Every year, when I speak with biomedical technicians who have recently taken the CBET exam, I am always amazed at how many anesthesia questions they tell me they had on the exam. Personally, I believe anesthesia is a specialty rather than general biomed, so many examinees may not service this type of device. However, the […]
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If your cell phone had the same ring tone as everyone else’s, would you always answer your phone? In a crowd of people with many phones going off at the same time, you would probably become conditioned to the sound and possibly ignore it. If technology had not leaped forward to allow people to personalize […]
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Binseng Wang, ScD, CCE, FAIMBE, FACCE Brian Poplin, DHA, FACHE, CBET The Joint Commission has officially confirmed that the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services has agreed to accept alternatives to manufacturers’ maintenance recommendations. So clinical engineering (CE) professionals are now reassured that they can continue to use the “risk-based criteria” for maintenance planning. However, […]
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Robert Hijazi Several hospitals around the world are integrating medical devices into their wireless networks. The benefit is to improve the effectiveness of data transfer and the dependability of the equipment. In January 2011, I read an article that mentioned the involvement of the FDA with hospital networking. This article made me curious about what […]
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