Prima 451 – User Manual 19
5. Installation and Pre-use Checks
5.1 General Pre-use C
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WARNING
If the system has been commissioned or serviced in a
separate location, check that all tools and test/monitoring
equipment are removed before it taken into the MRI facility.
A printed version of this checklist is supplied with the
machine.
Where necessary, sections 5.2 to 5.8 provide an explanation
and procedure for setting up the machine and ancillary
equipment and the various checks that must be carried out
before clinical use.
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Pre-use checks must be
performed
b
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f
o
r
e each period of
clinical
u
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e
.
NOTE
These checks must be
supplemented
b
y
periodic Function
Testing, and full
S
e
r
v
i
c
e Testing by a
Penlon-trained
engineer to
t
h
e Service Schedule given in the Prima 451
Service Ma
nu
a
l
.
These checks will not in themselves ensure the safe use
of the apparatus, which remains the responsibility of the
qualified practitioner in charge of it.
PRE-USE CH
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C
K
L
IST - BEFORE EACH PERIOD OF CLINICAL USE
Power supply
1. Plugged in
2. Switched on
3. Green mains power indicator visible
Gas supplies and suction
1. Gas and vacuum pipelines – ‘tug test’
2. Cylinders filled and turned off
3. Flowmeters working (if applicable)
4. Mechanical AHD system functioning
5. Oxygen flush working
6. Suction clean and working
Breathing system
1. Whole system unobstructed and leak free using ‘two-bag’ test (see below)
2. Vaporizers – fitted correctly, filled, leak free, plugged in (if necessary)
3. Soda lime – colour checked
4. Alternative systems (Bain,T-piece) – checked
Refer to warnings 2 and 3 in section 1.
Ventilator
1. Working and configured correctly
2. Refer to Penlon ventilator user manual for pre-use check instructions
3. Back-up battery charged.
Scavenging
1. Working and configured correctly
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