Equipment safety checks

A Study on Performance and Safety Tests of Defibrillator Equipment

Introduction: Nowadays, more than 10,000 different types of medical devices can be found in hospitals. This way, medical electrical equipment is being employed in a wide variety of fields in medical sciences with different physiological effects and measurements. Hospitals and medical centers must ensure that their critical medical devices are safe, accurate, reliable and operational at the requ...

A Study on Performance and Safety Tests of Electrosurgical Equipment

Introduction: Modern medicine employs a wide variety of instruments with different physiological effects and measurements. Periodic verifications are routinely used in legal metrology for industrial measuring instruments. The correct operation of electrosurgical generators is essential to ensure patient’s safety and management of the risks associated with the use of high and low frequency ele...

Personal protective equipment. Fall-arrest equipment--what price safety?

Prescriptive Safety-Checks through Automated Proofs for Control-Flow Integrity

Embedded software today is pervasive: they can be found everywhere, from coffee makers and medical devices, to cars and aircraft. Embedded software today is also open and connected to the Internet, exposing them to external attacks that can cause its Control-Flow Integrity (CFI) to be violated. Control-Flow Integrity is an important safety property of software, which ensures that the behavior o...

Adequacy of preoperative safety checks of the Bain breathing system.

Effects of posture and baricity on spinal anaesthesia with 0.5% bupivacaine 5 ml. Spinal anaesthesia with 0.5 % bupivacaine 3 ml: comparison of plain and hyperbaric solutions administered to seated patients. POSTDURAL PUNCTURE HEADACHE Sir,—We read with interest the article by Lynch and colleagues [1] comparing the incidence of postdural puncture headaches (PDPH) associated with 22-gauge and 25...