{"title":"Cyberinsights: The Specific Risk Considerations Imparted by Cyber-Physical Systems.","authors":"Axel Wirth","doi":"10.2345/0899-8205-53.4.306","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2345/0899-8205-53.4.306","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":35656,"journal":{"name":"Biomedical Instrumentation and Technology","volume":"53 4 1","pages":"306-309"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.2345/0899-8205-53.4.306","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41786675","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Research: Ensuring Cavitation in a Medical Device Ultrasonic Cleaner.","authors":"S. Kovach","doi":"10.2345/0899-8205-53.4.280","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2345/0899-8205-53.4.280","url":null,"abstract":"Background: Ultrasonic cleaners are used for fine cleaning of medical devices, removing soil from joints, crevices, lumens, and other areas that are difficult to clean using other methods. To accomplish this fine cleaning, ultrasonic cleaners use a process known as cavitation. To understand the function of the cavitation process on items that require enhanced cleaning, a study was conducted to determine whether four commercially available products claiming to test for cavitation actually detect cavitation activity. Methods: Each of the products selected for the study were placed into a Mason jar containing cleaning solution at temperatures of 77°F (25°C) and 100°F (38°C), with no cavitation energy generated. The jars were agitated by vigorous manual shaking for five seconds (one time per minute for 15 minutes) by the same operator. The results of the commercial testing products were interpreted according to manufacturers' instructions for use and recorded following the 15-minute agitation process. Each test was repeated three times. Results: Three of the four commercially available tests claiming to detect cavitation were demonstrated to not be specific to cavitation. Each of the three tests satisfied the criteria for passing when in the absence of cavitation. Conclusion: Cavitation is an important and necessary function of all ultrasonic cleaners. The results of the study clearly demonstrate that even when no cavitation is being produced, certain tests will still provide results indicating the presence of cavitation. Those tests do not distinguish between cavitation energy and the other parameters in an ultrasonic cleaner.","PeriodicalId":35656,"journal":{"name":"Biomedical Instrumentation and Technology","volume":"53 4 1","pages":"280-285"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.2345/0899-8205-53.4.280","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48734852","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Regulatory Wrap: Cybersecurity-Related Regulatory Considerations for Medical Devices.","authors":"Vidya Murthy","doi":"10.2345/0899-8205-53.4.312","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2345/0899-8205-53.4.312","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":35656,"journal":{"name":"Biomedical Instrumentation and Technology","volume":"53 4 1","pages":"312-314"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.2345/0899-8205-53.4.312","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42632204","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Troubleshoot It: Focus on Fundamentals When Troubleshooting New Video Integration Systems.","authors":"B. Crossley","doi":"10.2345/0899-8205-53.4.318","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2345/0899-8205-53.4.318","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":35656,"journal":{"name":"Biomedical Instrumentation and Technology","volume":"53 4 1","pages":"318-319"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.2345/0899-8205-53.4.318","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46718344","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Trial by Fire: HTM Team Demonstrates Valor in the Face of Uncertain Odds.","authors":"Amber Logan","doi":"10.2345/0899-8205-53.4.270","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2345/0899-8205-53.4.270","url":null,"abstract":"On Nov. 8, 2018, Rob Harry, site director of clinical engineering for Adventist Health Feather River, and his team—BMET III Marc Silver, BMET III David Falcon, and Network Systems Specialist Jared Wilson—helped evacuate at least 45 patients from their hospital as a wildfire swept through the town of Paradise, CA, leaving them with little time to escape themselves. The Camp Fire, as it became known, would go on to become the most destructive and deadly wildfire in California history, killing at least 85 people, destroying 14,000 residences, and charring an area the size of Chicago. “It hit within minutes, and within minutes, the whole town was gone,” Harry said, recalling the fire that would destroy his community, his hospital, and ultimately tear his team apart. “There was only time to evacuate—and not even enough time for that.” A Day Like Any Other Fire is nothing new for those living and working in Paradise. “We’re fairly used to it,” said Wilson, whose family has lived on the ridge since the 1930s. “We live in Paradise. It’s common.” In fact, on Wilson’s first day at Feather River, he had to help evacuate the hospital because of a fire in the same area. “It burned down to the river and stopped. It never jumped over to the other side,” Wilson said of the Humboldt Fire that sprang up in July 2008. Last year’s Camp Fire, however, was a different beast. Just as members of Feather River’s healthcare technology management (HTM) team were starting their day around 6:30 a.m., the Camp Fire began kindling in a wooded area near Pulga, about seven miles northeast of Paradise. Silver arrived at the hospital around 7 a.m. “As I was unloading my car, I kept hearing plunks hit the ground and these little bumps hit my car,” he remembered. “I look, and Amber Logan was director of","PeriodicalId":35656,"journal":{"name":"Biomedical Instrumentation and Technology","volume":"53 4 1","pages":"270-276"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42977264","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Frontlines: 'Shifting into Medical Application Mode'.","authors":"Joseph Sheffer","doi":"10.2345/0899-8205-53.4.250","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2345/0899-8205-53.4.250","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":35656,"journal":{"name":"Biomedical Instrumentation and Technology","volume":"53 4 1","pages":"250"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.2345/0899-8205-53.4.250","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45474642","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}