a talk at 12 – 1pm at the idea lab located near the cafeteria. The talk is held by Olympus. The speaker is Regina from Endoscopy. She talks more of the latest technologies of the endoscopes. The area that I am very interested was the endo capsule that is about half the size of our pinky. The whole process of diagnosis takes about 8 hours and most of the patients would not want to stay in the hospital for that long, as they might be busy. The capsule is about to adjust the brightness automatically. I believe that it is one-time usage as the way to remove the device is to pass motion after the test is done unless they have a reagent that able to sterilize the device.

After the talk, my colleague and I went to Clinic C to redo the preventive maintenance of the Slit Lamp again as we want to regroup the electronic table and tonometer under the serial number of the lamp. It was kind of rush to perform all the maintenance as we are limited to an hour before patients start coming in. We managed to complete around 10 Slit Lamp. However, there is still much maintenance to be done in Clinic C.

We did not return the repaired devices today since there are not many devices were sent for repair lately.

101th day of attachment

My colleague and I started preventive maintenance earlier than our usual timing as the Clinics will start at 9 am. However, there are patients at the clinic even before the clinic starts its operation for the day. We will only managed to perform preventive maintenance at certain few timings that are before 9am, lunch hour and after 4 pm. There are fewer patients and easier for us to perform it. We managed to finish doing the preventive maintenance of the Slit Lamps in Clinic C.

In the afternoon, we went back to Clinic C to do the tonometers that located near the Slit lamp and the A/B scan which is used to detect any retina tear by making used of sonar. We also went to clinical measurement clinic (Clinic F) to perform preventive maintenance for HP defibrillator that has 5 tests to be done which defibrillator calibration, energy delivery and etc. At 3.30 pm, we will be having a briefing about the dialysis machine. The briefing is approximately an hour and talking about the safety features including the common problems or faults. However, there is a flaw with this Model, as the solution used to dilute the solid salt will be kicked easily.

100th day of attachment

We start going to the various patient wards to focus on our preventive maintenance for the month. For this month, there are more devices under warranty and contract. Therefore, not many devices required in-house maintenance or other maintenance. If we are done with the preventive maintenance with the wards, we will be going to various departments such as X – Ray.

Most of the equipments that we have done so far are nebulisers. In the afternoon, we will be going to Clinics, X – Ray and endoscopy department for preventive maintenance. I feel that we are able to complete most of the preventive maintenance for the month. However, Clinics are too busy for attending the patients that allow us having difficulty of doing the maintenance as we are not suppose to do the maintenance in front of them. My supervisor told me that engineering technicians and me would be attending a short briefing about the operation of a dialysis machine that just commissioned. The briefing will only focus on the operation sector of device. The briefing will be at 3pm in the afternoon by the service engineer from that vendor.

99th day of attachment

My colleague and I went to collect 14 electronic sphygnomomamometers and 11 ear thermometers for preventive maintenance, as they required in-house maintenance so we basically focused on in-house maintenance before going to the maintenance at the various departments. I will focus on the maintenance for the 11 thermometers while he is doing the maintenance for the sphygnomomamometers. A few of the ear thermometers are either condemned, unallocated or sister is not around. Therefore, I have to do the few that are with me and collect the rest in the afternoon when the sister will be around or gave the staff nurses the ear thermometers.

The preventive maintenance for that few of thermometers were done before lunch and keying of the results to the profile was quite tedious as we have to key in words by words. I managed to finish almost all of the Ear Thermometers except from ward 3. Tomorrow, my colleague and I will start doing the maintenance for the devices that are at the various departments.

98th day of attachment

I started on my final report and adding or amending the information that I wrote in my interim report. Additional information such as software upgrading and how the workflow changes in BME compared to I first came here. From what I see, I seem to learn quite many stuffs and I just hope that I can achieve more. Works sometimes may seem monotonous and systematic. However, when you finally able to finish a repair all by yourself, you will feel a sense of fulfilling. It was fun knowing new people and introduced to many variety or range of devices. I believe that it will enrich my life with new knowledge and skills that I have learnt from attachment. There are 2 infusion pumps sent to BME for repair, STC – 503 and STC – 523. The volumetric pump having a fault that allows it to purge automatically after self test is completed and the other having “error 2” message displayed. I helped out the administrative staff to scan the documents since she seem to be very busy and getting out of hand soon so I offered my help to scan all the documents. I almost spend the whole entire day scanning all of the documents.