In this article, Dallas T. Sutton, Jr., CRES, supervisor of clinical engineering at WakeMed Health and Hospitals in Raleigh, NC, sits down with 24×7 Magazine to discuss how breaking down the barriers to getting the job done is all in a day’s work for this team of HTM professionals.
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As the largest, standalone pediatric hospital between St. Louis and Denver—boasting a whopping 8,500 employees— Kansas City, Mo.-based Children’s Mercy Hospital and Clinics is known for seeing a high patient load. But it is arguably the institution’s clinical engineering team that keeps the medical facility up and running like a well-oiled machine.
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Mettawa, Ill.-based Vyaire Medical Inc., a global player in the ventilation technologies market, has signed an agreement to acquire the ventilator business and the imtmedical brand name. The traditional business unit testing devices, including test lungs, will be continued under the brand IMT Analytics and will remain in the possession of the previous ownership.
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Biomedical expert Patrick Lynch says he had a realization in his 20s that still stands true today: Workers change when they reach about age 45. In this article, Lynch argues that one’s reluctance to take on new technologies and disrupt the status quo, however, could be a major detriment to success.
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Imtmedical, based in Buchs, Switzerland, has debuted the CITREX H3 gas flow and pressure gauge. The CITREX H3 offers all functions required for a precise testing of ventilators and other medical devices and can measure pressure, flow, temperature, and—with an optional O2 sensor—oxygen concentration.
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