Field note: accessories go missing first
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FromThe Supply Desk
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Devices rarely disappear. Their accessories constantly do. The SpO2 probe wanders to another ward, the charger stays in the room that moved, the one special cable retires into a drawer — and a working device becomes a paperweight that inventories still count as functional.
The defenses are cheap: label accessories with their parent device's ID, store them with the device or in one accounted place, include them on the inventory line, and check them at every PM touch. Hospitals that adopt 'the accessory is part of the device' as policy recover capacity they already owned — which remains the best procurement deal in healthcare.
