So, week 3 has finally come to a close. It was a very interesting one with the usual success of fixing medical equipment. We now have gotten to a rate of about 9 per week. As of now, the count is 29 but more is certainly achievable before the the next week is over. We have fixed all sorts of equipment this week ranging from a necessary printer to 3 or four ekg machines. We even employed this new technique of creating ekg electrode pads out of the plastic seal from glass coke bottles, a nickle sewing clip, and some medical tape. It was very cool when we got to try this out on a patient to see beautiful and clear waves on the EKG monitor. The nurses very very appreciative. They even then decided to give us more equipment hidden away from most to see. We got handed another ekg which we are currently working on as well as a pulse oximeter that had a finicky power switch. We opened up the pulse oximeter and tightened the connections to get a new working oximeter. Success! In other news, we are working on our secondary project where we helping the hospital with a goverment ordered inventory of fridges by excel. It seems they will get new ones if we help them with this. We are also making instructional videos about using the ekg pads that we learned about. This coming Monday is hospital worker appreciation day so there is no work and a fiesta!
That is all for now.
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