A hospital is equipped with a variety of specialized biomedical equipment such as defibrillators, resuscitators, surgical lasers, renal units, etc. for clinical purposes, patient treatment, and monitoring. Many of this equipment are mission critical , in that they are directly related to fulfilling the hospital ’s mission and the life and death of patients. It follows that risk management on the maintenance of biomedical equipment was taken on board seriously right at the beginning.