Patient environment

Nakanishi, Y. et al., Respiratory involvement and immune status in Yusho patients, Environ. Health Perspect., 59, 31, 1985. 

Nakanishi, Y., Shigematsu, N., Kurita, Y., Matsuba, K., Hanegae, H., Ishimaru, S., Kawazoe, Y., 1985. Respiratory involvement and immune status in Yusho patients. Environ. Health Perspect. 59, 31-36. 

Rappe C, Nygren M, Buser H, et al. 1983. Identification of polychlorinated dioxins (PCDDs) and dibenzofurans (PCDFs) in human samples, occupational exposure and Yusho patients. Environ Sci Res 26 241-253. 

Lu Y-C, Wu Y-C. 1985. Clinical findings and immunological abnormalities in Yu-Cheng patients. Environ Health Perspect 59 17-29. 

Special safety precautions are taken for electromedical equipment and its use in the patient environment and in physical contact with the patient. Safety is regulated by international standards such as (lEC-60601 2005) used in Table 10.2. 

Special safety precautions are taken for electromedical equipment. Both patient and operator safety is considered (as well as damage of property). Electromedical equipment is equipment situated in the patient environment and is in physical contact with the patient, or which can deliver energy (electrical, mechanical, or radiation) to the patient from a distance. Equipment for in vitro diagnosis is also important for patient safety with respect to correct diagnostic answers, but as long as it is not in the patient environment, the safety aspects are different. 

Figure 10.36 A nonelectromedical device (B) within the patient environment. According to...

Contact precautions reduce the risk of transmission of epidemiologically important microorganisms by direct or indirect contact. Direct contact transmission involves skin-to-skin contact or the physical transfer of microorganisms to a susceptible host. This can occur when caregivers turn patients, bathe patients, or perform other patient-related activities with physical contact. Direct contact transmission can also occur between patients. Indirect contact transmission involves contact of a susceptible host with a contaminated object or surface in the patient environment. Contact precautions apply to specific patients with a known or suspected infection with... 

Furness, D.A. LEED rules studied for health care Green Building Council focusing on benefits to patients, environment. North Bay Business Journal. December 15, 2008. Available at http //www.northbay businessjoumal. 

For examples, in aircraft, software is one critical component, and there is wide reuse of legacy software in medical applications, software is the last control against potential damage to the user, patient, environment, and reuse is applied rarely. Configurability is broad in medical systems, much narrower for flying systems. 

Tung, PCBs, PCQs and PCDFs in blood of Yusho and Yu-Cheng patients. Environ. Ffealth ferspect. 59 73 (1985). 

Aggressive treatment of depression may increase the likelihood of weaning from prolonged ventilation (121,122). Biofeedback, improved patients environment, communication and mobility, and specialized weaning centers have been used to decrease psychological problems in ventilated patients (34,123-126). 

Ghanei, M., Hosseini, A.R., Arabbaferani, Z., 2005. Evaluation of chronic cough in chemical chronic bronchitis patients. Environ. Toxicol. Pharmacol. 20 (1), 6-10. 

Table 3.5.3. Choice of screening panel antigens extracts involved in hypersensitivity pneumonitis (HP) for serology tests without specific microbiologic or activity information about patient environment. Centre INJMRC National Jewish Medical Research Center, Centre II OHCK Finnish Institute of Occupational Health (Kuopio), Centre III UHB University Hospital of Besan on, Z For HP screening in centre I...

Antigens from patient environment (total extracts and microorganism extracts) for all unusual situations for the three centres... 

It s time for an organized focus on vigilance in patient environments. 

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