Patient Monitoring Equipment Research Articles

PTH-046 Benchmarking Endoscopy Services In Iraq – Results Of A National Survey

IntroductionIn the UK the Global Rating Scale (GRS) has been adopted as QA tool to improve the standards of endoscopic practice and of the patient experience. Endoscopy in Iraq is...

Availability of Anesthesia Equipment in Chinese Hospitals

Availability of physiologic monitoring equipment to ensure the safe administration of anesthesia is an expected standard in many parts of the world. Many hospitals in China may not have an adequate quantity and variety of anesthesia delivery and patient monitoring equipment to assure safe administration of anesthesia patient care. We present some typical cases of hospitals of different sizes and located in regions with different economic levels; our data demonstrate that there is a lack of available anesthesia administration and patient monitoring equipment in small hospitals and hospitals in economically underdeveloped regions.

Intensive care not confined to the bedspace: successfully implemented ventilation and monitoring solution for ICU intrahospital transport that is offering improvements in patient care

The redevelopment of the ICU at Westmead Hospital in 2006 required each of the 39 new bedspaces to have a transportable system that utilised bedside mechanical ventilation and patient monitoring equipment. Clinicians at Westmead ICU felt that there were certain limitations in patient care with the use of transport ventilators and monitors. When patients were transferred out of the ICU to other departments (for example, for CT scan, etc.), it was proposed that enhancements to care could be achieved using more sophisticated bedside equipment in place of basic transport ventilators and monitors.

Otter Tail Corp.

AbstractElectricity (MIC: 7.1 SIC: 4911 NAIC: 221121)Otter Tail is a diversified operating company. The Electric segment includes the production, transmission, distribution and sale of electric energy in Minnesota, North Dakota and South Dakota under the name Otter Tail Power Co. The Plastics segment consists of businesses producing polyvinyl chloride and polyethylene pipe. The Manufacturing segment consists of businesses producing waterfront equipment, wind towers, automotive frame‐straightening equipment and fabricated steel products and providing contract machining, and metal parts stamping and fabrication. Health Services segment consists of businesses involved in the sale of diagnostic medical equipment and patient monitoring equipment.

Otter Tail Corp.

AbstractElectricity (MIC: 7.1 SIC: 911 NAIC: 21121)Otter Tail is a diversified operating company. The Electric segment includes the production, transmission, distribution and sale of electric energy in Minnesota, North Dakota and South Dakota under the name Otter Tail Power Co. The Plastics segment consists of businesses producing polyvinyl chloride and polyethylene pipe. The Manufacturing segment consists of businesses producing waterfront equipment, wind towers, automotive frame‐straightening equipment and fabricated steel products and providing contract machining, and metal parts stamping and fabrication. Health Services segment consists of businesses involved in the sale of diagnostic medical equipment and patient monitoring equipment.

Otter Tail Corp.

AbstractElectricity (MIC: 7.1 SIC: 4911 NAIC:221121)Otter Tail was established as an electric utility. Co.'s operations include interests in health services, manufacturing, plastics and other businesses, and serves customers in the U.S. and Canada. The Electric segment includes the production, transmission, distribution and sale of electric energy in Minnesota, North Dakota and South Dakota. The Manufacturing segment includes the production of waterfront equipment, wind towers, custom plastic pallets, and material and handling trays. The Health Services segment consists of the sale of diagnostic medical and patient monitoring equipment. The Plastics segment produces polyvinyl chloride and polyethylene pipes used in water systems.

Otter Tail Corp.

Mergent's Dividend AchieversVolume 2, Issue 2 p. 205-205 U.S. Company Report Otter Tail Corp.† First published: 22 April 2005 https://doi.org/10.1002/div.2376 † Contact: : John C. MacFarlane — Chmn. Address: : 215 South Cascade Street, P.O. Box 496, Fergus Falls, MN 56538-0496 Web Site: : www.ottertail.com AboutPDF ToolsRequest permissionExport citationAdd to favoritesTrack citation ShareShare Give accessShare full text accessShare full-text accessPlease review our Terms and Conditions of Use and check box below to share full-text version of article.I have read and accept the Wiley Online Library Terms and Conditions of UseShareable LinkUse the link below to share a full-text version of this article with your friends and colleagues. Learn more.Copy URL Share a linkShare onFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditWechat Abstract Electricity (MIC: 7.1 SIC: 911 NAIC: 21121) Otter Tail was established as an electric utility. Co.'s operations include interests in health services, manufacturing, plastics and other businesses, and serves customers in the U.S. and Canada. The Electric segment includes the production, transmission, distribution and sale of electric energy in Minnesota, North Dakota and South Dakota. The Manufacturing segment includes the production of waterfront equipment, wind towers, custom plastic pallets, and material and handling trays. The Health Services segment consists of the sale of diagnostic medical and patient monitoring equipment. The Plastics segment produces polyvinyl chloride and polyethylene pipes used in water systems. Volume2, Issue2Spring 2005Pages 205-205 RelatedInformation

Otter Tail Corp.

AbstractElectricity (MIC: 7.1 SIC: 4911 NAIC:221121)Otter Tail was established as an electric utility. Co.'s operations include interests in health services, manufacturing, plastics and other businesses, and serves customers in the U.S. and Canada. The Electric segment includes the production, transmission, distribution and sale of electric energy in Minnesota, North Dakota and South Dakota. The Manufacturing segment includes the production of waterfront equipment, wind towers, custom plastic pallets, and material and handling trays. The Health Services segment consists of the sale of diagnostic medical and patient monitoring equipment. The Plastics segment produces polyvinyl chloride and polyethylene pipes used in water systems.

Otter Tail Corp.

AbstractElectricity (MIC: 7.1 SIC: 4911 NAIC:221121)Otter Tail is an operating electric utility engaged in the production, transmission and distribution and sale of electric energy in 48 states and 6 Canadian provinces. The Electric segment includes the production, transmission, distribution and sale of electric energy in Minnesota, North Dakota and South Dakota. The Manufacturing segment includes the production of waterfront equipment, wind towers, custom plastic pallets, and material and handling trays. The Health Services segment consists of the sale of diagnostic medical and patient monitoring equipment. The Plastics segment produces polyvinyl chloride pipe and polyethylene pipe.

The interventional magnetic resonance unit--the minimal access operating theatre of the future?

Interventional magnetic resonance units give the surgeon the potential to use intraoperative imaging to guide the surgical procedure. The advantages of magnetic resonance (MR) over other intraoperative imaging modalities include excellent soft tissue resolution, lack of ionizing radiation and the ability to reconstruct images in any desired plane. Postulated advantages include the ability to confirm adequate tumour resection, reduction in procedure magnitude and complication rate, shortened inpatient stay and the development of novel minimally invasive techniques including the use of thermal energy to destroy lesions. Fully MR compatible anaesthetic and patient monitoring equipment is available. However, before the MR-guided minimally invasive surgery can become a reality, much work is required in the assessment and development of MR compatible surgical instrumentation and equipment. This review describes the testing and development of instruments and equipment for MR image-guided surgery that we have undertaken. We describe the techniques we employ for open and minimal access surgery within this unique environment. The difficulties of operating within such an environment and the safety issues that this engenders are discussed. The current applications of intraoperative MR in the main surgical specialities are reviewed, and possible future areas of development for MR-guided minimally invasive surgery described.

Members Sought for Technical Advisory Committee on Patient Monitoring Equipment Standard

Members Sought for Technical Advisory Committee on Patient Monitoring Equipment Standard

The case for including medical informatics in medical, nursing, and public health school curricula

It is difficult to find time in the medical curriculum for teaching medical informatics in the face of ever expanding course requirements. Horizontal integration with current topics appears to be the most realistic way to include it. Since medical informatics teaches health professionals to streamline the handling of voluminous medical information, it may have claim to a special priority. In several European countries, medical informatics is federally mandated as a part of the medical curriculum. Without it, the ever increasing extent to which clinics, wards, and offices are being computerized can pose problems for newly graduated health professionals. This is especially true for nurses who often have to face patient-monitoring equipment on their own. In spite of the excellent efforts of the National Library of Medicine to train medical informatics professionals, the lack of teaching staff is still a factor in the slow adoption of the discipline. An inclusion of a specialization in medical informatics in more schools of public health curricula could be helpful in this regard.

Infusion Pumps May Cause Artifacts on Patient Monitoring Equipment

Infusion Pumps May Cause Artifacts on Patient Monitoring Equipment

Electrocution during anaesthesia

Cardiac arrest due to electrocution occurred in a young obstetric patient undergoing laparotomy. The patient subsequently died despite initial resuscitation. The cause was traced to an inappropriate and faulty switch in the base of the operating table; the circuit was completed by the ECG monitor which was of the direct earth type.

Medical electronics—in and out of the operating room

Modern electronics techniques are very much taken as the ‘norm’ in today's hospitals. From patient-monitoring equipment to diagnostic processes, from pathological analysis by computer to intensive-care situations, today's medical teams are better equipped than ever before

Patient Monitoring Equipment: Problems of Interference and Electrical Safety

Patient Monitoring Equipment: Problems of Interference and Electrical Safety

BASIC EQUIPMENT FOR MEDICAL INTENSIVE-CARE UNITS

The essential equipment for a general intensive-care unit can be provided for a capital expenditure of approximately £1000 per bed, but first priority should be given to the provision of sufficient trained nursing staff. Each additional piece of equipment for patient monitoring increases the demands upon the nursing staff, and to achieve operational efficiency frequent maintenance is usually required. The scarcity of trained technical staff and the need to keep running costs to a minimum are further reasons for avoiding undue complexity in patient monitoring equipment.

A review of experience operating a general medical intensive care unit.

From 18 months' experience of operating a four-bedded general medical intensive care unit a high staff-to-patient ratio was the most important factor in its success. Heavy capital spending does not appreciably reduce the importance of adequate numbers of trained staff, though patient-monitoring equipment can be useful and sometimes vital. As the scope for intensive care widens, the problems of clinical care become difficult, because no doctor is likely to be competent enough to provide for all categories of patients, and there is no intensive care equivalent of the general physician. Intensive care is likely to function best in a divisional specialist system of clinical care.