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How to Improve Safety Critical Systems Standards

Abstract: An effective standard for safety critical software systems is one that should help both developers and assessors of such systems. For developers it should be clear what is required in order to conform to the standard, while for assessors it should be possible to determine objectively compliance to the standard. The existing set of standards do not pass this basic quality test. We prov...

An Audit of Perioperative Antimicrobial Prophylaxis: Time to Take Action

Electrical safety standards for electrocardiographic apparatus.

IN 1972, the Committee on Electrocardiography of the American Heart Association (AHA) first published recommendations dealing with electrical safety in electrocardiographic (ECG) and vectorcardiographic (VCG) instruments.' These specifications were restated in slightly altered form in 1975.2 To our knowledge, practically all manufacturers of ECG equipment sold in the United States now follow th...

Let’s take Laser safety seriously

Nowadays laser is extensively used in various industrial, communicative, medical, and other fields. Using laser in medicine has enabled physicians to perform the most accurate and finest operations within few minutes. Non-observance of safety points during laser performance could be seriously harmful for the medical staff and the patient. Therefore, in order to prevent the possible damage of th...

Early action advisable to prepare for new alarm safety standards.

1 Early action advisable to prepare for new alarm safety standards Walk into any patient care unit—whether preoperative, intraoperative, or postoperative—and you will hear numerous alarm signals. Some are signaling a medical necessity, but many are false alarm noises that do not require action. Health care workers can hear several hundred alarm signals per patient per day, which may cause alarm...