For the aim of system health management, equipment and components are inspected periodically by manual or automatic systems to monitor their condition and to identify their level of degradation. A decision is then taken regarding replacement or maintenance, and this is based upon an analysis of the monitored data. In this view maintenance is carried out when a measurable machine condition shows...

Introduction Medical equipment is an essential health intervention tool used by nurses for prevention, diagnosis and treatment of disease and for rehabilitation of patients. However, access to functioning medical equipment is a challenge in low- and middle-income countries. The World Health Organization estimated that 50 to 80 percent of medical equipment in developing countries is not working,...

The World Trade Center attack cast some physicians in roles outside their usual hospital practice. The incident required several physicians to function in the dangerous environment of the disaster. Priorities and triage strategies established by the police, emergency medical service and fire departments, while adhered to, required instantaneous modification and upgrading given the vast loss of ...

OBJECTIVE Analysing the fundamental methodological aspects which should be considered when drawing up calibration procedure for electro-medical equipment, thereby permitting international standard-based accreditation of electro-medical metrology laboratories in Colombia. METHODS NTC-ISO-IEC 17025:2005 and GTC-51-based procedures for calibrating electro-medical equipment were implemented and t...

The insulation of the high voltage equipment is deteriorated due to the partial discharges (PDs). So it is required to monitor PDs continuously for prediction of insulation life, replacement time and early indication of outages of HV power equipment. In this work, an optical network is used to detect and measure the PDs in a model transformer.

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES The introduction of extracorporeal circulation in clinical practice was decisive for the development of modern cardiovascular surgery. Addition of new procedures and equipment, however, brings inherent risks and complications. The objective of this report is to describe a malfunction of the oxygenation system and emphasize the importance of the interaction among the me...

45 eregulation of the energy market is bringing about a fundamental change in the way power equipment assets have to be operated, maintained and replaced. High power-equipment performance is key to cost-efficient energy trading and to the success of the efforts being made by utilities to satisfy end-user demand for high power quality . Three main trends are shaping power equipment life manageme...