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Manual Reference
ZOLL Propaq MD Operator's Guide, document 9650-1806-12 Rev. B, Chapter 25; and ZOLL Propaq MD Service Manual, document 9650-0801-01 Rev. A, Chapter 1. The publicly available service manual is an older revision. Before performing PM, obtain or confirm the latest ZOLL service information for the unit's serial number, software, military or civilian configuration, installed options, and region.
Manufacturer Recommendation / AEM Status
Manufacturer-listed schedule
- Perform the operator inspection and tests daily or at each shift change so the unit remains ready for immediate use.
- Authorized personnel must complete performance and calibration testing at regularly scheduled intervals that do not exceed one year.
- Perform annual NIBP and EtCO2 calibration work when those modules are installed, using the current service procedure.
- Run the applicable functional tests after a module is repaired and operational tests at regular intervals to supplement the unit's automatic readiness testing.
- Maintain a service log that supports calibration, certification, and other periodic requirements.
AEM note
This workflow follows the manufacturer's daily/shift and maximum one-year performance/calibration schedule. A facility interval that changes that schedule, or omission of an applicable test, must be supported by the facility's approved AEM program, risk assessment, service history, regulatory requirements, and current ZOLL instructions. Safety-critical defibrillation, synchronized cardioversion, pacing, alarm, monitoring, and leakage-current tests must not be skipped merely because a function is rarely used.
What This PM Procedure Covers
This procedure covers identity and service history, ruggedized enclosure and accessories, batteries and external power, readiness and operational checks, treatment records, ECG, defibrillation, synchronized cardioversion, pacing, NIBP, EtCO2, installed monitoring options, communications, advanced feedback options, leakage current, final readiness, and CMMS documentation. Perform tests applicable to the installed configuration and document every omission as not equipped or not applicable.
Required Tools and Equipment
- Current configuration-specific Propaq MD operator guide, current service manual, annual checklist, approved service updates, and facility PM form
- Calibrated defibrillator/pacer analyzer, ECG simulator, and approved ZOLL therapy/test cable or adapter
- Calibrated NIBP simulator/manometer, dual-lumen hose, and suitable cuff or current ZOLL test fixture
- Approved 5% CO2 calibration gas, regulator, sampling line, and airway adapter when EtCO2 is installed
- Compatible SpO2 or SpO2/SpCO/SpMet/SpHb test equipment when installed
- IBP and temperature simulator with appropriate cables when installed
- Calibrated electrical-safety/leakage-current analyzer and every therapy accessory required by the current procedure
- Known-good charged SurePower II battery, approved external power/charger, printer paper, USB device, network access, paddles, CPR feedback accessories, and ventilation accessories as applicable
- Approved cleaner, soft cloth, inspection tools, and current manufacturer-approved replacement parts as needed
Step-by-Step PM Procedure
1. Remove the Unit From Clinical Use
Action: Confirm the Propaq MD is not connected to a patient, provide a replacement transport monitor/defibrillator, disconnect disposable patient accessories, and follow facility cleaning and infection-control requirements.
Expected outcome: The unit is safely controlled for service and an immediately available replacement covers clinical operations.
2. Verify Identity, Configuration, and History
Action: Record asset tag, serial number, software version, civilian or military configuration, installed monitoring and therapy options, location, battery identity, and manual revisions. Review readiness logs, self-test results, event logs, prior repairs, calibrations, open corrective work, recalls, and current ZOLL service communications.
Expected outcome: The exact configuration is identified and all applicable tests, certifications, updates, and follow-up actions are known.
3. Inspect the Ruggedized System
Action: Inspect the enclosure, bumpers, handle, display, selector and keys, indicators, speaker openings, printer, labels, seals, vents, battery bay and contacts, external-power connector and supply, USB/communication ports, patient connectors, cables, strain reliefs, therapy cable, pads connector, paddles, sensors, cuffs, hoses, mounting/transport hardware, bags, and protective accessories. Clean only by the current operator instructions.
Expected outcome: The system is clean, complete, securely assembled, correctly labeled, and free of cracks, deformation, contamination, corrosion, fluid entry, loose parts, obstructed vents, bent pins, exposed conductors, and damaged transport accessories.
4. Check Batteries, Charger, and External Power
Action: Inspect the SurePower II battery and charger status, verify correct seating and recognition, operate from battery and the approved external source, confirm charging indications, and check source transfer without an unintended shutdown. Review battery age, service history, capacity information, and storage condition; rotate and recharge packs using current ZOLL guidance.
Expected outcome: The Propaq MD powers reliably from each intended source, recognizes and charges the battery, transfers power normally, and displays no unresolved battery, charger, or external-power fault.
5. Verify Readiness and Built-In Operation
Action: Check the readiness indicator and automatic self-test history. Perform the current daily/shift checkout and all operational tests required for the annual service, including keys/controls, display, LEDs, audible indicators, printer, battery, fan, and USB functions as applicable.
Expected outcome: Readiness shows the ready condition, startup completes without an unresolved fault, and every applicable operational test passes.
6. Verify Treatment Reports and Data
Action: Create representative test events, verify the treatment summary/report, code markers, date/time, printer, record storage, USB transfer, and required network transmission using only facility-approved test destinations.
Expected outcome: Events are correctly recorded and time-stamped, printed output is legible, and required records can be retrieved, exported, or transmitted.
7. Test ECG, Heart Rate, and Alarms
Action: Connect a calibrated ECG simulator and exercise all supplied 3-, 5-, and 12-lead cables, lead selections, and installed ECG functions. Verify waveform quality, lead-off response, displayed heart rate, configured alarm limits, visual/audible alarms, and 12-lead acquisition.
Expected outcome: ECG channels and cables display the simulated signal within the current service limits, lead faults are detected, and heart-rate alarms activate and clear correctly.
8. Test Defibrillation and Safe Disarm
Action: Connect the therapy cable or paddles to a calibrated analyzer with approved adapters. Perform the service-manual shock test at every specified energy point and verify charge time, selected/delivered energy, shock controls and indicators, event recording, and the charged timeout/internal-disarm sequence. Never discharge into an open circuit or unauthorized load.
Expected outcome: The unit charges, announces readiness, delivers energy within the current ZOLL tolerance, records the event, and disarms safely when commanded or timed out.
9. Test Synchronized Cardioversion
Action: Apply the service-manual ECG signal, enable Sync, verify R-wave markers, charge, and measure R-wave-to-shock delay with the analyzer.
Expected outcome: Sync mode and markers operate correctly and shock timing meets the current service-manual limit.
10. Test External Pacing, If Equipped
Action: Use the analyzer and approved therapy connection to test the specified low- and high-rate/output points, current amplitude, pulse width, demand behavior, controls, indicators, and pacing alarms. Do not interpret simulator results as clinical capture.
Expected outcome: Pacer rate, current, pulse width, demand response, controls, indicators, and alarms meet the current ZOLL limits at every required point.
11. Perform Annual NIBP Calibration and Pneumatic Tests, If Equipped
Action: Inspect cuff, hose, connector, and pneumatic path. Complete the current annual calibration check plus leak, inflation, deflation, overpressure/safety, and functional measurement tests. Use every required pressure point and record both primary and safety-transducer readings.
Expected outcome: Both transducers meet current calibration tolerance, the pneumatic system passes leak and timing requirements, safety behavior is correct, and simulated measurements meet the current service limits.
12. Perform Annual EtCO2 Calibration and Tests, If Equipped
Action: Confirm date/time, inspect the sampling connection and accessories, and complete the annual EtCO2 calibration/check and functional test with approved 5% CO2 gas and sampling hardware. Follow the current instructions for calibration status and due-date handling.
Expected outcome: Calibration and verification complete successfully, the measured gas result meets the current manual range, and the capnogram/numeric response is normal without a sampling fault.
13. Test Other Monitoring Options
Action: As equipped, complete current ZOLL tests for SpO2, SpCO, SpMet, SpHb and related Masimo parameters, IBP, temperature, and respiration using compatible calibrated simulators, cables, and sensors. Exercise every installed channel and relevant alarm.
Expected outcome: Each installed parameter and channel displays the applied value within current tolerance and produces the expected alarm and disconnect response.
14. Test Communications and Feedback Options
Action: As configured, test Wi-Fi, cellular, Ethernet, Bluetooth, report/log transmission, audio recording, CPR feedback, Real BVM Help, USB, and paddles using the current procedure and facility-approved destinations.
Expected outcome: Each installed communication, recording, ventilation-feedback, CPR-feedback, transfer, and paddle function completes its prescribed test without unresolved faults.
15. Perform Leakage-Current Testing
Action: Test the complete configured unit and the required ECG, multifunction cable, external/internal paddles, and anterior/posterior therapy accessories at the installation line voltage and frequency. Use the latest ZOLL method and limits rather than copying values from an obsolete manual. Record every condition and accessory tested.
Expected outcome: All patient, applied-part, chassis/earth, normal-condition, and single-fault measurements required by the current procedure remain within documented limits.
16. Restore and Return to Service
Action: Remove test equipment, reinstall approved accessories and a charged battery, restore facility settings and communications, confirm date/time, clear only authorized test records, repeat final startup/readiness and configured-system checks, and document readings, parts, corrective work, and disposition.
Expected outcome: The Propaq MD is complete, clean, charged, configured, transport-ready, and either returned to service with traceable results or clearly removed from service.
Electrical Safety Testing
Use the latest configuration-specific ZOLL procedure, analyzer instructions, installation line voltage/frequency, and facility electrical-safety policy. The publicly accessible Rev. A service manual is not sufficient reason to reuse an older numeric limit without confirming it remains current.
Electrical-safety analyzer / serial / calibration due:
Result =
Protective-earth or ground resistance, if required:
Current service-manual or facility limit =
Result in ohms =
Pass / Fail =
ECG patient leakage:
Normal-condition limit / result =
Single-fault limit / result =
Mains-on-applied-part limit / result =
Pass / Fail =
Therapy accessory leakage:
Accessory tested =
Normal-condition limit / result =
Single-fault limit / result =
Mains-on-applied-part limit / result =
Pass / Fail =
Earth or chassis leakage, when required:
Limit / result =
Pass / Fail =
Pass / Fail Criteria
Pass
- Identity, latest service information, history, ruggedized enclosure, labels, transport accessories, battery, charger, and external power are acceptable
- Readiness indicator, automatic self-tests, controls, display, audio, alarms, printer, fan, records, and required operational tests pass
- ECG, defibrillator output, charge/disarm, synchronized cardioversion, and pacing meet current ZOLL limits
- Annual NIBP and EtCO2 calibration work passes when equipped
- All installed oxygenation, capnography, pressure, temperature, communications, recording, CPR/ventilation feedback, transfer, and paddle functions pass as applicable
- Every required electrical-safety measurement meets the documented current limit
- No unresolved readiness, service, battery, therapy, monitoring, alarm, communications, or electrical-safety fault remains
Remove From Service
- Readiness/self-test, defibrillation, synchronization, pacing, alarm, battery/power, monitoring, calibration, or electrical-safety testing fails
- The enclosure, bumper, power path, patient connection, therapy cable, paddle, battery, display/control, accessory, or transport mounting is damaged or contaminated in a way that could affect safe use
- Delivered energy or pacing output is outside tolerance, safe disarm fails, or a safety-critical indication is unreliable
- An annual NIBP or EtCO2 requirement cannot be completed or does not pass
- A current service procedure, approved adapter/accessory, calibrated test device, qualified technician, required update, or corrective action is unavailable
- Any unresolved condition could delay, prevent, mistime, or misdocument emergency monitoring or therapy during transport
Copy/Paste CMMS Work Order Procedure
This is transport emergency-therapy equipment. Never test it while connected to a patient, discharge it into an unauthorized load, or return it to service with an incomplete or failed safety-critical test.