Attachment Day 36
22/10/07
Monday

Monday morning went to Tan Tock Seng Hospital waited for Tham and he called saying that Jeffery is on leave so waited for his car at taxi stand and we going to Changi General hospital.
Along the way, Tham told me that he had to submit some reports to Phillips so we headed to Phillips first.

After we arrived at CGH, we went to the BME first to borrow a push trolley to put all our testers equipment and push to the wards.

We went to MICU ward and SICU ward to do PM on Pagewriters and Heartstart MRX monitor which model number is M1166A.
It is a very small transport patient monitor which has all the functions of the big patient monitor we normally sees in the wards.

As usual, Tham will do the testing of equipments and i do the electrical testing (ESA) and paperwork to save time.
Tham told me that the service password for the MRX monitor is 27678 and asked me to try and so i did.

After the day's job, we went back to BME to return the trolley and to submit reports to Mr. Derrick seah.

Attachment Day 37
23/10/07
Tuesday

Today i met Tham at CGH then he said there is a change of plan so we headed to Mount Alvernia hospital to finish up the contract services there.
Upon reaching Mount Alvernia, we went straight up to the labour ward hoping that there is some empty rooms for us to do PM.
We waited and rest there for hours and there is still no empty room so we went down to find Mr. Toh, Mount Alvernia bme coordinator for help as he is familiar with the hospital.
Mr. Toh then bring us to find the remaining small modules.
We went to the major operating theater and search for the store room and we are unable to find some of the modules. So we have no choice but have to continue to wait at the labour ward for empty beds.

It was about 1pm and Tham had a appointment at Jurong Island for servicing a ECG machine.
Tham told me it was at jurong Island and so i asked no further.
So Tham drove to the Jurong Island checkpoint and found out that the location of the customer is located at 18 Pioneer road.
The place is ExxonMobil, it quite a big place actually and had security guards around.
We went there to service a pagewriter Trim 3 ECG machine.


Attachment Day 38
24/10/07
Wednesday

Today we spent our time at CGH.
We went to all the wards listed on the PM list and finished up Changi General Hospital's PM.
Example of how to get to the ward is that ward 46 is located at level 6 and ward 13 is located at level 3.
Now i know that the last digit of the ward number stands for their level.


Attachment Day 39
25/10/07
Thursday

Today at SGH doing PM for the fetal monitor at the labour ward (ward 52A).
Tham's ESA tester is very sensitive to external connection and one example of interception is the LAN cable that connects the fetal monitor to the computer placed below the equipment and the cable has to be unplug in order to proceed with the testing.

We went to A&E department to service defibrillator and a V24CT patient monitor.

Attachment Day 40
26/10/07
Friday

Friday morning at TTSH doing service call from Jeffery.
Tham thought Jeffery was going to ask him redo the PM but upon reaching ward 7A, Jeffery asked Tham to repair the Pagewriter which has a double printing problem.

Tham did a self test function on the Pagewriter and print out the settings for it and went to other ward to compare the settings if there is any difference.
As to Tham prediction, one of the setting had been programmed wrongly or accidentally set to the other setting.

Following that afternoon we went to the MAH's labour ward do to 3 fetal monitors and that will complete Mount Alvernia's PM for the month.
After that went to SGH labour ward to do PM for a Codemaster defibrillator.





pictures when i'm free k ? xD

haiz x 9999999999999999999999999999999999!!!

someone spoiled my mood for the whole weekend !

WHOLE WEEKEND !! imagine that !!

almost wanted to die already la...

ok heres the story...

Friday when i'm still working, i sms my fren to take the bike fork cos i broke mine and i wanted to go for friday nite ride at town with frenz.

he sms me saying that i have to go his house now to collect if i want the fork as he is going out soon.
so i sms my other frenz see if anyone of them free can help me collect.
noone is free... -.-

nvm.. my fren the one selling fork called me saying that he will wait for me to finish work and go his house collect till 6pm den he go out.

i happily agreed and decided to go off abit earlier than usual.
around 530pm when i board the crowded train, my fren sms me saying that he is outside already. -.-"

i replied "F**k, why u nv tell me u r going out".
he dunno give what excuses saying fren ask him go out.


den i was like =.= double sian already la.. canceled my friday nite outing with frenz.
then today which was saturday, i called him from 12pm all the way to 10pm he nv pick up his fone.
1030pm he sms me saying "i juz woke up and going town already."

haiz.. i dunno wat to say to this kind of ppl.
irresponsible ppl...

its so hard to buy things from him and i don feel like spending 300bucks already. =.=
but i also wanto ride my bike fast ! argh...

hoho...
i'm getting more and more lazy to blog =P


and now something to talk about for whats happening the previous week. bare with me.



Attachment day 31
15/10/07
Monday

Me and Tham were stationed at TTSH the whole day.
First we went to the X-ray department to do up 4 Codemaster defibrillators till lunch time.
We had to do up Jeffery's PM list also at the ward area.
From what i heard and what i experienced, Jeffery is a person that is very particular about things and he checked through all our submitted reports thoroughly.

He spotted Tham's mistake about the Heartstart defibrallator's printout and the Electrical Safety Analyzer test printout.
The printout shows Type 2 equipment being selected for the test whereas it was supposed to be type 1.

So in the end Jeffery had to follow us up to the ward to redo that equipment and using threatening tone saying doing something wrong can cost a life to Tham in a joking manner.
As Tham is doing the equipment and i was writing the report, Jeffery talked to me.
After the equipment is done, we went down to BME department to submit the report.
Jeffery told Tham not to repeat this mistakes again and causing inconvenience for both parties.
Thats all for Monday.


Attachment day 32
16/10/07
Tuesday

Tham asked me to meet at TTSH in the morning.
When i reached TTSH, he told me that theres a change of plan and headed to Gleneagles Hospital instead.
When we reached GEH (Gleneagles hospital), went to BME workshop to find the person in charge to help us to locate the machine.
So we did 3 heartstart defibrillators at the workshop. The OT is just one door away from BME workshop so the person in charge helped us swap the equipment after we had done one.

Left one defibrillator in the PCMS (parkway centre medical simulation) room which had not done so we went to find.
It was located at the rooftop and the purpose of the room is for teaching the nurses.
We went up the roof access stairs and found nobody in the simulation room so we go back.
thats all for tuesday.


Attachment day 33
17/10/07
Wednesday

Morning went to TTSH to do PM as usual.
Did patient monitors and defibrillators.
Other than Mr Jeffery from TTSH BME, this time is under Mr Federick.

Afternoon went to Serangoon SilverCross clinic to answer to a service call.
Did a simulation check and printout check. Everything's fine and we had wasted a trip there.
Meet Mr Aw around that area, he is from Gleneagles hospital BME and Tham told me he stay at Serangoon area.

Went to NUH CTICU to d PM for those remaining beds patient monitors and check the modules serial number.

Last stop was at boon lay, Jurong medical centre which is next to library.
Tham told me JMC is under Alexander hospital and we went to the OT in JMC to do a PM for a patient monitor.


Attachment day 34
18/10/07
Thursday

Morning meet Tham at Mount Alvernia hospital to do PM at the labour ward.
We did a few fetal monitors in the empty rooms and went over to NUH CTICU to do a patient monitor as the staff nurse called us.
We have to prior to NUH because CTICU is always fullhouse so once its vacant then we must grab our chance to do PM there.

After that we went back to Mount Alvernia again to do PM at the major OT at level 4.
When we just finished doing the small patient monitor at the OT, Tham received a call from SGH burn centre (ward 43) saying that some equipments had due for PM.

Since the nurse called, Tham decided to go down.
Upon reaching Burn centre, we did codemater defibrillator and some dmsll patient monitors in the rooms.

Attachment day 35
19/10/07
Friday

Morning meet Tham at SGH bme to change pass.
Then proceed on to Burn centre to finish up this month equipments at there.
Went to rm 17 & rm 19 to do PM for monitors.
Room 17 had a sign saying dropplet & contact precautions and so we have to wear apron and gloves into that room.
After that everything had to throw inside the rubbish bin of that room.

Its is lunch time and had receive a call from NUH CTICU again so we have to rush down and do PM for another equipment.
After that went to Mount alvernia to do some PM.




pictures later............

hi ...
have been a busy or rather lazy week so never blog.. haha...
now one shot blog one whole week ! -.-"


Attachment day 26
Monday
08/10/07

Morning went to the office as Tham is still on leave.
Tuan has to conduct a training and so i attended it.
The training is about Graseby 3000 series pump and he conducted the training for NUH's BME at Tuas office.
Actually Tuan said there's no need for a training because everything you need to know about the pump is already inside the manual.
During the training, Tuan presented with powerpoint slides and brought up some samples of infusion pump from the workshop at level 1 to show live example to the engineers.
Some of the topics covered are the different assembly of the pumps, error code numbers, special tools for testing and some cautions when doing the calibration checks.

Lunchtime Tuan and a salesgirl drove all the NUH engineers and me to Raffles Marina to eat.
The treat will be on the boss and that means we can order whatever we want.
After lunch went back office to continue the training.
It was pretty much hands on for the later part of the training as the engineers have some questions of calibration to ask and Tuan just dismantle the pump and show them step by step.



Attachment day 27
Tuesday

Tham ask me to go to NUH myself to meet him.
so i take the shuttle bus from buona vista MRT to NUH.
He meet me at the taxi stand and bring me to level 2 to LRW ward.
I can see that all the beds are taken and so the nurse told us that we can service one monitor first and they exchange with another bed.
We did PM for 5 bed patient monitors and Tham receive a call from Phillips calling him to go back to office for something.
So he drop me at Toa Payoh central as it is near to Phillips and hopefully after the short meeting he can pick me up and proceed on with the job.
I went to the library to read up some books and waited.
I waited till about 5pm and Tham called me saying that it is too late to do services already so asking me to go home.



Attachment day 28
Wednesday


I was asked to wait at Toa Payoh the swimming complex in the morning and Tham drives me to Gleneagles hospital as i do not know how to go.

We reach Gleneagles, headed towards the security counter to exchange for a pass and went to BME.
Gleneagles we look for Eric who is in charge of our PM and he gave us instructions to do it.
We have no time but only did 2 Heartstart defibrillator.
Tham received a service call that he had to go back Phillips to take a LCD monitor and bring to NUH to change.
So we had lunch at Toa Payoh and headed to NUH to change the LCD for patient monitor.
we had a hard time replacing the monitor as there are many screws at the back and plus the hanger also need to take out.
Then we met NUH BME's Ivan and he help us out here and there and also turn on the monitor for us because we keep pressing the wrong button to switch on the monitor.


Attachment day 29
Thursday

Thursday went to Tan Tock Seng Hospital.
Whole day was doing the same Heartstart XL model M4735A defibrillator.
Tham said had to complete ttsh job as soon as possible.
Pushing the trolley of testing equipment from ward to ward to service the defibrillator is tiring and most of the wards are not air conditional.


Attachment day 30
Friday
12/10/07

Morning i went straight to office as Tham need to get some service replacement part from Mr ong.
So i waited for Tham to come and after he got the box from Mr Ong then we left office.
Heading towards Serangoon' Silver Cross Clinic which is located just beside the bus interchange.
Then i open up the box and realised it was battery inside.
It was the battery for the pagewriter machine.
Tham instructed me to take out the old battery and i can clearly see that the block of battery was bloated in shape.
And i think the battery cost about $300.
Next stop is the EastShore Hospital located at bedok.
Tham had to deliver the small patient monitor to them as the nurse there complain that the servicing took too long.
Tham wanted to explain to them that the Phillips engineers has been very busy in a big project and cause the delay but in the end he never say anything because the BME people never ask anything.
After lunch, we went to gleneagles hospital to service 2 Heartstart defibrillator.
As the others defibrillators were in use or standby so we cannot service.

Attachment Day 25
Friday

I report to toh guan IDS warehouse at 10am.
I reach there just on time because there isn't any traffic jam.
After i change my security pass, proceed to level 2 warehouse and press the door bell while waiting for people to open the door.

I walked in after the door has been opened, saw Thomas.
He told me that the batch of goods have arrived so he bring me to the area and ask me to wait.
After a few minutes, i saw Desmond, the IDS engineer came.
He asked if i am the attachment student, and we chatted.

Desmond is an engineer doing project and he came to the warehouse because Stephen asked him to come and also his morning time slot is free so came to help me stock check.


In total we assembled 16 equipments, Pagewriter Trim3.
It is very similar to yesterday's pagewriter but its smaller.
It was about 3pm when we finished everything so i have nothing to do and i asked him if i can follow him to do his service call.
Desmond called office to check if there is still anything for me, then he bring me to KKH operation theater to change the OT light's screws as they were all worn out.

Attachment Day 24

I was asked to report to the office since Tham is on leave today. As usual, take the shuttle bus from jurong east MRT at 745am and reach tuas office at about 815am, which is still very early and no sign of anyone yet.

I waited for Mr ong to come and he assign some paperwork to me which will last me till lunch time. He said i'm suppose to follow Stephen to the warehouse to stock check some equipments.

okay after lunch i waited for Stephen a while and he drove me to toh guan warehouse. The warehouse is the place where all the imported goods are store and pack before they are deliver to various hospitals.

Today we unpacked 11 pagewriter and assemble them to test out if they are in working condition. Mr ong called and ask me to report to warehouse in the morning tomorrow for more unpacking and assembling. =)




(the equipment i unpack out.. =P )

wed


went to cycle this evening...






( Having fun at fren's place cleaning and servicing bike !)


(what happen to my wife ! arghh !! I broke it !!!!)

i am darn darn sad now !
but save money buy new fork already ! sob !

Attachment Day 23
Wednesday

today morning i went CGH, meeting Tham at CGH.
I reach at 10am sharp, and he called me, saying that he might be late as he is still in the office.
So i suggested to wait and i did not aspect him to call me back at 11am saying that he cannot make it already. He ask me to go for lunch myself and meet him at CGH at 2pm.

So i went for lunch and back at 215pm.
He called me saying that he will meet me at 3pm to go to the BME to collect the overdue PM list for CGH.

Waited for him till 330pm and he came out from inside the building.
He was wearing formal attire, telling me that i can go home and have an early rest today.
After that i asked him if he was going other hospitals for servicing, he replied that he is going SGH for a service call and told me off.

But i suggested that he dropped me at SGH then i took MRT home its nearer so i went up his car. He refused to let me follow him for the service call as his reason was that it was just a simple job.

I had nothing to say but to go home after long waiting for him.


haiz....



i hate him ! his one really weird guy !

Attachment Day 22
Tuesday

Today morning meet Tham at SGH.
Our meeting was 830am and when i reach at 830am i sms him informing him that i have reach.
He replied that he is having breakfast so ask me to wait for a while.
Waited for him till about 850am while reading the free newspaper.

In SGH the whole day today, went to Urology to service a defib and a monitor.
I did the same as what he tells me to do, paperwork again.

First step is to tear down the PM sticker and make sure it is due and is on our October PM list.
Then i will write the report and he will service the machine.

Next we went to ECCU and A&E department to service five patient monitors of V26 model.

After lunch, i waited for him outside ward56B and we did four MP50 patient monitor.

Realised we still have a bit of time then we went to PERINA to do another two Fetal monitors for room1 and room4.

thats all for tuesday



no pics today.. too busy..

LOL...

SMILEZ !

tml CGH !

Attachment Day 21
Monday
01 Oct '07

From today onwards, i'm attach to another engineer named Tham for one month. He is from IDS and is working on Phillips products. And he is a really busy person as he had to do a lot of PM services every month.

First day attach to him we went SGH to kick off the start of the month schedule. Once reach SGH, i exchange the contractor pass from BME department, we proceed to National Heart Centre.

The difference of Tham and William is that Tham carries all his testers equipment along with him in a single trolley around. We went to level two of NHC (National Heart Centre) to service ECG machine, pagewriter. Tham keep asking me to do the paperwork work for him as he has a lot of machines to do and so i followed.

Did six Pagewriter from room to room and in between we have to wait for the nurse to show us the room. Lunchtime we had our lunch just at level one at NHC and after that we went back to work.

after which we went to the labour ward call PERINA to service Fetal monitor in room2.

Next Tham bring me to some isolated wards ward 11 and ward 12 to service some defibrillator across the street isolate from those main buildings. He say these two wards are for the SARS patient. The defib is placed at the nurse counter so Tham ask me to sit down and do my paperwork again. He is just too busy to teach me.

We did two defib and it was 530pm.

pics:



(His trolley! and i'm the one pulling it ! F5 !)


(Pagewriter ECG machine thats take ur heart waveform)


(the paperwork i wrote)


(Fetal Monitor : the same as Patient monitor just that its older version or different brand)


(defribrillator ! commonly seen on TV but have u seen one in front of u ? xD)

JIAQUAN
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Ngee Ann Poly
Biomedical engineering yr3

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