What's In Your Toolkit as a Medical Equipment Technician?

Whether it’s calibration tools or diagnostic software, show us what you rely on.

On the ‘diagnostic software’ side, the single thing that consistently saves me time is carrying an FTDI-based USB-to-RS232 with a tiny null-modem, since a lot of legacy pumps and monitors still expect serial for logs or firmware. Do you still run into serial-only gear at your site? If you hate dongles, a laptop with a native COM port works just as well and avoids flaky chipsets.

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