As Biomeds our main function is to promote and ensure patient safety… one vital aspect of our profession is minimizing the risk of legal liability to our employers and clients. So what do you do if your client or employer is being sued due to medical equipment malfunction, and you are being called on to testify in [...]

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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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Aspect Medical held a conference call this morning to discuss the New England Journal of Medicine study which found that the BIS Monitor is no better at detecting Anesthesia Awareness then older devices which measure ETAG.
The Conference Call can be accessed via this link.
Aspect Medical in its conference call restated its position that the BIS [...]

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Aspect Medical   (ASPM: 5.31 +0.03 +0.57%, vol: 85,103, 52wk: 4.87 - 16.08) issued a press release in response to the New England Journal of Medicine study.
The study, which shows that the BIS Monitor is no more effective against anesthesia awareness then older technology relying on End Title Anesthetic Gas (ETAG). ETAG measures the amount of anesthetic exhaled [...]

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The New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM) published a study that concludes that the Aspect Medical (ASPM: 5.31 +0.03 +0.57%, vol: 85,103, 52wk: 4.87 - 16.08) BIS Monitor  is no more effective than older products at preventing anesthesia awareness.
The study compared the BIS monitor to an older product that measured the exhaled amount of anesthesia gas. [...]

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The British Journal of Anesthesia published a paper by J. Edworthy and E. Hellier, where they study Alarms and Human Behaviour: Implication for Medical Alarms.
The article reviews the effectiveness of alarms in their environment. In particular they discuss five areas of concern:  Number of Alarms, False Alarms, Design of Alarms, Intelligent Alarm Systems, and Recent World-Wide [...]

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