Proposed Medical Design Requires The Certification And Approval By A Notified Body

The cost of Medical equipment plays a significant role in the delivery of health care. The clinical engineering at Victoria Hospital is an important branch of the hospital team management that are working to strategies ways to improve quality of service and lower cost repairs of equipments. The team members from Biomedical and maintenance engineering’s roles are to ensure utilization of quality equipments such as endoscope and minimize length of repair time. All these issues are a major influence in the hospital’s project cost. For example, Victory hospital, which is located in Canada, is in the process of evaluating different options to decrease cost of its endoscope repair. This equipment is use in the endoscopy department for

Has anyone ever considered how medical devices are prepared before a surgical procedure? Central Sterile Processing Department (CSPD) consists of services within the Hospital, in which reusable medical devices will be cleaned, prepared, and processed. The role for CSPD is to prevent infection transmitted by usage of medical devices. The procedure for hospital medical devices before surgery has a four part workflow process in: Decontamination, to Instrumentation, to Sterilization and Sterile Storage (Case Carts). An example is given for reprocessing an Intestinal Set and the supplies needed for the preparation of this medical device set.

Quality control processes are also a major part of a Sterile Processing technicians daily task. As pointed out on the Infection Control Today’s website “Healthcare facilities should allow adequate time for reprocessing to ensure adherence to all steps recommended by the device manufacturer, including drying, proper storage, and transport of reprocessed devices”. (“Immediate Need to Review,”2015) This involves a detailed policy and procedure manual and manufactures instructions available for all technicians to reference to ensure proper measures are taken for the cleaning and processing of medical products to ensure patient

The CQC guidance about compliance Essential standards of quality and safety covers pressure care in-

The quality standards for an organisation set down the ‘rules’ around the products and services the business provides, the suppliers and services they use, how staff are recruited and trained and how customer service is dealt with.

In each working sphere there are sets of regulations and standards. You may find out more information about standards in a code of practice, national occupational standards, regulations, minimum standards.

Medical equipment is usually expensive and require high mechanical precision, especially for the equipment that produce devices that install in patients’ body. Fennigkoh and Smith (1989) indicate that medical equipment needs constant maintenance to make sure that it can perform required high-requirements, which makes preventive maintenance very important in medical industry. Another benefit of implementing preventive maintenance is that it also decreases expensive corrective maintenance costs.

The purpose of this article is to bring awareness of the possible upcoming changes in health care laws with the implementation of the Affordable Care Act (ACA). One of the cost saving initiatives proposed the ACA under review in this article is Section 6407 (Osborne, 2014, p.344). Which calls for restrictions on providers that are allowed to order Durable Medical Equipment (DME).

Institute for Healthcare Improvement. (2004). Failure mode and effects analysis (FMEA). Cambridge, MA: Institute for Healthcare Improvement.

This is if you want to be sure that you have the right products and the best equipment that you can use when assisting your patients. Be sure to buy products that are going to be made by manufacturers who have earned a good reputation over the years. There is a good chance that they have been getting very good feedback from their customers and buyers and you would certainly want to capitalize on that as much as you can.

Standardization: Set of predefined specifications, rules or features that manufactures or producers need to follow when they make/produce the products/goods or components of it. Example- MacDonalds set standardization for each of its menu items like size, weight, food value etc. So, each food item need to prepare according to predefined standard.

There are several documents relating to electro-surgery equipment, hazards of by-products engendered and jeopardizes to those that are exposed. The Medicines and Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency (MHRA), Health and Safety Executive (HSE), Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) and the British Occupational Health Society (BOHS) acknowledge risks to health for those exposed. However, the HSE (2012) verbalizes that there is a lack of statistical ill-health data relating to surgical smoke, and MHRA (2012) verbally expresses that the ill-health effects require further study, as there is no conclusive validated evidence to prove or confute deleterious effects. The HSE suggests that exposure to smoke of any kind should be evaded.

international standards- Meant to be conducted in a diverse legal and cultural environment within the organization- to adhere to basic principles, promote value adding and improve orgnizational processes and operations,

Quality control checks are vital at this stage. Slide numbers and surnames must be double checked with the forms, as well as the type of sectioning required (e.g. levels, shallow levels, serials, H&E, or unstained spares). The number of blocks in the case must also be checked. During sectioning, it is integral to always perform a final check of block number to slide number before picking up the section from the water bath. There can be huge consequences if a section is placed onto an incorrect slide, particularly if they are two different cases of two different patients. Only ribbons of one block should be floated at one time to prevent confusion and mix up. Following each block, the water bath should be cleaned using tissue regularly, to remove and wax, tissue, and debris. There are also several health and safety cautions to consider. Microtome blades are extremely sharp and can easily cut skin, thus they must be handled using forceps when blades are changed, and old blades must be put into the designated compartment located on the bottom

Many kinds of classification systems have been provided in various military and International organizations for Standardization (ISO)such as, quality rating systems which have been applied and extended to define, classify, and evaluate none conformities