A Battery of Common-Sense Maintenance (Service Solutions‪)‬

One might think that Bill Dugan, CBET, has 1,675 reasons to worry about batteries. As the director of clinical engineering services of the 300-bed St Vincent Healthcare in Billings, Mont, Dugan is responsible for 1,675 medical devices that utilize some type of battery, from lead acids to lithium ions and the occasional "smart" battery. But Dugan and other veteran biomedical equipment technicians say that there is no magic bullet to preventing battery failures or reducing battery costs. They simply advise a common-sense approach to regular preventive maintenance and to reducing costs through regular battery testing and cautious utilization of trusted third-party battery vendors. From Crash Carts to Infusion Pumps