According to The Joint Commission (TJC) requirements, “The hospital evaluates new types of equipment before initial use to determine whether they should be included in the inventory. Before initial use of medical equipment on the […]
The absolute best way to learn what the problems are in using medical equipment is simply to be on “first call” 24 hours a day. I do not mean to say that a clinical engineering […]
You may not think “breaking news” on the Friday afternoon before Christmas, but that’s exactly what we faced yesterday thanks to an e-mail. The e-mail came from a federal agency, the Centers for Medicare & […]
I have addressed closed-loop medical devices twice in this blog space: first, with respect to a sedation delivery system and second, with respect to insulin delivery. In both cases, there is a drug delivery device […]
At a recent meeting of AAMI’s Equipment Management Committee, I proposed what I call a “Medical Equipment Serviceability Standard.” The concept is to provide a framework for medical equipment manufactures and vendors to follow when […]
