Don’t Neglect Preventive Maintenance: Protect your Equipment, your Patients, and your Profitability

In the busy day-to-day operations of a veterinary clinic, it’s easy to postpone tasks that are seen as non-urgent. Preventive maintenance of equipment often falls into this category. However, skipping or delaying this maintenance can have serious consequences on patient safety, clinical performance, and even your clinic’s finances.

Here’s why preventive maintenance should never be optional, but a priority.

Patient Safety Comes First

Veterinary equipment – especially those used in anesthesia, monitoring, or intensive care – plays a critical role in animal safety. A failure during a procedure can pose major, even fatal, risks to the patient.

A common example: A blocked anesthesia valve or an undetected oxygen leak can compromise the safe delivery of anesthetic gas, endangering the animal’s life and exposing staff to inhalation risks.

Regular maintenance allows you to:

• Detect defects that are invisible to the naked eye.
• Ensure that alarms and measurements are accurate.
• Prevent critical incidents in the operating room.