The term 'ultrapure water' is a common way to define water used for on-line treatments: it refers to the absence of chemical, organic and microbiological contamination. To be more accurate in definition, every known and potential contaminant has to be fixed at its limit value. AAMI recommendations and various Pharmacopoeias have set limits for dialysate based on traditional dialysis treatments,...

Results: The three recorders passed the before-use interdevice variability assessment, after which 85% of inflations recorded with these devices during the in-use phase gave valid readings, and the three devices subsequently passed the after-use interdevice variability assessment. The main validation test was carried out in 86 subjects with a wide range of pressures, the results being analysed ...

As technology advances, so does the complexity of reusable medical devices. This creates greater challenges for cleaning, disinfecting, and sterilizing devices between patient uses. There is increasing concern from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and the reusable device industry that inadequately reprocessed devices are contributing to infections acquired in hospitals and other heal...

Results: The three recorders passed the before-use interdevice variability assessment, after which 84% of inflations recorded with these devices during the in-use phase gave valid readings, and the three devices subsequently passed the after-use interdevice variability assessment. The main validation test was carried out on one device in 86 subjects with a wide range of pressures, the results b...

Ambulatory blood pressure measurement (ABPM) Age and ambulatory blood pressure has passed from research to clinical practice and is measurement now accepted as a valuable procedure in the clinical management of hypertension [1j21. ABPM may Miller et al. [19] compared simultaneous measurehave a special role in the management of hyperments from the Accutracker II ambulatory monitor tension in the...

An extraction of medical knowledge from cardiological data is proposed in this work, it is based on relevant intelligent method called fuzzy decision tree. It could lead to increase understanding the cause of various abnormal beats in cardiac activity, leading to a better medical diagnosis. The performance of this technique is evaluated on the MIT-BIH Arrhythmia Database following the AAMI reco...

Two years ago, more than 300 people gathered outside Washington, D.C. to tackle one of the most pressing challenges in healthcare— making infusion devices and systems safer. What’s changed? The AAMI/FDA Infusion Device Summit in October of 2010 has proven to be a catalyst for healthcare professionals who care about one of the most important safety issues of our time— infusing patients safely. T...

In autumn 1993, AAMI/ST/WG 63, Sterilization Residuals Working Group undertook the task of studying factors involved in determining the amount of residual ethylene oxide in medical devices after sterilization and developing a protocol for controlling the relevant variables. The protocol was evaluated by conducting a round robin study consisting of 8 participating laboratories from around the co...

It was with interest that we read the recent article concerning the ‘International Protocol’Fa newly proposed protocol for the validation of automated blood pressure measuring devices [1]. The objective of this new protocol was to simplify the most widely used protocols currently available, namely the British Hypertension Society (BHS) protocol 1993 and the protocol of the Association for the A...