Healthcare providers worldwide are facing an increasingly competitive environment and, in response, are downsizing to reduce costs and improve efficiency. Providers that are unable or unwilling to become more efficient will close. To stay in business, healthcare institutions must consider the cost of medical equipment and plan accordingly. Policies based on sound principles and experience preve...

and could be read with profit by anyone interested in the problem of hydramnios. The Morphologic Manifestations of Uptake of Materials by the Yolk Sac of the Pregnant Rabbit describes how colloidal gold, erythrocytes, cream, and protein, in the form of egg white, are absorbed by the yolk sac. There are several electron microphotographs which are used to illustrate some of the processes. The Dev...

In January 2014, the Nagoya Proton Th erapy Center became the fi rst clinic in Japan to treat patients using proton spot scanning. Th e new system operates alongside two existing treatment rooms that started treating patients in February 2013 and use a passive scattering system. Th is means that the Nagoya Proton Th erapy Center now has three treatment rooms, two with rotating gantries and one ...

Surveys found that large contractors replace approximately 10% of their equipment fleet units annually in North America. Cost minimization model is a commonly accepted method for equipment replacement which helps to identify these equipment units whose total owning and operating cost reaches their minimum point as candidates for replacement. While the model is conceptually clear with the aim of...

UNLABELLED In today's intensive care and surgery, a great number of cables are attached to patients. These cables can make the care and nursing of the patient difficult. Replacing them with wireless communications technology would facilitate patient care. Bluetooth is a modern radio technology developed specifically to replace cables between different pieces of communications equipment. In this...

In every field of our real life situations, we deal with a replacement problem, when some items such as machines, medical equipment, military tank, electric bulb etc. or workers need to replace due to their decreased efficiency, failure or break down. To get a more realistic view of a replacement problem, here, we consider that the capital cost ( C ~ ), scrap value or resale value ( S ~ ), main...

introduction: nowadays, more than 10,000 different types of medical devices can be found in hospitals. this way, medical electrical equipment is being employed in a wide variety of fields in medical sciences with different physiological effects and measurements. hospitals and medical centers must ensure that their critical medical devices are safe, accurate, reliable and operational at the requ...