Introduction The unique Tanzania Centre for Orthopaedic Technologists (TATCOT) for the English speaking countries in Africa, celebrated its 10th anniversary in 1991. The German Technical Co-operation Agency (GTZ) laid the foundation stone of this remarkable development in Orthopaedic Technology on the 26th August, 1981 with the arrival of the first two expatriate teachers. The decision of the M...

In medicine, there are various divisions and professions. One of these is medical technology. Medical technology is the exercise of scientific and technical functions in medical laboratories. This can also be referred to as biomedical science. Medical technologists used various products in the diagnosis and disease treatment. This involves the preparation and analysis of body tissues, fluids an...

While process technologists are obsessed to follow Moore’s curve down to nanoscale dimensions, design technologists are confronted with gigascale complexity. On the other hand, post-PC and post dotcom products require zero cost, zero energy yet software programmable novel system architectures to be sold in huge volumes and to be designed in exponentially decreasing time. How do we cope with the...

The skill and work habits of the pulmonary function technologist are central to the quality of patient testing. Pulmonary function technologists should be chosen carefully. The pulmonary function technologists must be intelligent, conscientious, and possess critical thinking skills. Studies are needed to better identify which kinds of personality traits correlate with superior job performance ...

Spoken and written languages, despite their different nature and function in human society, have often been in conflicts rather than in harmony for centuries. Despite the incessant efforts made by phoneticians, linguists, speech therapists and more recently speech technologists to describe the interrelations and relative merits of written and spoken languages, the written language still enjoys ...

patients receiving diagnostic doses of radiopharmaceuticals become a source of contamination and exposure for those who come in contact with them, such as nuclear medicine technologists, relatives and nurses. therefore, the measurement of external radiation dose from these patients is necessary. in this study, the dose rates at distances of 10, 50 and 100cm from 70 patients who received diagnos...

The aim of this study was to determine the prevalence of musculoskeletal complaints among X-ray technologists and to examine their relationship with physical and psychosocial factors. A cross-sectional study was performed in 2006 among 203 X-ray technologists working in 13 hospitals in the Apulia region of southern Italy. A questionnaire was used to collect data on personal characteristics, phy...

T h i s document, r e f e r r e d t o a s the Guide, h a s come about from the hard work o v e r the p a s t two y e a r s o f many t a l e n t e d i n d i v i d u a l s who a r e p r o f e s s i o n a l l y i n v o l v e d w i t h radon. T h e Guide s t a r t e d i n a r e a l e s t a t e t e s t i n g commit tee o f the Eas t e rn Pennsylvania Chapter o f AARST* The coaunl t teeOs y e a r and...