Purchasing new equipment.

Purchasing equipment for an eye unit

Who is responsible? The manager of the eye care unit is ultimately responsible for ensuring that equipment and supplies are adequate. However, the manager may delegate a member of the team to act as the ‘equipment person’. This person will have some responsibilities for ordering and will also be responsible for keeping the equipment inventory up to date. The inventory should contain information...

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...

Purchasing of medical equipment in public hospitals: the mini-HTA tool.

The mini-health technology assessment (HTA) tool is valuable in assessing the quality of decisions regarding health technology management in South African public hospitals. The tool demonstrates the needs for improved decision-making and for developing an appropriate, customised instrument to support decision makers regarding medical device management. Health technology in South Africa has c...

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...