Clinical engineering patient safety

Enhancing patient safety The role of clinical engineering, white paper, American College of Clinical Engineering, Plymouth Meeting, Pa. 200. ... 

Hyndman, B., H., A Thirty-Two Year Perspective on a Clinical Engineer s Contribution to Patient Safety, Proceedings of the Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology, 2007, pp. 710-716. 

Evaluate. Clinical engineers evaluate equipment before it is purchased to ensure it meets standards of current patient care and safety. They may make recommendations on the equipment a health care system should purchase to provide patients with cutting-edge care. They may manage or coordinate service contracts or purchase negotiations and... 

As health care technology becomes more and more complex and complicated, a clinical engineer can act as a translator between information systems, medical equipment, and the patient. Clinical engineers bring creativity, curiosity, and analytical, communication, and problem-solving skills to the medical field. They may serve on health care system-wide committees that relate to process and performance improvement, quality control and inspection, new technology purchases, and patient safety. 

Use of software in medical devices, especially in life-critical and clinical settings, is beginning and will increase in the future. In practice, as well as artificial hearts, a robotic surgery system is another notable example where software has direct and immediate impact on a patient s life. Such trends, however, will surely increase and appear to be irreversible. In order to ensure the safe operation of such devices, researchers in the software engineering and software safety communities need to work more closely with domain experts. The research reported in this paper could... 

If the safety and validation of simultaneous treatment will be guaranteed, it contributes to the clinical application for the many indicated patients. It saves the time and bed control and improves the patients quality of life (QOL)-The clinical with the handmade circuit has been reported. However, there is not the report of the safe inspection from an aspect of the engineering [1], We developed the circuit for the simultaneous treatment of apheresis and hemodialysis treatment. The flow volumes and pressures in some points in the circuit were determined to ensure the safety of this circuit. 

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