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M J Shaffer

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Biomedical equipment: maintenance factors, units of measurement, and standards.

The scope of biomedical equipment maintenance in health care institutions is typically determined by the available manpower and time resources. This paper reviews 27 factors that influence this maintenance, discusses the units of measurement that have been used to assess maintenance effectiveness, and outlines the steps needed to develop appropriate standards for determining whether the maintenance is effective.

Costs and Cost Analysis↗
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Applicability of personnel management concepts to clinical engineering practice.

Personnel management concepts are reviewed for inclusion in clinical engineering basic and continuing education curricula. The management function is evaluated from the aspect of formal and informal leadership, two-way communication, voluntary cooperation, and the direction and discipline of the clinical engineering staff. Prerequisites examined in support of these activities include an effective organizational structure, man-to-job matching, personal needs, and job satisfaction. Steps propounded for stimulating communications between the clinical engineer and his multidisciplinary clients include adjustments to his own role model and to his educational technique so as to accord more with the specific role models of his audience.

Biomedical Engineering↗
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Manual record-keeping and statistical records for the operating room.

Surveys have shown that handwritten anesthesia and circulating records kept in hospital operating rooms may be inadequately maintained and analyzed. Online, fully automated data processing techniques have been applied to reduce the anesthesiologist's recordkeeping workload, but with limited receptivity. An off-line data processing system has been developed using handwritten records to provide both anesthesia and operating room utilization statistics. Evaluation of the system indicates that an online, semiautomated approach applied only to charting vital signs and recording utilization statistics is an appropriate one for future development.

Anesthesia↗