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Pooling:

Pooling is a resource management term thatrefers to the grouping together of resources for thepurposes of maximizing advantage and/orminimizing risk to the users.

Resource Managementis the efficient and effectivedeployment for an organization's resources when theyare needed.

Such resources may include financial resources,inventory, human skills, production resources, orinformation technology (IT).

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The TowerofBabel, by Brueghel.

The idea of resource pooling is to try to make a network perform as well

as if all its resources were together and shared and interchangeable, so

that "nothing will be restrained from the users, which they have imagined

to do."

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The term is used in many disciplines, such as,

y Financey Computing

y Equipment

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Equipment Pooling:

Pooling of equipment is used to maintain "ready for

use" equipment while damaged or dirty equipment is

repaired and cleaned, by replacing it with an identical

piece of equipment from the pool.

An equipment pool is an identified area within a

hospital where medical equipment are stored or

loaned out to patient areas on a temporary basis.

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Medical Equipment Pooling:

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A survey reveals that of the total cost of a hospital

project, nearly 60 per cent involves hospital equipment.

Nearly half of this resource is used in the purchase ofmedical equipment.

Hence, the purchase, maintenance and replacement of

medical equipment are an essential and integral part of

hospital management.

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In order to reduce the investment on equipment and foreffective utilization of life saving equipment, hospitals opt for

equipment sharing, that is, many departments using the

same equipment.

For effective usage of such equipment, a central pool is

created, where the instrument can be used in various

departments when needed.

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AModel for Standardized

Equipment Pool Handling

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Advantages:

inimizes the fleet cost and maximizes the serviceto the customers - producing an overallguaranteed service at a minimum cost.

Leads to effective usage of equipment andreduction in the investment on equipment.

onitoring and tracking the equipment, the

operator of the equipment and controlmaintenance service based on use, ensuresmaximum utilization of the equipment andoptimum serviceability at the lowest cost.

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Accurate asset management tools allow us to provide

reliable measures of equipment utilization, permittingus to predict future needs.

The pool eliminates problems like lack of equipment

when needed, the wrong type of equipment found,

lack of fitting disposables, the items that could be

found being out of order or too dirty to be used.

Improvement in quality of patient care due to the

reliability of the diverse and widespread equipmentinventory.

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Nurses no longer waste time searching for equipment

ready for use, hence, patient safety is greatly

enhanced.

Economically a good system.

Provides an excellent opportunity for the biomedicalengineering department to increase its technology

management activities.

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Disadvantages:

Chances of non-availability of equipment at times.

Contamination risk is bigger if equipments are not

sterilized properly.

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Conclusion:

So far edical Equipment pooling has proven to be

beneficial for all kinds of hospitals but only if done with

professionalism and should be as close as possible to

the ODEL discussed earlier.

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Some facts from MAX, Saket

With approximately 10 ipap machine for more than650 bedded hospital equipment pooling has proven tobe efficient and effective for our hospital.

With only 50 Ventilators earlier and with 2 more addedto the count recently , equipment pooling has proven tobe a boon for this hospital and only an efficient andhardworking iomedical Team can do this.

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From the Ventilators data for the last 1 month, it is

clear that approximately 98% of the adult ventilators

were in continuous use and this can go upto 100%anytime.

Therefore for AX Hospital, due to the Equipment

Pooling we can predict the future need for ventilatorswhich has to be taken seriously.

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