Safety of Pacemaker Reuse

Safety of pacemaker reuse: a meta-analysis with implications for underserved nations.

BACKGROUND A large disparity in medical health care is clearly evident between developed and underserved nations in the field of cardiac electrophysiology, specifically pacemaker implantation. This study aimed to assess the safety of pacemaker reuse. METHODS AND RESULTS A computerized search from January 1, 1970, to September 1, 2010, identified 18 studies with outcomes of pacemaker reuse. Th...

Safety and efficacy of pacemaker reuse in underdeveloped nations: a case series.

Software Reuse and Safety

This tutorial addresses issues and current practices regarding the important topic of the interaction of software reuse and safety. This topic has become very relevant to modern embedded systems in domains from aerospace to automotive, as new architectures are introduced that encourage the development and use of reusable components. The two sections of the tutorial provide first an introduction...

Safety Case Construction and Reuse using Patterns

This paper presents an approach to the reuse of common structures in safety case arguments through their documentation as ‘Safety Case Patterns’. Problems with the existing, informal and ad-hoc approaches to safety case material reuse are highlighted. We argue that through explicit capture and documentation of reusable safety case elements as patterns, the process of safety case construction an...

Software Reuse in Safety-Critical Systems

ion is one of the fundamental ways that complexity is addressed in software development. “An abstraction denotes the essential characteristics of an object that distinguish it from all other kinds of objects and thus provide crisply defined conceptual boundaries, relative to the perspective of the viewer" [22]. Encapsulation is the process of hiding the design details in the object implementati...