Reliability and safety of medical equipment by use of calibration and certification instruments

Avendaño, Guillermo; Fuentes, Paz Soto; Castillo, Victor Antonio Figueroa; Garcia, Constanza; Dominguez, Natalie

doi:10.1109/latw.2010.5550349

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“…• Usually, the medical devices are connected directly or indirectly to a patient's body to provide a clinical treatment (Electrocardiography, monitor, and ventilator), surgical (anesthesia, and surgical endoscopic device), and biological signals (diathermy, X-ray), and clinical laboratory tests [14]. • The rise in medical device errors is caused by a lack of information about its operation or maintenance.…”

Section: Risk-based Medical Device Breakdownmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…In 1971 before safety measures were applied across the world, the electrical device was considered quite an alarming risk to patients. There were (3 patients per day: 1200 patients yearly) who had accidentally electrocuted just in United States hospitals [14]. Accordingly, medical device errors have serious consequences in diagnosis, treatment, and monitoring (analysis of graphs, curves, or data).…”

Section: Risk-based Medical Device Breakdownmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Also, it caused indirect harm through misdiagnosis caused by erroneous readings of the device like blood cell count, blood pressure, body size, magnitudes of neoplastic structures, and size of gestational. Harm is also through errors in estimating the required treatment time such as miscalculation of doses of accelerated electrons [14].…”

Section: Risk-based Medical Device Breakdownmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Therefore, biomedical engineering must be verified for calibration, safety, and reliability for all medical devices especially those that are used in life-ordeath situations. Also, medical device errors become a source of serious harm to the patient [14,9,11]. Medical device has different levels of risk.…”

Section: Safe Medical Servicesmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Application the Risk-Based Maintenance for Optimizing the Overall Medical Devices Safety

Mkalaf

2022

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The purpose of this study was to identify risks to patients as a result of sudden device failure during the delivery of medical treatment services. Which, can affect the reputation of hospitals following the exposure of patients' lives to various risks like death, injury, and misdiagnosis. Furthermore, a sudden failure will lead to increased economic losses as a result of increased maintenance costs. Of (20) medical devices, (6) high-risk devices were selected, such as a ventilator, diathermy, anesthesia, BiPAP, oxygen concentrator, and electrosurgical devices. A quantitative statistical analysis based on risk-based maintenance is used to evaluate the effectiveness of the reliability of the medical device and its risks to patient lives. The results show that the reliability of the chosen medical device has declined, with higher maintenance costs due to excessive maintenance or the type of maintenance policy used. Therefore, this study provides evidence that hospitals must adopt a risk-based maintenance approach to prevent sudden failure while in service. In addition, these medical devices have various complex parts that must adopt a combination of maintenance schedules. Based on Risk-Based Maintenance's experience in improving patient safety in public hospitals in the 20 most successful OECD countries.

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Section: Risk-based Medical Device Breakdownmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Risk-based Medical Device Breakdownmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Risk-based Medical Device Breakdownmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Safe Medical Servicesmentioning

confidence: 99%

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