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O R Keil

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At least 19 recordsLinked to original sources
PubMed1980

Multihospital clinical engineering.

Administrators of a multihospital system considered the options, assessed needs, and designed a clinical engineering department that provides services to 10 institutions.

Maintenance and Engineering, Hospital↗
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Development of an in-house clinical engineering shared service.

Within the Greenville, South Carolina, Hospital System, an in-house Clinical Engineering Department is being developed as a shared service. This paper discusses the background for this program in a multihospital system. Several aspects of the program, including staffing, equipment needs, scheduling, participation in system activities, and some future possibilities for department expansion are also presented.

Biomedical Engineering↗
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Quality assurance.

This paper explores the pursuit of quality in the area of clinical/biomedical engineering from the perspective of one who looks at the methods for measuring quality from the outside. The health care world is running in many different directions to identify methods for defining and measuring quality. Yet, quality assurance is not a magical process to eliminate all ills from health care. It is a cyclical management process that may make the difference between the long-term growth and development of clinical engineering and the alternative elimination of that function.

Biomedical Engineering↗
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"Agenda for change".

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Accreditation↗
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Ultrasound and its various modes in use-part I.

This is part I of a two-part discussion of the basic principles and properties of ultrasound and piezoelectric materials. These instruments are designed to perform depth measurements. Various types of conventional diagnostic ultrasound instruments are commonly used in health care: A-scanners are the basic ultrasound machine, useful in examining the brain and the eye. B-scanners, used for rapid recognition of anatomic landmarks, provide a two-dimensional image. Time-motion or M-mode scanning produces a trace of time vs position. Doppler instruments transmit and receive information continuously. In part 2, the author will review real-time scanners, principles and uses, and considerations in designing imaging systems.

Auscultation↗
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Ultrasound and its various modes in use, part II: Real-time scanners.

Real-time scanners process information as they receive it, enabling structures to be viewed as they are scanned. This offers the advantage of faster scanning; however, image quality may not be as good as that of conventional scanners. Real-time scanners are used for a wide range of studies, but have not replaced B-mode and M-mode scanners to the extent envisioned by early developers.

Breast Diseases↗