HTMA Texas General Meeting

Presentation: 

Medical Equipment Issues and Concerns Due To COVID-19- Round Table Discussion With HTM Leaders From The Texas Medical Center

Discussion about how we all are managing the following during COVID 19:

• Staffing your shops (issues /concerns)
• Do you have an action plan if your staff were to become positive?
• Tracking Staff as they enter COVID rooms
• Addressing equipment issues in COVID rooms (Repairs and PM)
• Managing vendors coming onsite to repair and/or PM your equipment
• What type of loaner equipment has your Hospital rented due to COVID and what type of work volume has it put on your staff?
• Have you or has your team/department/staff been asked to come up with new ways to setup medical equipment outside the patient rooms, to reduce nursing from going in/out of the rooms?
• What’s been the trend in reference to equipment failures (Vent, Infusion Pumps, VSM, Beds, Patient monitors etc….)?
• Are you seeing equipment failures due to over cleaning with wet moisture wipes (Causing short circuit)?
• Do you have access to PPE for your staff?
• Were your staff fitted for M95 mask?
• What do you have in place if a vendor will not come onsite to perform services (Repairs /PM’s)?
• Do you have a questionnaire in reference to equipment that may have been used to treat patient with COVID?
• What do you think the impact of the Flu season will have on COVID 19?
• Other issues and concerns that were not mentioned above from the panel & general members

NOTE: We will be taking everyone’s temperature, enforcing social distancing and wearing masks during the meeting.