While operating we smelled a burning smell, we checked the patient and he was fine, so we called the charge nurses to come help us search the room to locate the source.While searching, we found the smell to be heavy in the area around the surgical field and noticed that the suction was powered off and had been on throughout the case.We called biomed and he came to the room and removed the suction from the operating room.Upon inspection biomed found the circuit board to be melted and burnt.Manufacturer response for waste management system, (brand not provided) (per site reporter).Troubleshooting-- i was called to operating room 7 for a strong burning smell and what they said was smoke.When i got in the room we were able to unplug the equipment.The doctor then stated he needed suction.We plugged the neptune back in and the power would not come back on.We found the smell to be coming from the neptune.I took the device back to my shop where i was able to disassemble the neptune.I found that the power board had fuse on it that was burned/melted.This is a common issue with the neptunes.I contacted stryker rep to inform him of the issue.I was also told by the rep that stryker engineers are aware of the issue and working on a fix.Contacted vendor-- spoke with vendor.They will be in tomorrow to replace the board.Repaired by vendor.
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