Month: July 2007

Troubleshooting: The Thought Process

Troubleshooting medical devices and systems is at the very core of what our jobs are in hospitals and field service. Most of us have developed a system over the course of our careers for troubleshooting that combines various techniques that we constantly need to upgrade. This becomes a problem during certification testing, because your troubleshooting […]

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Up Front: Advocating for Patient Safety

  In late June 2007, the Joint Commission announced its 2008 National Patient Safety Goals and Requirements that apply to the nearly 15,000 Joint Commission-accredited and certified health care organizations and programs. The development and annual updating of these goals is overseen by an expert panel that includes patient safety experts, nurses, physicians, pharmacists, risk […]

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A Clean Bill of Health for Endoscopes

Endoscopes are contradictions. Designed to simplify surgical procedures, the instruments themselves are complex. They look sturdy—blame the stainless steel body—but they are actually as delicate as the thin glass rods found inside. This means breakage is just as likely to occur—perhaps even more so—when they are not being used for a procedure. “One of the […]

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