Despite the increasing popularity of blood pressure (BP) wrist monitors for self-BP measurement at home, device validation and the effect of arm position remains an issue. This study focused on the validation of the Omron HEM-609 wrist BP device, including an evaluation of the impact of arm position and pulse pressure on BP measurement validation. Fifty patients at high risk for cardiovascular ...

A Best Practice Guideline about Dialysis fluid purity was developed under the leadership of the Spanish Society of Nephrology in 2004. The second edition revised Guideline considered new evidences and International Standard. The Guideline has established recommendations for standards for preparing dialysate: water, concentrates and hemodialysis proportioning systems. This Guideline is based on ...

Access to sterilization is a critical need for global healthcare, as it is one of the prerequisites for safe surgical care. Lack of sterilization capability has driven up healthcare infection rates as well as limited access to healthcare, especially in low-resource environments. Sterilization technology has for the most part been static and none of the established sterilization methods has been...

The first objective of this study was to validate the use of water at 85°C ± 5°C to achieve high-level disinfection of a clean-in-place extracorporeal dialysis circuit. The second objective was to demonstrate that applying this hot water method to the entire fluid pathways of a newly designed dialysis instrument, including an integral reverse-osmosis membrane, routinely allowed the production o...

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...

1. Sykes S, ed. Electromagnetic compatibility for medical devices: issues and solutions. Food and Drug Administration/Association for the Advancement of Medical Instrumentation (FDA/ AAMI) Conference; 1995 May 24–25; Anaheim, CA. Arlington (VA): Association for the Advancement of Medical Instrumentation; 1996. 2. Memorandum: electromagnetic compatibility for medical devices: issues and solution...