COURSE OUTLINE

TITLE: Hospital Machines and Equipment: Its Usage and Maintenance

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DESCRIPTION
This course explores the knowledge of Staff Nurses on specific hospital
machines and equipment; pertaining to its operating instructions, specification
and maintenance, that are used in rendering nursing care and supportive
treatment required for patient facing life threatening condition.

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DURATION
35minutes to 1 hour

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LEARNING OBJECTIVES
At the end of this course, Staff Nurses will be able:
1 to identify and familiarize to the different parts of these machines and
equipment and its purposes
2 to demonstrate the ability to operate these machines and equipment
3 to discuss the nurses responsibility in the maintenance of these machines
and equipment

CONTENT

MECHANICAL VENTILATOR BENNETT

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PURPOSE
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Refers to any methods to deliver volumes of gas into a patient's lungs over an
extended period of time to remove metabolically produced carbon dioxide.

It is used to provide the pulmonary system with the mechanical power to

maintain physiologic ventilation, to manipulate the ventilatory pattern and
airway pressures for purposes of improving the efficiency of ventilation and/or
oxygenation, and to decrease myocardial work by decreasing the work of
breathing.

INDICATION

Respiratory Failure
Cardiopulmonary arrest

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Trauma (especially head, neck, and chest)

Cardiovascular impairment (strokes, tumors, infection, emboli, trauma)
Neurological impairment (drugs, poisons, myasthenia gravis)
Pulmonary impairment (infections, tumors, pneumothorax, COPD, trauma,
pneumonia, poison

How long is a ventilator used?

Doctors always try to help patients get off the ventilator at the earliest possible time.

Weaning - the process of getting the patient off the ventilator

PARTS
STEPS OF OPERATION
MAINTENANCE
a. Cleaning
b. Preventive
c. Corrective

CARDIAC MONITOR CARDIOLIFE

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PURPOSE
INDICATION
PARTS
STEPS OF OPERATION
MAINTENANCE
a. Cleaning
b. Preventive
c. Corrective

DEFIBRILLATOR BURDICK DC200

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PURPOSE
INDICATION
PARTS
STEPS OF OPERATION
MAINTENANCE
a. Cleaning
b. Preventive
c. Corrective

PULSE OXIMETER
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PURPOSE
PARTS/MATERIALS

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STEPS OF OPERATION
MAINTENANCE
a. Cleaning
b. Preventive
c. Corrective

SUCTION APPARATUS
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PURPOSE
PARTS/MATERIALS
STEPS OF OPERATION
MAINTENANCE
a. Cleaning
b. Preventive
c. Corrective

NEBULIZER
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PURPOSE
PARTS/MATERIALS
STEPS OF OPERATION
MAINTENANCE
a. Cleaning
b. Preventive
c. Corrective

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EVALUATION
Checklist
Criteria: Skills
35%
Knowledge
40%
Attitude
25%
Total: 100%

Prepared & Submitted by:

SHAYNE ANNE R. LEE, RN