Common Sense Directions
Common Sense Directions
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An on-line journal dedicated to Clinical Engineering and common sense. |
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| Site update, December, 2008. JCAHO standards development, January, 2007. |
About common sense and this site A brief history of medical instrumentation Clinical Engineering Biomedical Engineering | |
| This proposal has mutated - see update above. September, 2005. | ||
| Maintenance Compliance Calculation: The Standard To Adopt. September, 2005.
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| The "promise" of danger and salvation in risk assessment. 2004.
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| "In the vacuum of hi-tech management, no one will hear you scream." 2004. | ||
| Be honest: does honesty pay during a survey? Defining your adversarial position. July, 2003.
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| Who's responsible? The clinician? The technician? The administrator? The manufacturer? JCAHO? The Fed.? The State? The sticker? July 2003.
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| Safety and Accountability. Medical errors may account for between 44,000 and 98,000 deaths per year in the U.S.. How do equipment failures contribute to this statistic? Safety and Accountability: who knows what? June, 2003.
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| Are they accurate? Do they last forever? What maintenance is necessary? Excerpts from AAMI, AHA, NIH, plus commentary. June, 2003.
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| How arbitrary is it? E + C + (M + F + U)/3 = uncommon sense. June, 2003.
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| If I have 100, and take away 95, how many are left? Answer: 0. Here's a methodology that virtually assures JCAHO compliance. May, 2003.
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| Whom do you trust? This may sound unfair, but as a department head, do you feel lonely because the VP you report to knows more about floor polish than...."what's that?...a refibillator ?" May 2003.
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| Addressing many ills with one pill. Aneroids, suction regulators, oto/ophthalmoscopes, nurse call, draped power cords: one for all, and all for one. May, 2003.
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