Tips to Keep your CT Scanner in Great Working Condition

There are some extremely valuable tips that can help you maintain your CT Scanner and lower the cost of your CT Scanner maintenance.

Tips to Maintain your CT Scanner:

1. Address Intermittent Issues

Address any possible Intermittent Issues as early as possible. Intermittent error codes are typically signs of future malfunctions and damage. Mitigate any problems before you are forced to shut down your machine. For clinics or any other healthcare facilities that are continuously running their systems, it is extremely important. Disrupting the use of your CT Scanner is a major inconvenience for everybody and leaves you with no option than to divert your patients elsewhere.

2. Practice Preventive Maintenance

Preventive Maintenance (PM) and in general, CT Scanner Maintenance, is vital if you want to maximize your CT scanner’s uptime. Your system may have a problem that needs to be addressed long before you find it out. Don’t wait for an engineer to review your error logs, prevent it. Checking connections, testing image quality, greasing bearings, cleaning fans, and making backups of your system data are just a few areas that Preventive Maintenance will cover.

3. Monitor CT Scan Room Temperature

It is impossible to overstate the importance of the control of your CT Scan Room Temperature and other environmental conditions including humidity in the room.

A CT Scanner should be kept at a Recommended Temperature between 65 and 72° F and failure to do so might lead to component damage.

It is equally important to monitor and control the humidity of the room. The Relative Humidity indicates how much moisture is in the air. The standard OEM recommendation is that the CT Scan Room be kept between 30 and 70% relative humidity. In case the percentage rises above 70% you risk damaging your equipment. Additionally, it is important to keep all boards, cables, and connectors free of condensation.

4. Leverage Alarms to Monitor Room Conditions

Today, several alarm systems can be found in the market, that are activated when the environmental conditions exceed recommended limits. This allows you to introduce a strong safety net that provides an alarm if something out of the normal occurs. In the long term it is always cheaper and safer to invest in prevention!

5. Keep CT Scan Room Clean & Organized

One of the main factors that will keep our CT Scanner in great working conditions and will guarantee longevity and proper function is cleanliness. The CT Scanner room must always be kept clean and dust-free. Dust build-up could burn out boards, clog fans, and bind mechanical moving parts.

Moreover, keep your additional materials well organized, cords collected and nothing overflowing the space. An organized and clean scan room will help to prevent accidents and enhance the lifespan of your CT scanner.

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