Biomedical equipment technician training takes upwards of a year to ensure the technicians are fully equipped to handle most types of medical equipment they may see in their career.,
11 CHOLUTECA, Honduras - Biomedical equipment technician (BMET) training takes upwards of a year to ensure the technicians are fully equipped to handle most types of medical equipment they may see in their career.
U.S. Air Force Senior Airman Christopher Fonseca, a BMET with the 21st Medical Group, Perterson-Schriever Garrison, Colorado, is using those skills to ensure medics deployed to Honduras operate with fully-functioning equipment.
“We wouldn t be able to do cases without an anesthesia machine, and they need frequent maintenance,” said U.S. Air Force Lt. Col. Ryan Schaffer, a pediatric anesthesiologist with the 59th Medical Wing, Joint Base San Antonio-Lackland, Texas. “We are very fortunate to have a BMET on the team here. We wouldn’t have made it into our first surgeries without him.”