A Case Study on Performance and Safety Test of Defibrillator Devices

DOI

10.2991/icemie-16.2016.34How to use a DOI?

Keywords

meterology; defebrillator; electroshock; patient safety; medical electrical devices

Abstract

Nowadays more than 10,000 different types of medical devices can be found in hospitals. In this way, medical electrical equipment is being employed in a wide variety of fields in medical sciences with different physiological effects and measurements. Hospitals and medical centers must ensure that their critical medical devices are safe, accurate, reliable and operating at the required level of performance. Defibrillators are critical resuscitation devices. The use of reliable defibirillators has led to more effective treatments and improved patient safety through better control and management of complications during Cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR). The metrological reliability of twenty (20) frequent uses, manual defibrillators in use ten hospitals (4 privates and 6 publics) in one province according to international and national standards was evaluated. Quantitative analysis of controls and instruments accuracy, showed the amount of the obtained results in many units are critical and have less value over the standard limitations especially in devices with poor battery. Acquiring results indicate a need for new and severe regulations on periodic performance verifications and medical equipment quality control program especially in high risk instruments. It is also necessary provide training courses on the fundumental of operation and performane parameters for medical staff in the field of meterology in medicine and how can get good accuracy results especially in high risk medical devices.

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© 2016, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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AU  - Ali Tavakoli Golpaygani
AU  - Mohammad Mehdi Movahedi
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TI  - A Case Study on Performance and Safety Test of Defibrillator Devices
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