Introduction: Decision-making on medical equipment management is a daily task for clinical engineers, but it may prove difficult to easily extract relevant information from the large amount of data from computerized maintenance management systems. This article describes a simple method of medical equipment classification based on corrective maintenance indicators. Methods: Three indicators were...

abstract background: in 2007, a rule prohibiting the use of incinerators was ratified by the iranian islamic parliament. based on this rule, the ministry of health emphasized the sterilization of infectious waste at its production source by means of non-incineration equipment and methods. this research examined the performance of non-incineration technologies in treating medical infectious and ...

RFID is a promising technology in the healthcare area in order to improve patient safety and increase efficiency and reduce costs in the daily healthcare work. This paper analyzes the available literature regarding both interference of RFID systems in medical equipment and the interferences of medical equipment on RFID systems. The conclusion of this analysis is that is necessary to develop sta...

Increasingly stringent international diesel particulate emissions standards have re-established interest in Diesel filters. Modern Diesel engine technology, with computerized engine management systems and advanced, common rail injection systems, needs to be fully exploited in order to allow the application of efficient and durable Diesel filter systems, usually supported by catalytic aids, as s...

Among the power drills (Electrical/Pneumatic/Battery) used in Orthopedic surgery, battery drill has got several advantages. Surgeons in low resource settings could not routinely use Orthopedic battery drills (OBD) due to the prohibitive cost of good drills or poor quality of other drills. "Hardware" or Engineering battery drill (HBD) is a viable alternative to OBD. HBD is easy to procure, rugge...

Multi shaped beam lithography requires the precise and durable alignment and fixation of MEMS based Multi Deflection Arrays on stable ceramic system platforms using vacuum and high temperature compatible interconnection and joining technologies. Micron accuracy during assembly is accomplished by mark detection using image processing and 3DOF alignment procedures; while interconnection as well a...

Here we supplement some earlier work (Beaudry and Portier [2004]) with some new evidence obtained from Japanese and U.S. sectoral data. Our results show that (i) In the U.S. as well as for Japan, Stock Prices short run movements incorporate most (all) of the long run shocks to Total Factor Productivity and (ii) the Stock Price news is indeed a shock that does not affect sectoral TFP s on impact...

Telemedicine is currently being used to bridge the physical distance between patients in remote areas and medical specialists around the world. Developing countries have had little experience or success with telemedicine, in part because of the prohibitively expensive equipment and connectivity costs involved. Developing countries require low-cost, sustainable telemedicine solutions for the loc...