Abstract The provision of medical equipment during pandemics is one the most crucial issues to be dealt with by health managers. This issue has revealed itself in context COVID-19 outbreak many hospitals and centers. Excessive demand for ventilators led a shortage this several Therefore, planning manage critical hospital transfer between different event pandemic can used as quick fix. In paper,...

Chapter 41. Human Factors and Medical Devices Subchapter 41.1. The Use of Human Factors in Reducing Device-related Medical Errors Subchapter 41.2. Refining the Performance of Medical Device Alarms Subchapter 41.3. Equipment Checklists in Anesthesia Chapter 42. Information Transfer Subchapter 42.1. Information Transfer Between Inpatient and Outpatient Pharmacies Subchapter 42.2. Sign-Out Systems...

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...