There was no record of the required preventive maintenance being performed.In addition, it appears that the site did not do a functional test before prepping patient to ensure table was properly functioning and ready for next patient, which should be standard procedure per the 5803 owner's manual, section 5.2 pre-procedure/post procedure, which states, "before and after each use of the advanced control system, visually inspect all accessible areas, electrical cords and all movable parts for possible damage that may adversely affect the proper operation of the base.Damaged and effective products should not be used or processed".If a proper functional test would have been conducted before the procedure, and it would have failed lateral roll and gone past the 25-degree maximum and most likely would of went to 90-degree tilt, indicating a failure in the tilt actuator located in the head-end assembly, thus rendering the table unusable before the procedure and to not oprep patients for use on this table until the issue was resolved.
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Integra (b)(4) service technician was called to conduct a pm on a broken 5803 table.When the service tech arrived on site he was advised that while the patient was being prepped for the surgery, a member of the staff had sat on the table and it collapsed under her.There was no injury to the patient or staff member; however, there was the potential for the patient to have been injured if the staff member hadn't sat on the table first.
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