NEW SUCTION EQUIPMENT

Emergency suction equipment: barriers to use and effective interventions

Both investigators had personally experienced situations when they were let down by emergency suctioning equipment on the wards: due to either lack of, or operator inability to use, equipment. Failings in emergency suction have been highlighted in a recent National Patient Safety Agency signal. We focused on improving the usability of cardiac arrest trolley suction: a complex process involving ...

Buying New Equipment!

T design of management equipment for sports and ornamental turf and for porous playing surfaces poses a problem for engineers, calling for precision results with a minimum of working components subject to wear and adjustment and to damage by use, weather, etc. T hese overall requirements can be met successfully and commercially only by simple principles, by robust construction without undue wei...

Finger-triggered portable PDMS suction cup for equipment-free microfluidic pumping

This study presents a finger-triggered portable polydimethylsiloxane suction cup that enables equipment-free microfluidic pumping. The key feature of this method is that its operation only involves a “pressing-and-releasing” action for the cup placed at the outlet of a microfluidic device, which transports the fluid at the inlet toward the outlet through a microchannel. This method is simple, b...

New Equipment and Devices for Therapeutic Purpose

Testing New Alarms for Medical Electrical Equipment

This paper reports the first of several tests of new auditory alarms originally proposed by Block et al. [1] and formalized in IEC 60601-1-8 for use in medical electrical equipment. We test whether participants who are supplied with the IEC-recommended mnemonics while learning label-alarm associations can more accurately identify the alarms after short periods of learning. Results for 18 partic...