Just A Thought...

The other day, I watched one of my favorite shows on TV, Trauma: Life In the ER. One of the patients they received had multiple gun shot wounds. I've watched a lot of the emergency cases already and yet, until now, it still amazes me how all of the modern medical equipments do wonders in saving people's lives. That person was admitted and immediately given treatment, and if it wasn't for the best Doctors, Nurses, ER staff they have there, and the modern medical equipments, I doubt if that person would have made it alive. From the X-ray done to determine the distance and depth traveled by the bullet into the patient's body, to check if there were major organs damaged or any signs of internal bleeding, to the tools used to insert chest tube to prevent pneumothorax, and to checking and maintaining good vital signs, were just amazing! The team and what they used to perform all the necessary medical procedure saved the man's life.

But how do they take care of hospital equipments like that and how do they make sure they are always in good condition and that not a single one of them will malfunction in the middle of a medical procedure? I did a little research online to feed my curiosity, and I found some answers and some of them involves something like Facility Management Software. I don't know much about that but based on what I've read, it helps prevent and predict equipment failures. They use it to keep track on every equipment to make sure everything is working and are up to date and if something needs immediate attention, they know which one needs to be taken care of and what type of work needs to be done and if the job has been done on time or not.

I just thought about it while I was watching the show because those equipments are vital to us and it just made me ask myself, how do we take care of things that are now keeping us alive longer? You know, just a though.