Equipment Types

What each class of medical equipment is, what it does, and how the class changes the way it should be bought and serviced..

What each class of medical equipment is, what it does, and how the class changes the way it should be bought and serviced.

33 equipment class articles
Diagnostic, therapeutic and monitoring classes
Class-by-class buying logic

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Classes and what they carry

Class determines the regulatory path, the acceptable failure mode and the service model.

Classes and what they carry

Class determines the regulatory path, the acceptable failure mode and the service model. Two devices with the same price can sit in different classes and need completely different support.

Classes and what they carry: what to check

Within a class, compare on the procedure it must support and the consumables it commits you to. Feature lists are written to differentiate products, not to describe clinical fit.

Choosing within a class

Within a class, compare on the procedure it must support and the consumables it commits you to.

Choosing within a class

Within a class, compare on the procedure it must support and the consumables it commits you to. Feature lists are written to differentiate products, not to describe clinical fit.

Choosing within a class: what to check

Within a class, compare on the procedure it must support and the consumables it commits you to. Feature lists are written to differentiate products, not to describe clinical fit.

Four things that decide equipment types

Each one is settled before the purchase order.

Classes and what they carry

Class determines the regulatory path, the acceptable failure mode and the service model.

Choosing within a class

Within a class, compare on the procedure it must support and the consumables it commits you to.

Where to go next

Adjacent topics in this set. Each one is a hand-written guide to the same depth.

Medical Equipment Guides & Basics

The cluster guide.

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Buying Guides & Comparisons

How to specify, compare and source medical equipment when you are new to the category or to the market..

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Clinic Setup & Equipment Lists

What a clinic needs to equip a room, a department or a new site — the equipment list, the utilities and the running costs..

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All medical equipment guides

The full set of guides, one head term per page.

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Questions about equipment types

Classes and what they carry?

Class determines the regulatory path, the acceptable failure mode and the service model. Two devices with the same price can sit in different classes and need completely different support.

Choosing within a class?

Within a class, compare on the procedure it must support and the consumables it commits you to. Feature lists are written to differentiate products, not to describe clinical fit.

Classes and categories?

Diagnostic, therapeutic, monitoring and life-support classes carry different obligations, service models and failure consequences. Buying class-by-class keeps the specification comparable and the approvals predictable.

What the class changes?

A monitoring device and a life-support device may look similar on a quotation and behave nothing alike in service. Class decides the redundancy, the spares and the training the purchase really requires.

How to buy without a baseline?

Use a specification built from the procedure or the task, not from the vendor brochure. That document is what makes the second quote comparable and the third one negotiable.

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