This customizable document, Emergency Procedures for Medical Equipment Failure/Disruption, is taken from MCN Healthcare’s Human Resources Manual. For more than 20 years, MCN has been the health care industry’s leading provider of policy and procedure templates, forms, competencies and other compliance tools.

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Here is some sample content from Emergency Procedures for Medical Equipment Failure/Disruption:

	POLICY: Equipment which meets Hospital's criteria for critical to patient safety, shall have emergency procedures in the event a malfunction or failure occurs. Equipment considered critical to patient safety includes life support, life sustaining or other critical equipment whose malfunction or failure may result in an adverse patient outcome. All clinical department managers will develop, inservice staff on and follow specific clinical response procedures in the event of an equipment failure. PROCEDURE: In the event of an equipment failure, the following procedure will be followed by...
Second excerpt:
	...failure ensure an Ambu bag is available until replacement equipment is brought to the patient care unit, obtain new telemetry unit if unit fails. If replacement equipment is necessary, depending on the kind of equipment will be notified to obtain a replacement. The department manager, Biomedical Engineering Department, Risk Manager and Performance Improvement will be notified of the failure. An incident report will be completed describing the...