IABP Console (Maquet) was active on a patient. The nurse was taking obs and re-zeroed the pressure trace. As she did so, the screen went blank. The pump turned off, stopped ballooning and emitted a constant alarm tone. The power to the pump was switched off and on again to see if this would rectify the problem and it did not.

The service representative was unable to retrieve any fault logs. Due to the age and the cost of a potential Main PCB replacement the IABP was condemned.