the present study investigated bacterial contamination of radiography equipment in radiology departments of kermanshah university of medical sciences. in this study 196 samples had taken from radiography equipment surfaces of hospitals. the results showed that bacterial contaminations were existed in 91.7% of samples. the highest frequency of bacterial colonies was coagulase negative staphyloco...

The importance of Equipment Maintenance and Replacement strategies addressing system reliability issues in North American power grids is growing. The reliability of these grids typically comprises lightning and weather induced outages, trees, animals and equipment deterioration. Vegetation management, automation (especially in distribution), insulation coordination and system hardening are comm...

The magnitude 7.0 earthquake that struck Haiti on 12 January 2010 devastated the capital city of Port-au-Prince and the surrounding area. The area's hospitals suffered major structural damage and material losses. Project HOPE sought to rebuild the medical equipment and clinical engineering capacity of the country. A team of clinical engineers from the United States of America and Haiti conducte...

Brucella endocarditis is an uncommon but not rare manifestation of brucellosis in our country. We report six adult patients aged 20 to 45 years. Two of our patients were female, and this is the first time that Brucella endocarditis was reported in adult females. In five cases, aortic valve replacement was performed in addition to combined antibiotic therapy. One of them died due to immedia...

OBJECTIVE: Register, classify and assess the degree of technological obsolescence of medical imaging equipment in all health centers (publics and privates) in the Autonomous Communities of Valencia; also analyze the adoption, dissemination and identify the stages of technological equipment. DESIGN: Observational, cross-sectional retrospective. SUBJECT OF STUDY: The medical imaging equipment: Co...

BACKGROUND Medical equipment is closely related to personal health and safety, and this can be of concern to the equipment user. Furthermore, there is much competition among medical equipment manufacturers. Innovative design is the key to success for those enterprises. OBJECTIVE The design of medical equipment usually covers vastly different domains of knowledge. The application of modern des...