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The heed administered to the patients depends on feasibility and utilization of medical equipment. The quality of care rests on proper conservation and employment of medical equipment. The intention of the study is to calculate utilization rate of medical equipment and escalating competence over defeating the factors which influence the utilization of equipment in Surgical Intensive Care Unit (SICU). Observational study was conducted at one of the leading hospitals in south zone of Tamilnadu in the year of 2020. All the equipment in Surgical Intensive Care Unit have Annual Maintenance Contract (AMC) & Contractual Maintenance Contract (CMC). One by fourth of the equipment in SICU is underutilized. Medical equipment utilization paves the way to attain maximal return on wealth invested. Each and every equipment present in healthcare institutions has on urge to be entirely and properly utilized followed by periodical Preventive Maintenance periodically. In this paper, it is evident that, overall progress of heed was favorable, at the same time, there were few grey areas of negligible utilization of resources.