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Medical devices, which are an indispensable part of health services in hospitals, need technical support during their lifetime. In this process, medical devices need to be checked for performance and safety, and emergency intervention is needed in case of failure. All these applications applied to medical devices are carried out with the maintenance program. The maintenance studies performed by the biomedical staff of the hospital or the technical personnel of the device’s manufacturer provide the medical devices to be more reliable, efficient, and safe.
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Sezdi, M. (2019). The Technical Support: Repair, Preventive Maintenance, and Inspection. In: Paul, S. (eds) Biomedical Engineering and its Applications in Healthcare. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-3705-5_25
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