Anthony Chan has written a new Biomed Device Technology Textbook titled: BIOMEDICAL DEVICE TECHNOLOGY: Principles and Design. Published by the Charles C Thomas publishing company. the 594 page book retails for $114.95 for the hardcover edition and $84.95 for the softcover.
Heres the description and table of contents:
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For many years, the tools available to physicians were limited [...]

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A new Biomed site launched over the weekend. Hosted on Squidoo, the site titled “Biomedical Services: Maintaining essential medical equipment for hospitals & physicians” has a great over view of the Biomed/Clinical Engineering field.
Check it out, I’m sure you will be as impressed as I was!
Biomedical Services: Maintaining essential medical equipment for hospitals & [...]

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JAMA, The Journal of the American Medical Association published a study titled “Electromagnetic Interference From Radio Frequency Identification Inducing Potentially Hazardous Incidents in Critical Care Medical Equipment” that raises the concern that RFID (Radio-Frequency Identification) Tags can cause “potential hazardous incidents” in medical equipment.
Here is the study abstract:
“Electromagnetic Interference From Radio Frequency Identification Inducing Potentially Hazardous Incidents in [...]

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Fluke Biomedical a division of the Fluke Corporation has released a new version of its Ansur Test Automation System which is compatible with Windows Vista.
“Ansur software makes creation and streamlining of standard work possible for medical device inspections (whether for preventive maintenance—PM—or post-repair quality assurance) using a single human interface no matter how many different mainframe [...]

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CardioArm, a snakelike surgical robot developed at Carnegie Mellon University will allow surgeons to perform critical cardiac procedures through one tiny incision.
“The curved robot has a series of joints that automatically adjust to follow the course plotted by the robot’s head. This provides greater precision than a flexible endoscope can offer. “It’s certainly easier to [...]

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So Biomedical/Clinical Engineering Week is a week from Monday! Thats only 9 days away!
What are you planning to do to celebrate Biomed Week? Some facilities are having special luncheons for the their Biomeds, others are hosting carnivals, and others are going to local schools to talk about our great profession.
At the very least make sure you [...]

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AAMI the Association for the Advancement of Medical Instrumentation, released a poster in honor of National Biomedical/Clinical Engineering Week which takes place from May 18 through May 24, 2008.
AAMI’s TMC (Technology Management Council) produced a 4-color poster that hospitals, manufacturers, schools, and biomedical societies can use to draw attention to the event.
To find out more about [...]

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The new Daylights Savings which has first implemented in 2007 has gone into affect this past Sunday morning at 2am. What does that mean for Biomeds? It means that all equipment with clocks manufactured more then one year ago will probably need to be manually reset.
Gonna be lots of fun resetting all those clocks, getting all those calls from [...]

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Palomar Pomerado Health which will be located in Escondido, CA when complete in 2011., has launched a virtual facility on the web in Second Life - a 3D online virtual world.  
The health center will be a state of the art 600 bed facility covering 1.2 million square feet, costing $773 million when complete. The opening of the virtual [...]

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“FDA is warning dental professionals about serious patient injuries caused by poorly maintained electric dental handpieces. Some patients have experienced third degree burns that needed plastic surgery. The burns have occurred during tooth extraction, when cutting teeth and bone, and during other surgical procedures, but overheating could happen during any dental procedure.
The problem occurs if [...]

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