Mechanical ventilator failures expose patients to unacceptable risks, and maintaining mechanical ventilator safety is an important issue. We examined the usefulness of maintaining mechanical ventilators by clinical engineers (CEs) using a specialized calibrator. These evaluations and the ability to make in-house repairs proved useful for obviating the need to rent ventilators which, in turn, mi...

208 words) PURPOSE To determine the approaches used in withdrawing mechanical ventilator support. MATERIALS and METHODS Speakers from the invited faculty of the World Federation of Societies of Intensive and Critical Care Medicine Congress in 2013 with an interest in ethics were asked to provide a detailed description of individual approaches to the process of withdrawal of mechanical ventilati...

New features of mechanical ventilators are frequently introduced, including new modes, monitoring techniques, and triggering techniques. But new rarely translates into any measureable improvement in outcome. We describe 4 new techniques and attempt to define what is a new invention versus what is innovative-a technique that significantly improves a measurable variable. We describe and review th...

Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. In 2008, he was invited to lead the Dynamic Equipment area of COMPERJ, the biggest petrochemical complex of Brazil, still under construction. He joined Petrobras in 1989, and began working with rotating equipment maintenance. He was transferred to the process area dealing with rotating equipment optimization, operational proceeding improvements, and operator training, mo...

introduction the main goal of this study was to perform quality control test on all radiography units operating in golestan province of iran. materials and methods forty-four x-ray units were examined based on general accepted programs for quality control. eight parameters including kvp accuracy, kvp reproducibility, ma-time reciprocity, exposure linearity, exposure reproducibility, timer accur...

In order to carry out rapid response of design of products, aimed at problems existed in realm cooperation during the design process of mechanical equipment, this paper proposes design mode of mechanical equipment based on cloud environment, implementation method of cloudy domain analysis on design demand and mapping technology, serial expand strategy on discrete design resource and strategy in...