A TEE probe's bending section cannot report its own condition. What the surface, the controls, the angles and the bending rubber each can and cannot tell you.
A specification sheet interleaves two kinds of fact and presents them in the same format: what the instrument is, and which version of it you have. This is how the parameters group, where the design trade-offs are documented, and where the category boundaries actually fall.
A flexible endoscope can pass its leak test and still be holding liquid. The test asks whether air escapes; it does not ask whether water got in. This is how the two answers come apart, where the liquid goes next, and the one step that cannot be undone.
A pediatric phased array probe datasheet cannot tell you whether your console supports it. Console generation, CW hardware, software revision, and preset assignment decide that, and none of them are written on the probe.
Intermittent ultrasound faults are the hardest to diagnose. A field-tested method for reproducing, isolating, and safely returning the system to service.
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