[{"id": "globalce-100", "words": "512", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "9", "author": "Velazquez, Adriana", "title": "WHO Update Column", "date": "2020", "keywords": "covid-19; devices", "summary": "The International Federation of Medical and Biological Engineers\u2019 Clinical Engineering Division (IFMBE-CED) has also worked to consolidate Covid-19 guidance from clinical engineers and health- care technology management professionals globally via their Covid-19 Resource Center that can be found at https://ced.ifmbe.org/blog/covid19-resources.html. The WHO has published a wide range of Covid-19 information and resources which are consolidated in the technical guidance page https://www.who.int/emergencies/diseases/novel-coronavirus-2019/ technical-guidance.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "globalce-101", "words": "907", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "60", "author": "David, Yadin", "title": "Editor's Corner", "date": "2020", "keywords": "use", "summary": "The CE profession has certainly evolved and has begun to enjoy more input into the needed and effective programs they provide and manage, especially during this present huge demand for CE knowledge and leadership. He shared the demands of his work that were similar to those that I had been hearing from many other colleagues over the previous 14 weeks.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "globalce-102", "words": "6292", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "42", "author": "David, Yadin; Schultz, Jerome", "title": "Submissions Style Guide for the Global Clinical Engineering Journal", "date": "2020", "keywords": "alarms; data; engineering; equipment; example; global; journal; medical; methods; results; section; study; style; total; united", "summary": "Example A12 \u201cWith the development of medical technology, clinical alarms from diverse medical devices, which are explosively increasing, are becoming a new issue in intensive care units (ICUs). According to previous studies, there were no more than 6 types of alarms from one critically ill patient in 1983; however, there were at least 40 types of clinical alarms in 2011.1 Excessive clinical alarms may cause an alarm hazard, which includes inappropriate application of alarms, alarm fatigue, and the application of a uni- form alarm range to every patient.2 While defects of devices threatened patient safety in the past, alarms indiscriminately generated by the explosive increase in the number of medical devices now threaten their safety.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "globalce-104", "words": "2703", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "49", "author": "Mijares, Rodrigo; Moreno, Roberto; Pedraza, Erika; Morales, Fernando; Boccardo, Renzo; Garc\u00eda, Mar\u00eda Antonieta", "title": "Redesigning Protective Gear for Health Workers During the COVID-19 Pandemic: Leveling up the \u201cAerosol Box\u201d", "date": "2020", "keywords": "aerosol; box; covid-19; cubedv; figure; health; pandemic; workers", "summary": "27 J Global Clinical Engineering Vol.3 Issue 1: 2020 Received May 21, 2020, accepted June 25, 2020, date of publication July 6, 2020 Redesigning protective gear for health workers during the COVID-19 pandemic: leveling up the \u201caerosol box\u201d Health workers face a higher risk of infection than the rest of the population.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "globalce-107", "words": "823", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "43", "author": "David, Yadin", "title": "Editor's Corner", "date": "2020", "keywords": "emerson; engineering; polio", "summary": "A couple of years later, calling it the tank respirator, inventor John Emerson refined the design and adopted cost-cutting engineering enabling this \u201ccontraption\u201d to become a staple within medical facilities. Yet, the ability to connect challenges with engineering solutions just like John Emerson did about 90 years ago is the contribution to better care that clinical engineers do every day.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "globalce-108", "words": "4881", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "39", "author": "Alvarado, Alembert Eistein Lino ; Rosa, Diego Antonio de Oliveira ; Mello, Sara Gomes ; Dias, Marcelo Sanches ; Barbosa, Mario Fernando ; Barros, Kelvis do Nascimento ; Lemos, Bruno Alexandre ; Vitorasso, Renato de Lima ; Bartholomeu, Victor Pacheco ; Americano, Pedro Parik ; Filho, Edison Silva ; Moraes, Jos\u00e9 Carlos Teixeira de Barros ; Ferreira Junior, Antonio Francisco Gentil ; Moriya, Henrique Takachi ", "title": "Quality Assessment of Emergency Corrective Maintenance of Critical Care Ventilators within the Context of COVID-19 in Sao Paulo, Brazil", "date": "2021", "keywords": "assessment; care; control; hpa; maintenance; nbr; oxygen; pressure; quality; test; ventilators", "summary": "ABSTRACT This technical report presents the quality assessment process for the emergency corrective maintenance of critical care ventilators in a node, IPT-POLI, of a voluntary network that is part of the initiative +Maintenance of Ventilators, led by the National Service of Industrial Training (SENAI) and its Integrated Manufacturing and Technology Center (CIMATEC) to perform maintenance on unused mechanical ventilators in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic in Brazil. Thus, it can be concluded that criteria selection for the quality assessment in critical care ventilators is crucial and of great significance for future pandemic scenarios, such as the situation experienced during the COVID-19 pandemic.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "globalce-110", "words": "678", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "37", "author": "Cheng, Michael", "title": "Commentary/Letter to the Editor of the Global Clinical Engineering Journal", "date": "2020", "keywords": "engineering; global; ppe", "summary": "The consequence of no PPE protection could be di- sastrous for global health! 39 J Global Clinical Engineering Vol.3 Issue 2: 2020J Global Clinical Engineering Vol.3 Issue 2: 2020 38 Received September 12, 2020, replied October 24, 2020, date of publication October 27, 2020 Commentary/Letter to the Editor of the Global CE Journal By B. M. Gamble1, Francoise Mailhot2, R. Rivas3, S. Rabbani4, M. Secca5, M. Cheng6 1 Alumni of Toronto University, and longtime follower of the theories of Chris Argyris and W. Edwards Deming.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "globalce-111", "words": "4232", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "19", "author": "Yadin, David; Calil, Saide ; Pallikarakis, Nicolas ; Poluta, Mladen ; Stavrianou, Kallirroi ; Bergamasco, Stefano ; Clark, Daniel ; Judd , Tom ; Wear , James ; Easty, Tony ", "title": "International Survey of Clinical Engineering Professionals ", "date": "2020", "keywords": "engineering; field; global; healthcare; international; professional; question; questionnaire; responses; survey", "summary": "Clear and simple questions\u2019 language, together with a small number of questions and the use of multiple-choice questions style were all intended to help increase survey response rate.11 Since the total size of the international community of practic- ing C.E. is unknown at present and the response rate of previous survey was low9 the sampling methods for this research study was probability sampling12 where mem- bers of the community are chosen randomly. B. Schouten, F. Cobben, J. Bethlehem: Indicators for the representativeness of survey response, Survey Methodology, June 2009, Vol. 35, No. 1, pp.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "globalce-115", "words": "1089", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "35", "author": "Yadin, David", "title": "Editor's Corner", "date": "2020", "keywords": "engineering; global; healthcare; magic", "summary": "Global Clinical Engineering Journal. This started over 30 years ago with the creation of the American College of Clinical Engineering (ACCE),1 and continued with the formation of the Center for Telehealth & eHealth Law (CTeL),2 5 years later.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "globalce-116", "words": "2412", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "40", "author": "Yadin, David", "title": "Unravelling the magic of latent safety threats", "date": "2020", "keywords": "engineering; healthcare; medical; public; quality; safety; system", "summary": "In other words, system safety is dependent on coordination of all levels, not each level in isolation, and is a shared responsibility. However, this level of interest\u2014concern, really\u2014has the risk of isolating the responsibility for healthcare safety and quality to the (relatively) small group of professionals who actually deliver healthcare.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "globalce-119", "words": "1485", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "38", "author": "Souza, William Knob ; Marciano, Marcelo Antunes", "title": "Defects detected in Rigid Endoscopes", "date": "2022", "keywords": "defects; endoscopes; procedures; types", "summary": "5 J Global Clinical Engineering Vol.5 Issue 2: 2022 Received December 2, 2020, accepted July 8, 2022, date of publication July 20, 2022 Defects detected in Rigid Endoscopes By William K. de Souza and Marcelo A. Marciano Hospital Moinhos de Vento, Porto Alegre, RS, Brasil ABSTRACT Surgical procedures using rigid endoscopes are well known for having advantages over conventional surgical proce- dures. The objective of this study was to record and analyze the frequency and types of repairs required for different types of rigid endoscopes used in surgical procedures.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "globalce-121", "words": "5590", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "39", "author": "Carlos de Souza, Josiany; Mehrpour, Sheida; Modolo Ferreira, Matheus; Luduvico Coelho, Yves ; De Castro Vivas, Gustavo; Delisle Rodriguez, Denis; De Assis Santos, Francisco; Freire Bastos-Filho, Teodiano", "title": "Compilation About Adverse Events Recorded in FDA/ USA and ANVISA/Brazil Databases Through Models Available in the Literature Concerning Analysis and Prioritization of Actions for Medical Devices", "date": "2021", "keywords": "actions; analysis; anvisa; brazil; cases; devices; equipment; events; fda; health; maintenance; problems; usa", "summary": "A structured approach for investigating the causes of medical device adverse events. The results show a total of 3,100 cases registered in the FDA for the six types of medical devices addressed in this work and 75 cases registered in the ANVISA/Brazil for two of them.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "globalce-122", "words": "1190", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "34", "author": "Yadin, David", "title": "Editor's Corner", "date": "2021", "keywords": "ces; engineering; future; healthcare", "summary": "Further, this past October\u2019s inau- guration of the new Global Clinical Engineering Alliance3 is yet more evidence that as healthcare and technology are changing so are the needs in our field. As I touch on lessons learned from the past year and on the anticipation for the creative future that has already begun to impact the healthcare industry, it begs the question: what about clinical engineering practitioners and members of the front-line healthcare team heroes?", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "globalce-123", "words": "1164", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "13", "author": "Yadin, David", "title": "Book Review", "date": "2021", "keywords": "book; chapter; clinical; engineering", "summary": "Chapter 5 on Information Technology delivers a useful description of the closer relationship between clinical engineering and the Health IT field with an effective comparison between life cycle management that the engineers/technicians follow and the ITIL practice that the IT practitioners do. The book accomplishes its purpose of providing read- ers with a clear introduction to the body of knowledge that all novices to the field of clinical engineering must understand.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "globalce-124", "words": "5457", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "42", "author": "Martinez-Licona, Fabiola M.; Perez-Ramos, Sergio E.", "title": "A Risk Assessment Method Based on the Failure Analysis of Medical Devices in the Adult Intensive Care Unit", "date": "2021", "keywords": "analysis; care; causes; devices; equipment; failure; icu; medical; mentions; method; priority; risk", "summary": "Keywords \u2013 Risk Assessment, Failure analysis, FMEA, ICU medical equipment, Health Technology Management. Failure analysis is an approach to risk management that allows evaluating quality, in this case, reflected in operation, and provides elements that can be integrated with those used to manage medical equipment, such as schedules and maintenance reports, preventive or corrective maintenance documents.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "globalce-125", "words": "5047", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "56", "author": "Labrada, Alexei; Santos Febles, Elsa; Manuel Antelo, Jos\u00e9", "title": "Comparison of Automatic Sleep Stage Classification Methods for Clinical Use", "date": "2022", "keywords": "accuracy; algorithms; classification; comparison; dataset; eeg; frequency; methods; records; signal; sleep; sleep stage; stage; time; use", "summary": "Fraiwan L, Lweesy K, Khasawneh N, Fraiwan M, Wenz H, Dickhaus H. Classification of sleep stages using multi- wavelet time frequency entropy and LDA. A compara- tive study on classification of sleep stage based on EEG signals using feature selection and classification algorithms.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "globalce-127", "words": "6040", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "45", "author": "Ssekitoleko, Robert Tamale; Arinda , Beryl Ngabirano; Oshabahebwa, Solomon; Namuli, Lucy Kevin; Mugaga, Julius ; Namayega, Catherine; Opolot, Emmanuel Einyat; Baluka, Jackline; Ibingira, Charles; Munabi, Ian Guyton; Joloba, Moses Lutakome", "title": "The Status of Medical Devices and their Utilization in 9 Tertiary Hospitals and 5 Research institutions in Uganda", "date": "2022", "keywords": "devices; engineering; equipment; facilities; health; healthcare; hospitals; lack; number; pieces; research; study; uganda; use; utilization", "summary": "Therefore, collective efforts from medical equipment manufacturers, local distributors, health facilities, and the ministry of health are essential to provide the technical and user guides for medical equipment, put measures in place to provide technical support, source and avail funding for medical equipment management, and carry out routine user training and preventive maintenance. In addition, the ever-increasing sophistication and cost of medical equipment means that access and proper use is limited in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs).", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "globalce-128", "words": "1241", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "43", "author": "Marciano, Marcelo Antunes; A. Santos, Anderson; K. Souza, William", "title": "Application of the AHP Method in Prioritizing the Criteria for the Selection of Calibration Services Provider", "date": "2022", "keywords": "calibration; criteria; equipment; provider", "summary": "Keywords \u2013 Medical equipment, Calibration, Selection service provider, AHP method. ing that the selection criteria and their weights will serve as a reference to choosing the company that obtains the best score, the specific objectives are: to prioritize, give weight and validate the consistency of the evaluation criteria (considering the importance and relevance) for the selection of service providers of calibration of medi- cal- hospital equipment. \u2003", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "globalce-129", "words": "1461", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "53", "author": "Sloane, Elliot", "title": "Editor's Corner", "date": "2021", "keywords": "child; children; engineering; health", "summary": "I have written this editorial to suggest that we, the Global Clinical Engineering community lean in and lock our shoulders together through GCEA, IFMBE CED, the Healthcare Technology Foundation, and our vast network of global colleagues, friends, and partners like WHO, PAHO, UNICEF, and many others to improve Child Health beginning in 2022 and beyond. I would like to share a fresh idea of renewal for us to consider and embrace: creating a \u201cCE Vision 2022 - Year of the Child\u201d action plan.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "globalce-131", "words": "5989", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "22", "author": "Yadin , David ; Calil, Saide ; Pallikarakis, Nicolas ; Poluta, Mladen ; Bergamasco, Stefano ; Clark, Daniel ; Judd, Tom ; Wear, James ; Fukuta, Keiko; Mullally, Shauna ; Morse, Wayne", "title": "Is Clinical Engineering an occupation or profession?", "date": "2021", "keywords": "body; education; engineering; engineers; field; global; knowledge; medical; occupation; practice; profession; training; work", "summary": "We conducted a review of the terms and proceeded to identify if the tenants that are expected to be associated with professional standing are included in applying clinical engineering practices and to what level if it is. This is one of the challenges clinical engineering faces\u2014a lack of sufficient academic preparation programs and uniformity of public expecta- tions from practicing engineers.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "globalce-134", "words": "3659", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "49", "author": "Jin, Jinjiang", "title": "Analysis and Solution of Dental Unit Failure: ", "date": "2022", "keywords": "failure; hospital; maintenance; medical; time; unit; use; valve; water", "summary": "J Global Clinical Engineering Vol.4 Issue 3: 2022 50 Received June 27, 2021, accepted Februry 23, 2022, date of publication March 1, 2022 Analysis and Solution of Dental Unit Failure By J. J. Jin1, H. Liu1, K. Li2, Y. H. Chu1 1 Department of Clinical Medical Engineering, the Second Affiliated Hospital of Zhejiang University School of Medicine, Hangzhou 310009, China 2 Equipment Department, Ningbo Chinese Medicine Hospital, Ningbo 315010, China ABSTRACT Objective: To discuss and analyze the common causes of dental unit failures and summarize maintenance experiences. Although the daily maintenance will increase a certain amount of work and maintenance time, it can effectively reduce the downtime of dental unit failure, reduce the number of repairs, reduce the repair expenditure, pro- long the service life of the equipment, and improve the quality of clinical diagnosis and treatment.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "globalce-135", "words": "1148", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "26", "author": "David, Yadin", "title": "Editor's Corner: The right to repair", "date": "2022", "keywords": "clinical; equipment; repair; right", "summary": "Even politicians engage with this debate, like US Senator Mr. Ron Wyden and US Representative Y. D. Clarke who together introduced a bill in the Senate of the US tilted \u2018\u2018Critical Medical Infrastructure Right-to-Repair Act of 2020\u201d5 attempting to alleviate medical equipment repairs during COVID-19 crisis. However, as medical equipment is used at times in life critical conditions, we must ask the question: who is competent to service such important technology.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "globalce-136", "words": "3570", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "41", "author": "Adio, Oluwasegun O.; Uwadiae, Iyobosa B.; Adewumi, Alaba O.", "title": "COVID-19, a blessing in disguise: the experience of a Nigerian radiotherapy engineer", "date": "2022", "keywords": "covid-19; engineer; engineering; equipment; health; hospitals; lmics; medical; radiotherapy; training; treatment", "summary": "Regrettably, the impact of the country\u2019s $170m medical equipment market on patient care is still underwhelm- ing as large numbers of imported medical equipment are unusable.16 Up to 70% of sophisticated medical equipment im- ported into LMICs is nonfunctional because of a mismatch between the equipment design and the setting where they are used. The predominant factors behind the sector\u2019s poor performance have been identified as (a) inadequately trained technical personnel and (b) the unserviceable condition of medical equipment.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "globalce-137", "words": "1220", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "28", "author": "Ayala, Roberto", "title": "Clinical Engineering Role in the Development of Emergency Use Medical Devices", "date": "2022", "keywords": "development; devices; engineering; use", "summary": "But another one of their roles, probably not so expected, has been their contributions to the development of emergency use medical devices, especially those for respiratory and oxygen therapy. The results from such efforts have paid off by having safe and efficient support equipment while the shortage from commercial products has been receding, by establishing international guidelines for future innovators to take into consideration, and by leaving valuable knowledge in the form of educational and training videos for future generations to consult from. Keywords \u2013 Clinical engineering, medical devices, ventilators, pandemic.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "globalce-140", "words": "466", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "25", "author": "David, Yadin", "title": "Editor's Corner", "date": "2021", "keywords": "congress; engineering", "summary": "J Global Clinical Engineering, Special Issue 4, 2021i Proceedings 4th ICEHTMC 2021 Editor\u2019s Corner 4th International Clinical Engineering & Health Technology Management Congress (ICEHTMC) October 24-26, 2021, Virtual Congress Dear 4th ICEHTMC Congress Community, On behalf of the organizers and sponsors of the 4th International Clinical Engineering & Health Technology Management Congress (ICEHTMC), it is our honor to offer this publication that con- tains all of the abstracts accepted for the oral sessions in this Congress. These proceedings are a great accomplishment that well serve the ongoing and growing Global Clinical Engineering publication task.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "globalce-141", "words": "277", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "44", "author": "Yadin, David ", "title": "Editor's Corner", "date": "2019", "keywords": "engineering", "summary": "J Global Clinical Engineering, Special Issue 2, 20191 Proceedings III ICEHTMC 2019 Editor\u2019s Corner Dear 3rd ICEHTMC Congress Participants, On behalf of the organizers and sponsors of the 3rd International Clinical Engineering and Health Tech- nology Management Congress (ICEHTMC) With the amazing support from the Scientific Program Committee, consisting of several dozen reviewers from all over the world, all the submissions were sub- jected to strict peer review and the event has broken all previous CE congresses\u2019 records for quality and quantity.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "globalce-142", "words": "14394", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "29", "author": "Nkurunziza, Jean Marie Vianney; Udahemuka, Jean Claude; Dusenge, Jean Baptiste; Umutesi, Francine ", "title": "Overview of Trending Medical Technologies", "date": "2022", "keywords": "analytics; applications; blockchain; challenges; covid-19; data; devices; diagnosis; dusenge; engineering; figure; global; growth; healthcare; include; information; intelligence; issue; january; journal; judahemuka; market; medical; nkurunziza; overview; patient; robotics; robots; services; technologies; technology; telemedicine; trending; umutesi; use; vol; vol.4", "summary": "The major market players in wearable medical technologies are: Apple, Fitbit, Jawbone, Misfit, Mykronoz, Samsung, Garmin Ltd, Xiaomi Technology Co. Ltd, Qualcomm Technologies, Inc; Adidas Group, Sony Corporation, Lifesense Group.18 The details on many body-worn devices are presented in Figure 6. Today the actual figures for medical technologies are not available, but it is estimated that 500,000 different types of medical devices are in service.12 From 1960 to 2007, health care expenditure in OECD countries increased, on average, from 3.8\u20139.0% of GDP.1", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "globalce-143", "words": "9327", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "37", "author": "Nkurunziza, Jean Marie Vianney; Udahemuka, Jean Claude; Umutesi, Francine ; Dusenge, Jean Baptiste", "title": "Earthquake Early Warning System: A Solution for Life Rescue in Health Facilities and Risks Mitigation for the population of the Virunga Region", "date": "2022", "keywords": "data; disaster; earthquake; eews; engineering; facilities; february; figure; health; issue; life; magnitude; mitigation; population; region; rescue; risks; solution; system; virunga; vol; warning; warning system; waves", "summary": "Due to the high cost of EEWS infrastructures, it would be paramount to have a cost-effective Earthquake Man- agement Plan which can intervene, face and solve chal- lenges linked to earthquake disasters. As per 2014, about 1,900 volcanoes on Eartare consid- ered active, meaning they show some occasional activity and are likely to erupt again.9 Earthquakes are measured by their magnitude, energy release, and intensity.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "globalce-144", "words": "1004", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "33", "author": "Sharma, Jitendar", "title": "Editor's Corner", "date": "2022", "keywords": "amtz; development; medical; technology", "summary": "Recognizing this shortage, AMTZ is partnering with Skill-Lync to launch the country\u2019s first \u201cExecutive PG Program in Medical Technology.\u201d Built-in a record time of 342 days, AMTZ showcases modern India as a leader in the global medical technology stage.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "globalce-145", "words": "1680", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "35", "author": "Lilley, Lloyd ", "title": "Book Review", "date": "2022", "keywords": "chapter; cybersecurity; devices; medical; risk", "summary": "Although this book is aimed at medical device man- ufacturers (MDM), I feel it is suited to anyone with an interest in medical device cybersecurity, including those working in healthcare delivery organizations. This provides a convenient vehicle to explain the transferra- ble process for assessing cybersecurity risk.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "globalce-146", "words": "2269", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "27", "author": "Judd, Thomas; David, Yadin", "title": "The Growing Role of Clinical Engineering: Merging Technology at the Point of Care", "date": "2022", "keywords": "care; engineering; engineers; global; health; healthcare; point; technology", "summary": "Clinical engineers have a foundational role in this integration, with their unique knowledge related to the management of health technology systems and validation at the point of care. She approached us in 2018 seeking expertise in clinical engineering, which focuses on the point-of-care intersection between the use of health technology and the expertise needed for optimal support and resource management.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "globalce-147", "words": "1377", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "58", "author": "Clark, Daniel ", "title": "Editor's Corner", "date": "2022", "keywords": "engineering; engineers; healthcare", "summary": "Often hidden away in the bowels of the hospital, we dedicated professionals ensure medical equipment is ap- propriate, legal, safe, properly maintained, used correctly by clinical colleagues and available in the right places and in the right amounts; but we do so in quite a non-showy way. My award was for services to Clinical Engi- neering, and whilst I was the one receiving the medal, this award was very much for the team of clinical engineers around me and indeed for clinical engineers everywhere.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "globalce-148", "words": "5592", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "45", "author": "Liu, Jixun; Qiu, Chao; Zuo, Jianxiong; Lou, Xiaomin", "title": "Application of Molecular Sieve Oxygen Generation Mini-plant under Harsh Environment", "date": "2023", "keywords": "air; compressor; design; generation; generation mini; mini; module; oxygen; oxygen generation; plant; pressure; psa; temperature", "summary": "Matrix of Design Basis The landscape of China from the eastern coast to western Tibet is totally different, and the operating condition of PSA oxygen Generation mini-plant is remarkably changed. Their functionalities are introduced as follows: 1. Air compressor module.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "globalce-151", "words": "2619", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "38", "author": "Judd, Tom; David, Yadin; Martinez, Fabiola; Stavrianou, Kallirroi", "title": "Global Clinical Engineering Status: Post-COVID19 Review", "date": "2022", "keywords": "community; covid19; engineering; figure; global; health", "summary": "Pandemic Era Results Prior to COVID19, the Global CE community consisted a team from 100 countries. Global CE Day is an annual recognition of contributions CEs make to healthcare in their countries daily.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "globalce-153", "words": "1259", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "41", "author": "Poluta, Mladen", "title": "Editor's Corner", "date": "2023", "keywords": "assessment; health; hta; technology", "summary": "HTA activities often fall within the domain of specialized units or agencies \u2013 be these in the public or private health sectors - with health economists as lead practitioners. On a related note, the IFMBE\u2019s Health Technology Assessment Division has recently suggested greater involvement of biomedical and clinical engineers in current HTA activities - and further explored related gaps and opportunities - in a recent publication.3 Another European-based in the HTA domain \u2013 EuroScan also known as the International HealthTechScan (i-HTS) has joined Global Clinical Engineering Alliance on a couple of World Health Organization projects.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "globalce-154", "words": "1753", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "28", "author": "David, Yadin", "title": "Engineering Report", "date": "2023", "keywords": "engineering; global; healthcare; national; normal", "summary": "The reality of the new normal was one of the reasons that in May 2022, T. Judd and I published in the National Academy of Engineering Perspectives an article discussing the Growing Role of Clinical Engineering professionals in Merging Technology at the Point of Care 3 sharing with nursing staff new responsibilities. As healthcare delivery systems around the world are increasingly dependent on technology6 for the provision- ing of their services, the expertise of clinical engineering professionals in the development, use, and management of this asset is critical for achieving the best outcomes.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "globalce-155", "words": "4419", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "37", "author": "Tong, Jing; Zheng, Kun; Li, Bin", "title": "Analysis of 2022 Chinese Clinical Engineering Body of Knowledge and Body of Practice Survey", "date": "2023", "keywords": "body; ces; china; engineering; knowledge; management; medical; respondents; work", "summary": "However, there are significant differences in clinical engineering majors around the world, and inde- pendent research on the body of knowledge and practice in clinical engineering is lacking in China. Clinical engineering work in China is mainly focused on managing and maintaining hospital operations, which is also reflected in the main nature of the work of CEs.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "globalce-156", "words": "1123", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "42", "author": "Judd, Thomas; Calil, Saide; David, Yadin", "title": "Book Review", "date": "2023", "keywords": "book; devices; principles", "summary": "In the Preface section of the book, the author writes that \u201cThis book focuses on applications, functions and principles of medical devices\u2026 and uses specific designs and constructions to illustrate the concepts where appropriate.\u201d The primary function of this book is to describe the basic working principles of medical devices used for diagnostic and therapeutic in the healthcare area, though imaging equipment is not included.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "globalce-157", "words": "7236", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "48", "author": "Zisimopoulos, Spilios; Pallikarakis, Nicolas", "title": "An Analysis of Adverse Event Reports in FDA\u2019s MAUDE Database", "date": "2023", "keywords": "action; analysis; database; device; event; fda; healthcare; manufacturer; maude; mds; reporting; reports; safety; years", "summary": "Reporter\u2019s occupation and source of adverse device event reports contained in the FDA\u2019s MAUDE database. The aim of this study is to examine the evolution of medical device adverse event reports, available at the Manufacturer and User facility Device Experience (MAUDE) database of the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and analyze several characteristic parameters of these reports as they evolved during the last three decades.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "globalce-158", "words": "4846", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "28", "author": "Keeley, Dara", "title": "Healthcare Providers\u2019 Readiness to Address Medical Device Cybersecurity within the Irish Healthcare System", "date": "2024", "keywords": "clinical; cybersecurity; device; healthcare; iec; management; networks; providers; risk; security; standard", "summary": "The study research results revealed low knowledge, awareness, and familiarity among research participants with IEC 80001-1 and guidelines on medical device security risk management. Combining medical devices and ICT into a distributed medical device IT system can be a solution to incorporating continuous monitoring from the patient bedside to interoperability with a clinical information system.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "globalce-159", "words": "6088", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "31", "author": "Di Virgilio, Valerio; Bouchard Saindon, Alexia; Becerra Posada, Francisco Cesar Gerardo", "title": "Sustainable Procurement of Medical Devices in an International Context: Part 1: Part 1 - background and definitions", "date": "2023", "keywords": "equipment; health; impact; mds; population; procurement; procurement project; project; quality; services; sustainability; use", "summary": "The definitions used by the four main agencies in health procurement (UNICEF, UNOPS, WHO, and UNDP) are centered on environmental, social and economic sustainability, in the sense of the environmentally friendly quality of the MD, the socially acceptable conditions of its production and its economic impact on local communities. This means that the work of the technical leads in MD procurement projects has a potential impact on the lives of millions of people.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "globalce-160", "words": "3409", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "41", "author": "Gonz\u00e1lez Campos, Edgar; Rodr\u00edguez Trujillo, F\u00e1tima Jaqueline; V\u00e1zquez Rodriguez, Andrea Elizabeth; Ram\u00edrez Mendiola, Catherine Jazm\u00edn", "title": "Application of statistical processes control for the performance improvement of a clinical engineering department ", "date": "2023", "keywords": "control; data; department; engineering; equipment; improvement; processes; verification", "summary": "By adopt- ing an approach based on data and scientific evidence, clinical engineering departments can achieve more efficient and effective management of their processes, contributing to higher-quality medical care and patient safety. 29 J Global Clinical Engineering Vol.6 Issue 1: 2023 Received July 24, 2023, accepted October 13 2023, date of publication Decemvber 5, 2023 Application of statistical processes control for the performance improvement of a clinical engineering department By Edgar Gonz\u00e1lez Campos1, Andrea Elizabeth V\u00e1zquez Rodriguez2, F\u00e1tima Jaqueline Rodr\u00edguez Trujillo2, Catherine Jazm\u00edn Ram\u00edrez Mendiola2 1 Instituto de Salud P\u00fablica del Estado de Guanajuato, Mexico 2 Divisi\u00f3n de Ciencias e Ingenier\u00edas, Universidad de Guanajuato, Mexico ABSTRACT This article addresses the fundamental role of Statistical Process Control (SPC) as a quality tool in the field of clinical engineer- ing, to improve and optimize internal processes.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "globalce-161", "words": "5778", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "31", "author": "Mijares, Rodrigo", "title": "Clinical Engineering and health policies in Venezuela: challenges and achievements in a changing political context", "date": "2023", "keywords": "challenges; context; engineering; health; health policies; hospital; issue; management; mijares; policies; quality; research; rodrigo; system; technologies; ugts; usb; venezuela", "summary": "The second phase includes the relationship between technologies and public health policies. Our study considers data from various sources and finds relevant differences between territorial entities when designing national public policies based on evidence.17 Throughout our work in public health policies related to the cardiovascular system, we have observed a lack of evaluation and even less in selecting appropriate medical technologies.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "globalce-164", "words": "3586", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "35", "author": "Liu, Wanrong; Li, Bin; Ji, Zhiyong", "title": "Internet of Things and Digital Twin Technology-Based Management System of Medical Equipment", "date": "2023", "keywords": "data; december; digital; equipment; internet; iot; management; system; technology; twin; use", "summary": "Methods: The Internet of Things and digital twin technology are applied to intelligent medical equipment management as the current standard of medical equipment management. However, most existing hospitals have adopted IoT technology to track patients\u2019 health status, and there is a lack of understanding of the use of IoT technology for medical equipment management.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "globalce-165", "words": "5973", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "33", "author": "Di Virgilio, Valerio; Bouchard Saindon, Alexia; Becerra Posada, Francisco", "title": "Sustainable procurement of medical devices in an international context - Part 2", "date": "2023", "keywords": "assessment; bcel; conditions; equipment; health; mds; needs; needs assessment; procurement; procurement project; project; sustainability", "summary": "Life expectancy versus health expenditure per- capita in 2019.10 Di Virgilio, Bouchard Saindon, Becerra Posada: Sustainable Procurement of Medical Devices in an International Context - Part 2 J Global Clinical Engineering Vol.6 Issue 1: 2023 22 of national regulations and the acceptance (or not) of in- ternational standards in MDs procurement projects. The efforts of WHO and the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO)13 to improve the capacities of NRAs in develop- ing countries shall also be considered and monitored as part of the BCEL action in MDs procurement projects.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "globalce-168", "words": "6749", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "39", "author": "Di Virgilio, Valerio; Becerra Posada, Francisco; Bouchard Saindon, Alexia", "title": "Sustainable procurement of medical devices in an international context - Part 3: Assessment of local and lifelong use conditions", "date": "2024", "keywords": "assessment; bcel; clinical; conditions; equipment; installation; international; mds; procurement; project; requirements; use", "summary": "In a previous article,1 sustainability principles and their importance in MD procurement projects, especially in developing countries, has been described. A theoretical concept with three fundamental pillars was proposed to improve the sustainability in MD procurement projects and address the risk of purchasing MDs that will not be used by local clinical personnel.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "globalce-169", "words": "6286", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "37", "author": "Ramesh, Sambhu; Nithyavathani J, Annie; Syed, Moinudeen; Kachroo, Kavita; Sharma, Jitendra Kumar; Priyadarshini, A.; Latha, Penta Sneha; Chowdary, Sushmita Roy", "title": "A Landscape Study to Determine the Innovation Mortality Rate in Health Technology Innovations Across the Globe: Global Health Innovation Mortality in Health Technology Innovation ", "date": "2024", "keywords": "agencies; approval; compendium; devices; global; health; health innovations; healthcare; innovations; medical; rate; study; technology", "summary": "Health innovations supported through global innovation agencies Medical devices account for the maximum number of health innovations (32 of 67). It highlights the evaluation of health innovations from 2015 to 2022, focusing on their success rate based on health agency approval.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "globalce-170", "words": "362", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "32", "author": "Yadin, David", "title": "Editor's Corner", "date": "2023", "keywords": "engineering", "summary": "November 10-13, 2023, Visakhapatnam, India Dear 5th ICEHTMC Congress Community, On behalf of the organizers and the organizers and sponsors of the 5th International Clinical En- gineering & Health Technology Management Congress (ICEHTMC), it is our honor to offer this publication that contains all of the abstracts accepted for the oral and poster sessions in this Congress. Conducting a hybrid style international Congress presents a different stage and greater opportunity to engage with more members within our field as well as with other healthcare stakeholders interested in professional development, scientific debate, networking, collaboration, strengthening friendships, and learning more about best practices from faraway places.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "globalce-171", "words": "1026", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "32", "author": "David, Yadin", "title": "Editor's Corner", "date": "2023", "keywords": "engineering; information; journal", "summary": "I encourage you to find more information about the Journal by visiting the website www.GlobalCE.org and at the Global Clinical Engineering Alliance website un- der the 2023 State of the Alliance State of the Alliance report. When you visit the website, you will find rich and interesting content that includes: Editor\u2019s Corner, Engineering Report, Book Review, and manuscripts rang- ing in subjects from Molecular Sieve Oxygen Generation and Procurement of Medical Devices in International Context to Clinical Engineering Status in Post COVID-19 and Analysis of Dental Unit Failure as well as COVID019 Experience of Nigerian Radiotherapy Engineer.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "globalce-175", "words": "4825", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "46", "author": "Chua, Hui Ling; Huong, Audrey", "title": "Deep Learning and Photoacoustic Technology for Microcirculation Classification: Comparison Between Smoking and Nonsmoking Groups", "date": "2024", "keywords": "alexnet; blood; classification; figure; learning; lstm; microcirculation; models; nonsmoking; photoacoustic; signals; smoking; study", "summary": "The peaks of PA signals are linearly associated with the sample properties, while the temporal characteristic of PA signals would disclose the physiological proper- ties of the tissues. Similar works were carried out by Liakat et al.12 and Sei et al.13; the former developed an in-vivo noninvasive glucose sensor to predict glucose concentration using the least square regression technique and based on the photoacoustic measurement in the skin, whereas the latter study used regression technique to determine blood saturation using PA signals of blood samples.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "globalce-176", "words": "5605", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "56", "author": "Amoguis, Jenina R.; Lingon, Mabel A.; Arboleda, Edwin R.; Cahigan, Airah", "title": "Development of a Voice-Controlled Wheelchair for Physically Impaired Individuals", "date": "2024", "keywords": "device; figure; individuals; microcontroller; motor; recognition; sensors; speaker; user; voice; wheelchair", "summary": "Specifically, this study aimed to (a) design and construct the circuitry of the device; (b) modify a standard wheelchair; (c) integrate the Easy VR 3 shield, ultrasonic sensor, microcontroller, 12V wiper motor, and standard wheelchair for the device; (d) develop a program for the device; (e) test and evaluate the performance of the system through pilot testing; and (f) determine the cost of the developed system. While the current study demonstrates the feasibility of voice-controlled wheelchairs, future research should focus on improving the accuracy and robustness of voice recognition systems and the incorporation of sensory feedback mecha- nisms, such as haptic feedback or auditory cues.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "globalce-181", "words": "4059", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "38", "author": "Jiang, Lei", "title": "Application and Innovation of 3D Printing in Medical Equipment Maintenance", "date": "2024", "keywords": "application; equipment; figure; layer; maintenance; materials; model; parts; printing; technology", "summary": "With 3D printing technology, medical institutions can immediately manufacture the required parts without waiting.13 At the same time, 3D printing can also be cus- tomized according to the specific needs of the design to meet the personalized requirements of different devices. * Corresponding Author Email: ljxrmyy@163.com ABSTRACT With the continuous progress of technology, 3D printing technology is setting off a revolution in medical equipment maintenance.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "globalce-182", "words": "4731", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "38", "author": "Houinsou, Bokpe Joanie; Houoessouvo, Roland C.; Assogba, Kokou M.; Medenou, Daton", "title": "Characterization of Odor Profiles Through the Simplified Binary Matching Algorithm for Disease Diagnostics", "date": "2025", "keywords": "algorithm; binary; body; chromosome; detection; disease; figure; matching; odor; profiles; target", "summary": "Body odors vary among individuals due to various factors, and perceptions of body odor differ across cultures.9 Early Detection of Diseases The early detection of diseases plays a crucial role in preserving health and well-being. The study\u2019s results indicate a strong correlation between body odor profiles, volatile organic compounds, and disease presence, thereby opening new avenues for non-invasive and cost-effective diagnostic methods.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "globalce-183", "words": "938", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "36", "author": "David, Yadin", "title": "Editor's Corner", "date": "2024", "keywords": "competency; engineering; healthcare", "summary": "2. Is Clinical Engineering an Occupation or Profession?, Y. David et al, Global Clinical Engineering Journal, Vol. 4, Issue 2, 2021. Global Clinical Engineering Alliance and the Global Clinical Engineering Journal will look forward to your response.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "globalce-184", "words": "3571", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "35", "author": "Ibrahim Eisa, Badria; Yagoub Esmail, Mohammed", "title": "Design a Mobile Application for the Maintenance of Hemodialysis Machines using Flutter Framework", "date": "2024", "keywords": "app; application; engineers; figure; flutter; framework; hemodialysis; machines; maintenance; mobile", "summary": "The recent proliferation of mobile applications has proven beneficial in several fields, particularly healthcare. This enables medical professionals to take preventive measures swiftly, potentially saving lives in critical care and emergencies.10 Furthermore, mobile applications are sometimes uti- lized in telemedicine technologies, such as the mHealth applications operating in India as detailed in a recent study.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "globalce-189", "words": "3598", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "27", "author": "Namdag, Gerelt-Od; Luvsan, Munkh-Erdene; Dashtseren, Amarsaikhan", "title": "A Study on the Legal Environment of Medical Devices and Enhancing the Regulatory System", "date": "2025", "keywords": "devices; engineer; equipment; health; healthcare; mongolia; regulations; system", "summary": "We concluded that there is a need to improve the legal and regulatory environment to establish unified policies and regulations for registration, quality, safety, optimal asset planning, and maintenance management, particularly for medical equipment. State budget investments in medical equipment have varied over the years: in 2019, USD 2.4 million were al- located; in 2020, USD 11.2 million; in 2021, USD 32.7 million; in 2022, USD 4.3 million; and in 2023, USD 3.5 million.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "globalce-191", "words": "2725", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "37", "author": "Zhao, Rongjiao; Yang, Cong", "title": "Discussing the Clinical Value of Full-Range Autofocus Endoscopic Cameras", "date": "2025", "keywords": "autofocus; cameras; endoscopic; lens; lenses; liquid; technology; zoom", "summary": "The primary objective of this study is to analyze the application of autofocus and zoom technologies in en- doscopes, and discuss their positive impacts on medical diagnosis and treatment. Liquid lenses, particularly those utilizing electrowetting, offer a tunable focal length by adjusting the curvature of a liquid surface.8 These lenses have been successfully incorporated into zoom systems, such as the design by Park and Park,9 which utilized liquid lenses to achieve variable focal lengths for compact mobile cameras.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "globalce-192", "words": "1096", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "49", "author": "David, Yadin", "title": "Book Review", "date": "2024", "keywords": "author; book; engineering", "summary": "Similarly, I felt it may help other trained engineering professionals to better understand their challenges, and if there is path for improvement that they can prescribe to, then it was worth publishing this review of a non-technical book helping everyone to em- brace qualities that according to Dr. Peck leads to better health, better relationships, and richer life experiences. However, from my experience in general, clinical engi- neering practitioners\u2019 shy emotion-associated verbal expression and Dr. Peck, the author, writes in the intro- duction to his book \u201c\u2026 perhaps because it was needed, despite its flaws, there is no question in my mind that as I wrote the book in the solitude of my cramped little office I had help.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "globalce-197", "words": "3483", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "32", "author": "Puin Avila, Samantha; Janvier, Marie-Ange; Ibey, Andrew", "title": "Assessment and Capital Planning of a Regional Clinical Engineering Department Test Equipment Inventory", "date": "2024", "keywords": "cheo; devices; engineering; equipment; inventory; regional; reliability; table; test; use", "summary": "CHEO\u2019s regional program faces a challenge managing a fleet of 345 pieces of test equipment, mainly due to a lack of standardization. Keywords\u2014CMMS, Test equipment, Maintenance, Weighting factor, Reliability, Life expectancy, Usage classification, Fre- quency of use, Inventory assessment.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "globalce-198", "words": "4236", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "51", "author": "Fiagbedzi, Emmanuel; Hasford, Francis; Tagoe, Samuel Nii", "title": "Dose Verification for Linac-Based Stereotactic Radiosurgery planned at Different Prescription Isodose Levels Using Delta4 Phantom+ ", "date": "2024", "keywords": "delta4; dose; gamma; http://globalce.org; passing; phantom+; plans; rate; srs; stereotactic; treatment", "summary": "It is a quickly set-up device, suitable for SRS treatment verification and allows for real-time measurement. While some mistakes can be found through pre-treatment dose verification, called patient-specific quality assurance (PSQA), others during the acceptance and commission stage.7,8 Pre-treatment verification confirms that the treat- ment dose, position, and volume are as planned.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "globalce-199", "words": "1356", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "12", "author": "Zaman, Nata", "title": "Editor's Corner", "date": "2024", "keywords": "equipment; ffe; healthcare; hospital; patient", "summary": "Ultimately this not only enhances the functionality and efficiency of hospital facilities but also strengthens trust, collaboration, and resilience within the healthcare system. By integrating efficient FFE selection, strategic placement, proactive maintenance, and technological innovation, hospitals can cultivate environments that prioritise operational excellence and elevate the standard of patient care.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "globalce-200", "words": "5671", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "49", "author": "Naznin, Afroza; Kadir, Muhammad Abdul; Begum, Fatima; Rabbani, Khondkar Siddique-e", "title": "Comparative Performance of Low-Cost Portable Scanner in Pregnancy Profile Ultrasonography: A Promising Adjunct to Telemedicine", "date": "2024", "keywords": "bpd; cost; crl; device; figure; measurements; portable; pregnancy; standard; study; trimester; ultrasound; weeks", "summary": "Portable ultrasound devices are par- ticularly valuable in low-resource settings, such as rural areas or underserved communities, where access to advanced medical facilities is limited. The use of portable ultrasound devices in low-and middle-income countries: a systematic review of the literature.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "globalce-203", "words": "5479", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "43", "author": "Jia, Dingding; Zhang, Haowei; You, Yang; Li, Yiming; Qian, Shunxin; Tao, Qilin; Su, Qi; Lu, Heqing", "title": "A Decision Support System for Rational Deployment of Medical Equipment Based on Real-world Data", "date": "2024", "keywords": "clinical; data; decision; deployment; equipment; equipment deployment; hospital; information; merdis; number; pathway; quantity; system", "summary": "According to the frequency of clinical pathways on medical equipment and the working ability of the equipment, the theoretical minimum number of medical equipment deployments in different influencing factors can be calculated by the formula, and the recommended deployment quantity of medical equipment can be obtained through the calcula- tion method of big data. Indeed, there is a body of domestic literature on the methods of medical equipment deployment.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "globalce-206", "words": "3121", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "36", "author": "Cano-Verdugo, Guillermo; De la Garza-Ramos, Myriam Ang\u00e9lica; Temitope Olabisi, Omosebi; Liu, Yinli; N\u00fa\u00f1ez-Rocha, Georgina Mayela; \u00c1vila-Ort\u00edz, Mar\u00eda Natividad; Hern\u00e1ndez-Ruiz, Karina Janett", "title": "Protocol for a Systematic Review on the Application of Robotics in Orthodontic Treatments", "date": "2025", "keywords": "data; orthodontics; protocol; review; robotics; study; technology; treatments", "summary": "This study aimed to summarize the methods employed for a systematic review of robotics applications in or- thodontics. This approach strengthens the evidence base and enhances the understanding of robotics applications in orthodontics, supporting future advancements in the field.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "globalce-21", "words": "4529", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "41", "author": "Judd, Thomas; Hernandez, Antonio; Gentles, William; Calil, Saide Jorge", "title": "Clinical Engineering/Health Technology Management 2015 Global Update", "date": "2018", "keywords": "clinical; countries; country; engineering; et al; global; health; hta; htm; htp; htr; management; moh; technology; update", "summary": "Clinical Engineering/Health Technology Management 2015 Global Update 7 J Global Clinical Engineering Special Issue 1: 4-14; 2018 Global HTM Seminars: Further progress in HTM has been documented in a series of Seminars presented from 1991-2015 by ACCE and WHO-PAHO.8 As a result of these seminars, progress was seen in the following areas (with aggregate evidence noted below summarized): \u2022 HT Policy (HTP) developed, e.g., in 27 of 51 countries (>50%) \u2022 HTM training provided (HR), e.g., 40+ of 51 countries (>80%) \u2022 National professional societies created; e.g., in 20 of 51 (~40%) WHO Global Forums: Further progress in HTM was documented in the WHO 2nd Global Forum on Medical Devices, 2013 (2GFMD).9 This progress was documented in a series of country reports presented at the Forum, and is summarized in the following tables (Tables 1A-D). The main elements of developing country HTM and its key health system relationships.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "globalce-210", "words": "8454", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "20", "author": "Chauhan, Shikha Baghel; Gaur, Radhakrishan; Akram, Afifa; Singh, Indu", "title": "Artificial Intelligence-Driven Insights for Regulatory Intelligence in Medical Devices: Evaluating EMA, FDA, and CDSCO Frameworks", "date": "2025", "keywords": "artificial; cdsco; data; devices; ema; fda; frameworks; guidelines; imdrf; intelligence; learning; machine; regulatory; safety; software; use", "summary": "As long as AI medical devices safeguard patient data and offer safe access to it for unauthorized parties as defined by new legislation, they can continue to be relevant in accordance with the ethical and open principles outlined by the IMDRF. Regulatory guidelines for software and AI medical devices.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "globalce-213", "words": "10293", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "43", "author": "Prasad, Manav; Madhual, Deepshikha; Sachan, Kriti; Perwez, Afshan; Tiwari, Shivani; Negiv, Baldev", "title": "Effectiveness of Robotic Rehabilitation in the Management of Stroke Patients\u2014A Literature Review", "date": "2025", "keywords": "assessment; balance; cognitive; et al; function; gait; group; improvements; limb; motor; patients; rehabilitation; robotic; stroke; stroke patients; study; test; therapy; training; weeks", "summary": "Additionally, while both groups showed improvements in walking ability (measured by FAC), the RAGT+CPT group showed more significant improvement in static balance (measured by BBS), and upper body movement abilities (measured by FMA-UE) improved slightly in both groups.17 Kim et al., examined the effects of \u201cEffects of robot- assisted gait training for stroke patients\u201d18, utilizing 57 J Global Clinical Engineering Vol.7 Issue 1: 2025 Prasad, Madhual, Sachan, Perwez, Tiwari, Negi: Effectiveness of Robotic Rehabilitation in the Management of Stroke Patients\u2014A Literature Review robotic devices including the Gait Trainer, Lokomat, Chicago, United States, and Morning Walk, Korea. After five weeks of treatment, participants experienced improved balance and coordination in walk- ing, stronger leg movements, increased ankle flexibility on the weaker side, and enhanced overall walking speed, balance control, arm function, and cognitive abilities.13 Heng et al., in 2020, conducted a study titled \u201cChanges in Balance, Gait, and Electroencephalography after Robot- Assisted Gait Training in Chronic Stroke Patients\u201d.14", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "globalce-227", "words": "8252", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "35", "author": "Ribeiro Brand\u00e3o, Mariana; Garcia Ojeda, Renato", "title": "Application of Usability Techniques in Medical Devices in Health Technology Management: A Rapid Review", "date": "2025", "keywords": "application; design; development; devices; engineering; equipment; factors; health; human; life; management; review; techniques; technologies; technology; usability; usability techniques; use; user", "summary": "Schraagen, J.M. and Verhoeven, F. Methods for studying medical device technology and practitioner cognition: the case of user-interface issues with infusion pumps. Intervention 1.2 Does not apply usability engineering techniques and/ or does not describe the technique.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "globalce-229", "words": "6905", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "42", "author": "KUMAR, S. PRAVIN; Kumar, Akash; Amba Prasanna, Anusha", "title": "Case Study: Augmented Reality Enabled Mental Health Chatbot", "date": "2025", "keywords": "application; challenges; chatbot; data; fine; health; health chatbot; kumar; language; llama; mental; model; reality; study; user", "summary": "This is particularly advantageous for time-sensitive tasks and applications requiring rapid processing, like mental health chatbots. The recent Llama 3 model launched by Meta represents a more advanced and efficient iteration of large language models, offering significant potential for future applica- tions in the development of mental health chatbots.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "globalce-23", "words": "5989", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "33", "author": "David, Yadin; Jahnke, Ernest Gus", "title": "Planning Medical Technology Management in a Hospital", "date": "2018", "keywords": "capital; care; cost; engineering; equipment; evaluation; health; hospital; management; medical; planning; process; program; technology; technology management", "summary": "If we do then the hospital will be able to make informed decisions regarding deployment of new technology as well as monitor its utilization.3 The need for clinical engineering involvement in such a team became evident when the following problems were repeatedly encountered: \u2022 recently purchased equipment not sufficiently used \u2022 ongoing user problems with equipment \u2022 excessive downtime and ownership cost \u2022 lack of compliance with accreditation agencies and regulations \u2022 high percentage of equipment failing and awaiting repair \u2022 maintenance costs emerging as a large single expense \u2022 medical equipment upgrading, replacement, and planning are not intertwined \u2022 use errors and near-miss events A further analysis of these symptoms using a system performance analysis technique would likely reveal.13: \u2022 a lack of a central clearing house to collect, index and monitor medical technology performance for resolv- ing current issues and for future planning purposes \u2022 the absence of strategy for identifying emerging technologies for potential integration \u2022 the lack of a systematic plan for conducting technol- ogy assessment, thereby not being able to maximize the benefits from prioritization of the deployment of available technology \u2022 an inability to benefit from the organization\u2019s experi- ence with a particular type of technology or supplier \u2022 the random replacement of medical technologies, rather than a systematic protocol based on a set of well-developed criteria \u2022 the lack of integration of technology forecasting into the strategic planning of the hospital \u2022 limited opportunities for interdisciplinary exchange between engineering-related and clinically-related professionals To address these issues a technology assessment plan was initiated with the following six objectives: (1) Accu- mulate pertinent information regarding decisions about medical equipment. However, in their attempt to improve allocation of resources to medical equipment, the majority of health care executives have been making significant capital expenditure decisions with growing involvement of clinical engineering expertise and cost- of-ownership information.3 The concept of management of capital assets is a far-reaching one that goes beyond merely acquiring or maintaining medical equipment and generally includes market-based demand forecasting as a method of estimating future demand for a health care organization\u2019s services.4 Changing payment methodology and existing inventory operations and maintenance costs are important factors in planning the deployment of new equipment; these are management issues that merge together in the clinical environment.5", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "globalce-24", "words": "1932", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "36", "author": "Ibarra, Andrea Garcia; Berrio, Paula; Trujillo, Maximiliano; Salazar, Francia; Garcia, Leonardo", "title": "Regional Nodes of Colombian Clinical Engineers", "date": "2018", "keywords": "engineers; health; hospitals; mem; nodes", "summary": "33 J Global Clinical Engineering Special Issue 1: 33-36; 2018 Received March 1, 2018, accepted March 19, 2018, date of publication March 25, 2018 Regional Nodes of Colombian Clinical Engineers By A Garcia-Ibarra1, P Berrio2, M Trujillo-Toro3, F Salazar4, L Garcia5 1External consultan, Ministerio de Salud y Protecci\u00f3n Social, Bogot\u00e1, Colombia 2Hospital Pablo Tob\u00f3n Uribe, Medell\u00edn, Colombia 3,4Hospital San Vicente Fundaci\u00f3n, Medell\u00edn, Colombia 5Fundaci\u00f3n Valle del Lili, Cali, Colombia ABSTRACT The Health Technology Management (HTM) staff in small or remote hospitals can have difficulty accessing good practice information, so we have created a simple, convenient, and accessible networking model for clinical engineers in Colombia, called Regionals Nodes. http://www.globalce.org http://www.globalce.org Garcia-Ibarra, Berrio, Trujillo-Toro, Salazar and Garcia: Regional Nodes of Colombian Clinical Engineers J Global Clinical Engineering Special Issue 1: 33-36; 2018 34 INTRoduCTIoN", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "globalce-241", "words": "3034", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "29", "author": "Arsenidis, Arsenios; Moraitopoulos, Alexandros; Athanasiou, Alkinoos; Vildiridis, Alexandros; Bamidis, Panagiotis; Stefaneas, Petros; Astaras, Alexandros", "title": "Novel Functional Electrical Stimulation Parameter Optimization for Neurorehabilitation Using Both Conventional and AI Techniques ", "date": "2024", "keywords": "acceleration; frequencies; frequency; http://globalce.org; muscle; rehabilitation; session; stimulation; system; voltage", "summary": "Conversely, 125 Hz can be utilized as optimal frequency adhering to the same logic. This is apparent both when examining optimal frequencies as well as when comparing the mean value and standard deviation of maximum acceleration for each session.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "globalce-243", "words": "1388", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "36", "author": "Tedeschi, Roberto; Boccaleoni, Paolo; Donati, Danilo", "title": "Navigating Thumb Ligament Pathology: From Injury to Recovery", "date": "2025", "keywords": "collateral; injuries; joint; ligament; thumb", "summary": "Biome- chanical modeling and simulation play a crucial role in understanding ligament stress in the thumb. Management and evaluation of ulnar collateral ligament injuries of the thumb.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "globalce-244", "words": "6365", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "60", "author": "Dias, Am\u00e2ndio; Paulo Pires; Leandro Santana; Paulo Marques; M\u00e1rio Espada; Fernando Santos; Eduardo Jorge Silva; Diogo Teixeira", "title": "Feasibility and Reliability of the My Jump 2 Smartphone Application in Measuring Peak Power, Flight Time and Jump Height in Physically Active Subjects during Two Different Jumping Tasks", "date": "2025", "keywords": "cmj; flight; height; icc; jump; jump height; mj2; obs; platform; power; reliability; time", "summary": "Typical error and CV analysis indicated low variability for SJ, whereas CMJ jump height showed greater vari- ability. Mechanical power, a crucial component of sports performance, is often derived from jump height, as both SJ and CMJ require athletes to generate substantial mechanical work in a short duration.3", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "globalce-249", "words": "3248", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "33", "author": "Arvanitidis, Athanasios; Mitsopoulos, Konstantinos; Fiska, Vasiliki; Athanasiou, Alkinoos; Bamidis, Panagiotis D.", "title": "Design of a Normative sEMG Database for Biometric Comparison in Rehabilitation Research ", "date": "2024", "keywords": "clinical; data; dbs; electromyography; http://globalce.org; normative; nosql; semg; study; validation", "summary": "Jeppesen, T.D., Levison, L., Codeluppi, L., et al. Quantita- tive electromyography: Normative data in paraspinal muscles. This study aims to tackle the lack of standardized DBs for sEMG data, which restricts their comparability and, as a result, hampers their clinical utility.4,7\u20139 The current study aims to fill this void, by creating a NoSQL DB with normative sEMG values of the upper body.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "globalce-25", "words": "2100", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "51", "author": "Lin, Z K; Zheng, Kun", "title": "Survey and Analysis of Current State of Ventilator Alarms in the Intensive Care Unit", "date": "2018", "keywords": "alarms; engineering; intervention; management; survey; ventilator", "summary": "Based on the above background, this paper presents an analysis method that integrates the statistical design of the survey, the investigation experiment, and the statistical analysis of the data, and analyzes the state of ventilator alarms in the neonatal ICU in a children hospital. http://www.globalce.org http://www.globalce.org mailto:291567468@qq.com Lin, Zheng, Shen, Zheng, and Wu: Survey and Analysis of Current State of Ventilator Alarms in the Intensive Care Unit J Global Clinical Engineering Special Issue 1: 37-41; 2018 38 MATERIALS AND METHOD Based on the literature review and our experience, alarms can be categorized into meaningful alarms and meaningless alarms. The article aims are a survey and analysis of the current state of ventilator alarms in an ICU.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "globalce-252", "words": "3566", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "31", "author": "Liontou, Agapi Konstantina; Zisimopoulos, Spilios; Dermitzakis, Aris", "title": "Leveraging Web Scraping and Api Integration for Efficient Medical Device Data Management ", "date": "2024", "keywords": "code; data; device; gmdn; information; integration; names; scraping; udis; web", "summary": "BACKGROUND In the modern era, accurate and timely management of medical device data is essential for various stakehold- ers in the healthcare industry. Our comprehensive validation process involves veri- fying GMDN names, selecting the most prevalent name when multiple names exist, and aligning device attributes across sources, ultimately enhancing the reliability of medical device data.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "globalce-26", "words": "4133", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "43", "author": "Hoglund, David; Varga, Vince", "title": "Building a Reliable Wireless Medical Device Network", "date": "2018", "keywords": "design; device; medical; monitoring; network; patient; telemetry; wireless; wlan", "summary": "The following will discuss best practices for wireless network design based upon application requirements; but also the protection of any data regarding cybersecurity requirements. For the past several decades networked bedside (or acute care) patient monitoring was confined to propri- etary, standalone networks for communication from the bedside monitor to the central station.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "globalce-260", "words": "8129", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "39", "author": "Ivanova, Veronika; Vasilev, Plamen; Boneva, Ani", "title": "Training of Surgical Skills by a Three-Dimensional Augmented Model Response During Instrument Interactions Simulation", "date": "2025", "keywords": "available; figure; force; information; instrument; interactions; laparoscopic; liver; medical; model; reality; response; simulation; skills; surgeon; system; tissue; tool; training", "summary": "The simulation programs effectively transferred acquired skills to real-world scenarios, demonstrating the system\u2019s potential for enhancing surgical training. mailto:iwanowa.w@abv.bg mailto:mulugetamideksa@gmail.com 89 J Global Clinical Engineering Vol.7 Issue 3: 2025 Ivanova, Vasilev, Boneva: Training of Surgical Skills by a 3D Augmented Liver Model Response During Instrument Interactions Simulation Keywords\u2014Augmented reality, Training program simulation (TPS), Software applications, Surgical robotics, Surgical training.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "globalce-261", "words": "1999", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "37", "author": "Lyssas , George; Mitsopoulos, Konstantinos; Zantzas , Dimitris; Kalfas, Anestis; Bamidis, Panagiotis D.", "title": "Human Muscle State Machine using Electromyography Classification with Machine Learning", "date": "2024", "keywords": "classification; http://globalce.org; learning; machine; model; muscle; signal; states", "summary": "In conclusion, the reliability and the adaptability of the Random Forest model is the best choice for the recogni- tion and classification of EMG signals to muscle states, in this application with a small sample size. Gokgoz, E. and Subasi, A. Comparison of decision tree algorithms for EMG signal classification using DWT. Biomed Signal Process Control.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "globalce-262", "words": "6008", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "43", "author": "Sharma, Shalini; Singh, Maninder; Pradhan , Keerti Bhusan", "title": "Balancing Innovation and Safety in Digital Healthcare", "date": "2025", "keywords": "articles; cybersecurity; digital; et al; healthcare; https://doi; innovation; intelligence; patient; review; risks; safety; systems; technologies; technology; telemedicine", "summary": "Boutros, P., Kassem, N., Nieder, J. et al. Li, E., Clarke, J., Ashrafian, H., et al.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "globalce-266", "words": "3101", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "41", "author": "Margaritis, Filippos; Mitsopoulos, Konstantinos; Nizamis, Kostas; Athanasiou, Alkinoos; Bamidis, Panagiotis D.", "title": "Kinematic and Dynamic Analysis of Lower Limb Movement: Towards the Design of a Wearable Rehabilitation Assistant Device ", "date": "2024", "keywords": "analysis; frame; http://globalce.org; jacobian; joint; kinematic; limb; matrix; motion", "summary": "Keywords\u2014Lower limb kinematic analysis, Lower limb dynamic analysis, OpenSim, OpenSenseRT system, IMU inverse kinematics, Real-time inverse kinematics, Real-time motion analysis, Wearable rehabilitation assistant device. Range of Motion (RoM) of lower limb joints.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "globalce-267", "words": "2536", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "24", "author": "Moraitopoulos, Alexandros; Mitsopoulos, Konstantinos; Kemanetzi, Christina; Bamidis, Panagiotis; Astaras, Alexandros", "title": "A Novel Dermatological Diagnosis Support Device Based on Electrical Impedance Spectroscopy: (DermaSense)", "date": "2024", "keywords": "data; dermasense; device; electrodes; http://globalce.org; impedance; measurements; prototype; skin", "summary": "The high prevalence of skin diseases in adults aged 70 and older. Pattern of skin diseases in children attending a dermatology clinic in a referral hospital in Wolaita Sodo, southern Ethiopia.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "globalce-269", "words": "3381", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "30", "author": "Tsimperi, Chrysoula; Michmizos, Konstantinos; Hadjileontiadis, Leontios", "title": "Deciphering Astroglial Dynamics and Interactions Through Multi-Scale Computational Modeling in Multiple Sclerosis Evolution", "date": "2024", "keywords": "astrocytes; ca2; cell; conduction; figure; http://globalce.org; model; morphology; study; volume", "summary": "Astrocytes are recognized as significant contributors to the disease\u2019s pathogenesis. Through the advancement of comprehension about the involvement of astrocytes in the pathophysiology of MS, this study explores the processes underlying the disease.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "globalce-270", "words": "6651", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "43", "author": "Tanis, Theodoros S.; Chatzigeorgiou, Chryssoula; Simeli, Ioanna; Stalika, Evangelia", "title": "Digital Transformation Management in Health Services: Health Professionals Perceptions as an Implementation Factor", "date": "2024", "keywords": "age; applications; digital; dimension; ease; health; http://globalce.org; learning; mean; professionals; technologies; transformation; use", "summary": "It appears that the effort they are expected to put into learning and properly using digital technologies is often cited as a key factor affecting the motivation of health workers to adopt them.24 Healthcare workers can be empowered, adopt and use new digital technologies in environments where they align with their needs, work- load, training, and skills. However, increasing the awareness, knowledge, and skills of health professionals in these technologies before their implementation is necessary to increase their adoption.31 Our findings also showed that professionals with a lower level of knowledge of new digital technologies show a higher perceived ease of use and learning as well as their usefulness, than expected.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "globalce-272", "words": "7402", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "41", "author": "Pandria, Niki", "title": "Validating the ID-GAMING e-Training Toolkit for People with Intellectual Disabilities in Greece", "date": "2024", "keywords": "city; functions; game; group; http://globalce.org; improvement; life; pwid; qool; qool city; quality; skills; training; use; validation", "summary": "[Indicator 6] Qool City board game helped to use more collaborative skills Other comments: Questionnaire C | Applied to Relatives and Professionals After playing Qool City online game mark with an X your chosen option using \u201cYes\u201d, \u201cNo\u201d, or \u201cDon\u2019t Know\u201d. Qualitative opinion and conclusions: Other comments: Questionnaire B | Applied to PwID After playing Qool City board game please present below your opinion and conclusions about most significant improvements.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "globalce-275", "words": "1028", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "41", "author": "Ababau, Ashenafi Hussein", "title": "A Hybrid Model of In-house and Outsourcing Maintenance for Medical Devices in Africa", "date": "2025", "keywords": "house; maintenance; outsourcing", "summary": "Medical device repair and maintenance are extremely important, and the healthcare center has to manage the periodic schedules and updates of the devices. Currently, there are generally two approaches for managing medical device maintenance:", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "globalce-278", "words": "1975", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "30", "author": "Bamidis, Dimitris; Kalouptsoglou, Ilias; Ampatzoglou, Apostolos; Chatzigeorgiou, Alexandros", "title": "Software Skills Identification: A Multi-Class Classification on Source Code Using Machine Learning ", "date": "2024", "keywords": "classification; code; files; learning; machine; model; software; source", "summary": "The experiments on source code classification were conducted using the Jupyter Notebook from Anaconda as a primary development environment. Data selection The data selection process played a crucial role in obtain- ing a representative dataset for source code classification.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "globalce-279", "words": "3129", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "26", "author": "Dratsiou, Ioanna; Romanopoulou, Evangelia; Varella, Annita; Dafli, Eleni; Bamidis, Panagiotis D.", "title": "Revolutionizing Healthcare Education: Mobile Virtual Patients for Digital Problem-Based Learning ", "date": "2024", "keywords": "healthcare; http://globalce.org; learning; mvps; participants; patients; professionals; reasoning; students; usability", "summary": "This study explores the usability and effectiveness of Mobile Virtual Patients (MVPs) in supporting healthcare professionals and medical students in developing skills related to symptom manage- ment, diagnosis, and treatment in the context of the H2020 SHAPES project for older adults. Results showed high usability, with healthcare professionals giving an SUS of 86.2, compared to 77.5 for medical students.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "globalce-28", "words": "663", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "46", "author": "David, Yadin", "title": "Editor's Corner", "date": "2018", "keywords": "technology; work", "summary": "Some have argued that this is at least partially the result of insufficiently publicity about the good work performed by clinical engineers, that we do not publish enough, and that we do not participate in the exchange of evidence-based publications that promote awareness of our many achievements in the field. The projected need of educated manpower capacity is growing while level of competent clinical engineers\u2019 stays leveled around the world.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "globalce-280", "words": "3114", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "37", "author": "Makropoulos, Ioannis; Zantzas, Dimitris; Gkoutzamanis, Vasilis; Kalfas, Anestis", "title": "Improvement of Aortic Valve Stenosis Classification in Patients through Computational Fluid Dynamics Model", "date": "2024", "keywords": "ava; figure; flow; model; patient; pressure; stenosis; valve; vmax", "summary": "* Corresponding Author Email: akalfas@auth.gr ABSTRACT Aortic valve stenosis (AS) is a common and severe valvular disease where accurate assessment is essential for determining prognosis and treatment. Keywords\u2014Aortic valve stenosis, Patient-specific modeling, Stenosis categorization, Leaflet effects, Pressure drop, Maxi- mum velocity, Hemodynamic flow field, Computational fluid dynamics.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "globalce-281", "words": "2225", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "35", "author": "Sarra, Paschalina-Danai; Fiska, Vasiliki; Mitsopoulos, Konstantinos; Mylopoulou, Diamanto; Bamidis, Panagiotis D.", "title": "Kinematic and Dynamic Analysis of the Human Hand\u2019s Articulation for Wearable Soft-Robotic Device Applications ", "date": "2024", "keywords": "device; finger; hand; http://globalce.org; joint; kinematic; model; research", "summary": "This knowledge aids in designing personalized exoskeletal hand devices tailored to individual patient needs. Keywords\u2014Soft robotic device, Kinematics, Dynamics.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "globalce-282", "words": "4376", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "45", "author": "Stylianou, Andreas; Koumakis, Lefteris; \u0397adjinicolaou, \u039caria; Adamopoulos, Adam; Athanasiou, Alkinoos", "title": "Deep Learning Classification of Epileptic Magnetoencephalogram", "date": "2024", "keywords": "accuracy; classification; cnn; epileptic; images; inception; meg; models; network; results; signal", "summary": "The cause of this poor performance lies in the fact that the network was trained on an enormous set of common images that vastly differ from MEG images, and thus, even partially, creating low-level patterns that are useless in our case. MEG signals were recorded with patients in a rest state and with eyes closed.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "globalce-283", "words": "4886", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "30", "author": "Dermitzakis , Aris; Zilidou , Vasiliki; Vellidou, Eleftheria\u00a0; Athanasiou , Alkinoos", "title": "Biomedical technology and clinical engineering in Greece after the pandemic: highlighted works from the Panhellenic Conference of Biomedical Technology", "date": "2024", "keywords": "biomedical; covid-19; data; device; digital; engineering; et al; healthcare; http://globalce.org; issue; learning; model; pandemic; rehabilitation; research; technology", "summary": "In the particular case of aortic valve stenosis (AS), the primary method used for categorizing, i.e., assessing, the severity of AS is the non-invasive echocardiography.36 Therefore, in recent years, there has been an increased demand for more effective assessment of individuals with AS and a deeper understanding of the flow field along the aortic valve.37 In this context, Makropoulos et al. Stylianou et al. tested, com- pared, and evaluated some basic models to build a solid understanding of the characteristics of the available data and gain insights into the model\u2019s behavior.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "globalce-288", "words": "1622", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "14", "author": "Wang, Arthur", "title": "Editor's Corner: 2024\u2014Retrospect, 2025\u2014Prospect", "date": "2024", "keywords": "engineering; engineers; healthcare; journal; research", "summary": "We are committed to our mission and origin: the Global Clinical Engineering Journal is an international clinical engineering journal, led and managed by clinical engineers, contributing to clinical engineers! As we mark our sixth year, it is heartening to reflect on how the journal has grown alongside the ever-evolving field of clinical engineering.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "globalce-29", "words": "4929", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "40", "author": "Wear, James O.", "title": "Certification in the United States, Canada and Asia", "date": "2018", "keywords": "board; certification; clinical; engineering; engineers; equipment; exam; medical; years", "summary": "The evolution of clinical engineering certification in Canada, IFMBE Proceedings 2015;45:950\u20133. 10. All VA certifications were accepted by the AAMI program and the VA allowed its Human Resources Offices to be used to give AAMI certification exams.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "globalce-290", "words": "3346", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "42", "author": "Nakaya, Naofumi; Horiuchi, Kunio; Aoki, Kazuo", "title": "Quantitative Evaluation of Venipuncture Training Models: A Study Using a Puncture Force Testing Device", "date": "2025", "keywords": "blood; device; force; model; needle; puncture; speed; study; training", "summary": "This arrangement facilitated the precise control and recording of puncture force at varying speeds and angles. Results: The findings revealed notable differences in puncture force among the models, with Model C closely resembling human tissue because of its lower maximum puncture force.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "globalce-293", "words": "6064", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "41", "author": "Kotari, Sai Sree; Konakanchi, Bharath Kumar; Salwaji, Supraja; P, Mohan Kumar; Kancherla, Prathyusha; Marrapodi, Maria Maddalena; Cicci\u00f9, Marco; Minervini, Giuseppe", "title": "Newer Diagnostic Methods to Detect Oral Cancer and Their Ap-plications in Prevention and Treatment Strategies: A Systematic Review", "date": "2025", "keywords": "cancer; detection; fields; methods; oct; prevention; review; studies; study; systematic; treatment; yes", "summary": "The purpose of this systematic review is to establish the therapeutic value of novel diagnostic tools for oral cancer detection, as well as their diagnostic accuracy and application in oral cancer prevention and treatment strategies.18\u201321 This systematic review offers a thorough overview of the latest methods for detecting oral cancer, highlighting their clinical applications and diagnostic accuracy. Oral cancer is the most prevalent cancer in Indian men, exhibiting variation by region, with the highest incidence rates observed in South Asia.1\u20134 Early detection of oral cancer is crucial for improv- ing treatment efficacy and survival rates.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "globalce-296", "words": "6573", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "50", "author": "Pradhan, Asisha Ranjan; Kumar, Shivam; Saptoro, Agus; Kumar, Perumal; Suhartono, Jono; Kumar, Satish; Singh, Jashanpreet", "title": "Influence of Airflow on Dispersion of COVID-19 Droplets in Classrooms Using Computational Fluid Dynamics", "date": "2025", "keywords": "airflow; classroom; coughing; covid-19; dispersion; droplets; dynamics; engineering; figure; fluid; influence; kumar; particles; transmission; velocity; ventilation; wall", "summary": "These findings underscore the importance of optimizing airflow velocity and vent placement to reduce airborne exposure and support safer classroom ventilation design. The injected droplet diameters ranged from 0.15 \u00b5m to 150 \u00b5m, consistent with experimental respiratory emission size distributions.30 Inlet velocities of 3, 5, and 7 m/s and the corresponding outlet placements were selected based on airflow conditions investigated in previous classroom ventilation studies.16 The specific details of the droplets are provided in Table 2.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "globalce-307", "words": "5062", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "22", "author": "Gerelt-Od, Namdag; Dashtseren, Amarsaikhan; Luvsan, Munkh-Erdene", "title": "Mongolian Medical Equipment Regulations: Challenges in Clinical Engineering Development ", "date": "2025", "keywords": "development; engineering; engineers; equipment; health; healthcare; medical; mongolian; regulations; technicians; training", "summary": "In Mongolia, medical equipment engineers are referred to as \u201cBiomedical Engineers\u201d, regardless of the field they work in (hospitals, supply organizations, factories, etc.). In 2012, the Chinese Registered Clinical Engineer Certification program was launched, with the examination including both theoretical and practical tests.30 In Mongolia, medical equipment engineers are awarded consulting and specialized engineering degrees following Order No. 213 of the Minister of Health, dated September 2, 2005, titled \u201cOn Organizing Training for Granting Spe- cialist and Consulting Engineering Degrees to Healthcare Engineers.\u201d26", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "globalce-310", "words": "921", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "28", "author": "Silva, Ricardo", "title": "Editor's Corner", "date": "2025", "keywords": "data; engineering", "summary": "Clinical engineers play a vital role in ensuring AI models consider these variables to maintain relevance across diverse healthcare environments. http://www.globalce.org http://www.globalce.org 3 J Global Clinical Engineering Vol.7 Issue 1, 2025 \u2022 Workforce Adaptation: Clinical engineers must seek and receive AI training, including ethics and data governance, to oversee AI integration safely and effectively.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "globalce-311", "words": "7131", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "31", "author": "Di Virgilio, Valerio; Garrigou, Pedro Enrique; Lacasta Casal, Ignacio; Crego, Patricia Mariana; Bruzzo, Miguel Alejandro", "title": "Sustainable Procurement of Medical Technologies: Equipping 85 Modular Healthcare Systems in Argentina", "date": "2025", "keywords": "argentina; centers; devices; engineering; equipment; facilities; figure; healthcare; investment; mhs; needs; procurement; project; systems; technologies; virgilio", "summary": "\u25cf Facilities-related equipment: Supply systems supporting medical equipment and patient care (e.g., power generators and medical gas plants). MDs, both active and passive, were classified into four functional groups: \u25cf Basic Care: Equipment used in low-complexity areas, mainly for screening or primary care, such as blood pressure monitors, hospital beds, and scales. Within the MD acquired for all MHS, passive equipment accounts for 64% but represents only 13% of the investment in medical equipment, as shown in Figures 18 and 19.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "globalce-312", "words": "6490", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "22", "author": "Gonz\u00e1lez Campos, Edgar; Rosas Pacheco, Luis Antonio; Vega Gonz\u00e1lez, Arturo", "title": "Implementing Clinical Engineering Departments in a Small Hospital: A 2017\u20132021 Regulatory Compliance and Organizational Analysis", "date": "2025", "keywords": "analysis; compliance; department; engineering; engineering department; equipment; hospital; level; management; safety; staff; standards", "summary": "Together, the quantitative and qualitative findings confirm that the creation of a clinical engineering department can significantly enhance hospital regulatory compliance, operational performance, and staff engagement with safety processes. * Corresponding Author Email: edgar.gonzalez@ugto.mx ABSTRACT The integration of clinical engineering into healthcare systems is increasingly recognized as a key factor in improving regula- tory compliance, equipment management, and patient safety.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "globalce-32", "words": "9959", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "59", "author": "Malataras, Panagiotis; Pallikarakis, Nicolas", "title": "Spin-off use of adverse events data: why and how. The case of FDA\u2019s MAUDE", "date": "2018", "keywords": "administration; analysis; case; complications; data; database; device; drug; events; events data; experience; facility; fda; food; manufacturer; maude; maude data; medical; papers; patient; reports; research; results; review; safety; spin; technology; university; use; user; vol", "summary": "However, regarding the EU user reporting system for medical devices adverse events, there is not an overall collection of the reports submitted to the national competent authorities. A significant source of data for medical devices (MDs) appears to come from the medical devices vigilance and post-market surveillance mechanisms that are imposed by the relevant regulatory systems, in most part of the world.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "globalce-322", "words": "6611", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "31", "author": "Rupak Kumar; Deepak K. Gupta; Jyoti Batra; Aarti Sahu; Suchita Markan", "title": "Catchment of the Test License for the Regulation of Medical Devices in India", "date": "2025", "keywords": "approval; clinical; device; evaluation; import; india; ivd; license; performance; test; test license", "summary": "One of the purposes of a clinical investigation could be to establish and verify clinical safety, meaning to understand how Testing In general, medical device testing is the process of demonstrating that the device will reliably perform safely in use. Given the significant impact of medical devices (MD) on patient health, a robust regulatory framework that combines policies, laws, regulations, and approvals is necessary to ensure adherence to standards before market entry.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "globalce-331", "words": "643", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "29", "author": "David, Yadin", "title": "Editor's Corner", "date": "2025", "keywords": "engineering; healthcare; technology", "summary": "\u2022 Renewed Commitment: Leave inspired to further contribute to advancing healthcare technology worldwide. \u2022 Global Best Practices: Learn how healthcare systems worldwide address shared challenges in lifecycle management, regulation, and quality assurance.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "globalce-356", "words": "946", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "33", "author": "David, Yadin", "title": "Editor's Corner", "date": "2025", "keywords": "engineering; engineers; leadership", "summary": "\u201cThe future of Clinical Engineering leadership depends on the strength of our alliance. \u201cThe most effective Clinical Engineering leaders speak the language of both medicine and management.\u201d From Basement to Boardroom The traditional view of Clinical Engineers as behind-the- scenes support is fading.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "globalce-38", "words": "3572", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "45", "author": "Easty, Anthony", "title": "Medical Device Risk Management from a Human Factors Perspective", "date": "2018", "keywords": "device; engineering; factors; healthcare; methods; safety; use", "summary": "Several examples are given of points at which the introduction of human factors methods can reveal issues related to the safe use of medical devices that are not easily accessible by other means. Keywords \u2013 Human factors, medical devices, error investigation, patient safety.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "globalce-412", "words": "971", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "21", "author": "David, Yadin; Bin, Li; Dong, Jin", "title": "Editor's Corner: 6th ICEHTMC Proceedings", "date": "2025", "keywords": "engineering; global; icehtmc; journal", "summary": "Program Highlights Include: \u00b7 Opening Ceremony and Plenary Session with world-renowned speakers \u00b7 10th Anniversary Celebration of Global Clinical Engineering Week \u00b7 National Chinese Clinical Engineering Tracks \u00b7 Global Clinical Engineering Summit \u00b7 Global CE Journal Editorial Board Meeting \u00b7 GCEA members Annual Meeting and Officer Elections \u00b7 Inaugural innovative \u201cMeet & Greet\u201d, a commercial Networking Program \u00b7 Health and Wellness Technology Exhibition \u00b7 Closing Ceremony Social Program ICEHTMC 2025 is not only a platform for learning about the latest global health technologies and Clinical Engineering professional exchange but also a celebration of our community\u2019s culture and passion. ICEHTMC 2025 - J Global Clinical Engineering, Special Issue 7, 2025 J Global Clinical Engineering, Special Issue 7, 2025 - Proceedings 6th ICEHTMC 2025 Global Clinical Engineering JournalGlobal Clinical Engineering Journal 2 Welcome to ICEHTMC 2025 Dear Colleagues and Friends, It is our great pleasure to welcome you to the 6th International Clinical Engineering & Health Technology Management Congress (ICEHTMC 2025)!", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "globalce-42", "words": "818", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "46", "author": "David, Yadin", "title": "Editor's Corner", "date": "2018", "keywords": "engineering; journal", "summary": "In a way, you can think of the Global Clinical Engineering Journal as the child that will foster a sense of pride for clinical engineers all over the world \u2013 producing the magnificent aura that new parents delight in as they nurture and rear their beautiful baby. The ushering of the only Congress dedicated to the Clinical Engineering field \u2013 the International Clinical Engineering and Health Technology Management Congress \u2013 the third congress slated to take place in Rome, Italy, in October 2019 (www.icehtmc.com). \u2022", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "globalce-43", "words": "9417", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "-90", "author": "Judd, Thomas; David, Yadin", "title": "Making a Difference \u2013 Global Health Technology Success Stories: Overview of over 400 submissions from 125 Countries", "date": "2018", "keywords": "africa; al brazil; area; authors; biomedical; brazil; care; ced; china; clinical; colombia; countries; david; delivery; development; devices; engineering; engineering issue; engineers; equipment; et al; focus; global; global ce; global global; health systems; health technology; healthcare; hospital; htm; ifmbe; impact; india; innovation; judd; links; maintenance; management; medical; moh; part2; quality; services; stories; success stories; systems; technologies; technology management; technology success; title; world", "summary": "Global ACCE Global HTM Seminars, 2013 2GFMD, Antonio Hernandez et al Haiti Using HTM to improve care delivery, Monette Valliere, Jean Chery, (part2) http://cedglobal.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/54.-Lu-He-qing-et-al.-PM-of-Fetal-Monitors-Based-on-Risk-Assessment-and-Risk-Control-China.pdf http://cedglobal.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/57.-Yang-Shaozhou-et-al.-The-Survey-on-the-Clinical-Engineering-Departments-in-Guangdong-Province-Under-New-Regulations-China.pdf https://docs.google.com/viewerng/viewer?url=http://cedglobal.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/China-Certification-Story.ppt http://cedglobal.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/68.-PAULA-BERRIO-Colombia-CE-AND-IMPACT-ON-FINANCIAL-MANAGEMENT-OF-THE-HOSP..pdf https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-981-10-4086-3_3 https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-981-10-4086-3_3 https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-981-10-4086-3_8 https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-981-10-4086-3_8 http://cedglobal.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/88.-Mar%C3%ADa-Paula-Esquivel-Asenjo-et-al-Clinical-Engineering-Health-Technology-Management-key-areas-of-challenge-and-progress-in-Costa-Rica.pdf http://cedglobal.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/88.-Mar%C3%ADa-Paula-Esquivel-Asenjo-et-al-Clinical-Engineering-Health-Technology-Management-key-areas-of-challenge-and-progress-in-Costa-Rica.pdf http://www.ismaelcordero.com/ewExternalFiles/Health Technology Management in Less-Developed Countries.pdf https://www.linkedin.com/in/gabriela-murillo-jenkins-7b3a8913/ https://docs.google.com/viewerng/viewer?url=http://cedglobal.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/Cuba-HT-Unit-national-impact-J-Castro.ppt http://www.ismaelcordero.com/ewExternalFiles/Health Technology Management in Less-Developed Countries.pdf http://cedglobal.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/87.-Freddy-Matamoros-Desarrollo-de-la-Ingenieria-Biomedica-en-la-Honorable-Junta-de-Beneficencia-de-Guayaquil-Ecuador.pdf http://cedglobal.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/87.-Freddy-Matamoros-Desarrollo-de-la-Ingenieria-Biomedica-en-la-Honorable-Junta-de-Beneficencia-de-Guayaquil-Ecuador.pdf http://www.ismaelcordero.com/ewExternalFiles/Health Technology Management in Less-Developed Countries.pdf http://www.who.int/medical_devices/global_forum/3rd_gfmd/MedicaldeviceWarrantyPeriodMaintenance.pdf http://www.who.int/medical_devices/global_forum/3rd_gfmd/MedicaldeviceWarrantyPeriodMaintenance.pdf http://www.who.int/medical_devices/global_forum/3rd_gfmd/UtilityMaintenancemedicaldevices.pdf http://www.who.int/medical_devices/global_forum/3rd_gfmd/UtilityMaintenancemedicaldevices.pdf https://docs.google.com/viewerng/viewer?url=http://cedglobal.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/Ghana-HT-Donations-Study-2015-Adusei-poku-Gentles.doc http://www.who.int/medical_devices/global_forum/3rd_gfmd/3rd_gf_parallel_session_presentations/en/index5.html http://www.who.int/medical_devices/global_forum/3rd_gfmd/3rd_gf_parallel_session_presentations/en/index5.html http://www.who.int/medical_devices/global_forum/RoleofBMETshealthtechnologymanagement.pdf http://www.who.int/medical_devices/global_forum/RoleofBMETshealthtechnologymanagement.pdf http://www.ismaelcordero.com/ewExternalFiles/Health Technology Management in Less-Developed Countries.pdf https://globalce.org/index.php/GlobalCE/article/view/21 https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-981-10-5122-7_79 http://www.ismaelcordero.com/ewExternalFiles/Health Technology Management in Less-Developed Countries.pdf https://www.linkedin.com/in/icordero/ http://www.who.int/medical_devices/global_forum/2nd-gf_workshops/en/index4.html http://accenet.org/publications/Newsletters/ACCENewsMayJune2015.pdf https://www.linkedin.com/in/monette-valliere-00673323/ Judd and David: Global Health Technology Success Stories: Management 37 J Global Clinical Engineering Issue 1:24-49; 2018 Focus Area Title, authors, with active links Italy Launch of the new WHO Collaborating Centre for Research and Training in CE and HTM, Paolo Lago Italy A Novel Approach to Improve the Technical Maintenance of Biomedical Equipment, Daniele Bibbo et al Jamaica Health Technology Management in Jamaica, 2010, Keith Richards Kenya MoH ophthalmic equipment support, Philip Anyango, Mary Nguri & Joseph Rugut Kenya MoH Device HydroCarbon Refrigeration Training BMETs, J. Rugut Kosovo HTM in Kosovo, 2010, Agron Boshnjaku S. Ramiqi S, K. Hashani, (part2) Kyrgyzstan HTM in Kyrgyzstan, 2010, Kazbek Agibetov, (part2) Laos HTM in Laos, 2GFMD 2013, Thanom Insal Lebanon HTM Implementation at Saint George Hospital \u2013 Lebanon, Riad Farah Lebanon Medical Devices Repair/Replacement Algorithm Model, Riah Farah Mexico Decodifying HTM in Mexican Private Hospitals, Luis Fernandez Nigeria Key areas of challenge and progress of CE-HTM in Nigeria, Bukola Esan Paraguay Health Technology Management in Paraguay, Pedro Galvan, (part2) http://global.icehtmc.com/publication/healthteachnology http://global.icehtmc.com/publication/healthteachnology http://global.icehtmc.com/publication/globalsuccess http://global.icehtmc.com/publication/globalsuccess Judd and David: Global Health Technology Success Stories J Global Clinical Engineering Issue 1:24-49; 2018 26 Measures During the first Global Clinical Engineering Summit in 2015 the question was raised whether evidence of success- ful HT innovation, management, accessibility, e-technology applications, safety, and quality outcomes can be identified.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "globalce-44", "words": "7224", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "41", "author": "Gentles, William; Bradley, Bradley; Yoon, Charles; Zahedi, Sulmaz; Adusei-Poku, Yolanda; Zienaa, John; Adjabu, Nicolas; Cheng, Yu-Ling", "title": "Medical Device Donation Practices in Canada: A Survey of Donor and Recipient Perspectives", "date": "2019", "keywords": "canada; donation; donor; engineering; equipment; medical; needs; organizations; practices; recipient; shipping; support; survey", "summary": "We learned from the interviews that while some organizations request formal documentation or reports confirming receipt and/or functionality of equipment, in general the feedback that many receive is informal (e.g., thank you notes, pictures of the equipment at its final destination) and sometimes indirect (e.g., newsletters of recipient organizations). The objective of this study was to gain an improved understanding of the practices and challenges associated with medical equipment donations by Canadian charitable organizations.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "globalce-46", "words": "7443", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "48", "author": "Hossain, Md. Anwar; Ahmad, Mohiuddin; Islam, Md. Rafiqul; David, Yadin", "title": "Evaluation of Performance Outcomes of Medical Equipment Technology Management and Patient Safety: Skilled Clinical Engineer\u2019s Approach", "date": "2019", "keywords": "care; ced; clinical; engineering; equipment; equipment technology; management; medical; outcomes; patient; performance; performance outcomes; technology; technology management", "summary": "Clinical Engineering Department model for a hos- pital in the U.S. FIGURE 3. In this study the quality model of Clinical Engineering Departments is determined by educational qualification, Clinical Engineering (CE) certification, training, and duration of experiences in this field.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "globalce-49", "words": "4457", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "42", "author": "Ferreira, Ryan Pinto; Andrade, Fernando Oliveira; Ramos, Anderson Alberto; Bernardes, Rodrigo; Calil, Saide Jorge", "title": "Logistics of Medical Devices for Indigenous Health Care Attending in Remote Sites in the Brazilian Amazon Rain Forest", "date": "2020", "keywords": "amazon; devices; engineering; equipment; expeditions; forest; health; maintenance; medical; process; transportation; use", "summary": "OBJECTIVE The object of this paper is to describe the transporta- tion installation, operation, and maintenance processes used to ensure the safe use of medical devices in one FH in the Amazon forest and to present proposed solutions to overcome adverse conditions throughout the course of several expeditions. The object of this paper is to describe the transportation processes, installation, operation, and maintenance involved in ensuring the safe use of medical devices in one FH in the Amazon forest and to present solutions to adverse conditions encountered throughout the course of several expeditions.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "globalce-51", "words": "1805", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "48", "author": "Ayala, Roberto; Orencio, Elizabeth", "title": "Identification of Health Technology Management departments in Mexico\u2019s State health services", "date": "2019", "keywords": "health; htm; services; state", "summary": "19 J Global Clinical Engineering Issue 2:17-21; 2019 Ayala, Orencio: Identification of Health Technology Management departments in Mexico\u2019s State Health Services It was found that 20 different groups or departments had incorporated variations of the title \u201cBiomedical Engineering.\u201d Ayala, Orencio: Identification of Health Technology Management departments in Mexico\u2019s State Health Services J Global Clinical Engineering Issue 2:17-21; 2019 20 HTM Processes Attended Graph 4 outlines the prevelence of tasks involving the the HTM processes and the execution of these processes and which areas in State Health Services carry them out.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "globalce-52", "words": "2648", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "38", "author": "Marciano, Marcelo Antunes; Souza, Eliezer Knob", "title": "Application of Multiparameter Method as an Assistance to the Evaluation of the Need for Replacement of Medical Equipments", "date": "2020", "keywords": "application; equipment; evaluation; medical; method; replacement", "summary": "As a result, the classification of medical equipment and the prioritiza- tion of substitution is obtained concerning variety, quantity, and cost of the equipment to be replaced. For medical equipment to contribute effectively and for health organizations to use them more productively, there is a need to manage their life cycle.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "globalce-53", "words": "519", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "44", "author": "Yadin, David", "title": "Editor's Corner", "date": "2019", "keywords": "engineering; global", "summary": "For a long time now, I have heard clinical engineers express that they feel underrepresented. It is the duty of clinical engineers all over the world to improve patient care, and one effective way to move toward that goal is by publishing quality manuscripts that teach, increase the visibility, and contributions of our professional practice.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "globalce-54", "words": "3928", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "40", "author": "Marciano, Marcelo Antunes; Schneider, Luis Claudio; Pedroni, J\u00falio", "title": "Assistant Multi-Parametric Method to the Selection in the Process of Incorporation of Hospital Equipment", "date": "2019", "keywords": "cost; criteria; engineering; equipment; hospital; incorporation; maintenance; method; performance; process; technology", "summary": "MCDA methods are widely used in other sectors, and recently there has been an increase in health care applications.9 The technology assessment domain corresponds to the choice and applying of multi-criteria methods in sup- porting the decision, such as: Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP), Multi-Attribute Failure Mode Analysis (MAFMA), Elimination and Choice Translating Reality (ELECTRE) among others.10 Multi-criteria decision analysis (MCDA) concepts, models, and tools have been used increasingly in health technology assessment (HTA), with several stud- ies pointing out practical and theoretical issues related to its use.11 The goal of this project was to develop a multi-pa- rameter method to assist the process of acquisition and incorporation of hospital technologies which can be used as a tool in the comparison stage of brands and models of equipment available. CONCLUSION The acquisition process of hospital equipment requires defined criteria to make comparison possible between different brands and models, and to point to the selection and consequent definition of which item will be more fit to incorporate in a certain hospital in a certain application.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "globalce-56", "words": "2874", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "30", "author": "MARCIANO, MARCELO ANTUNES", "title": "DISCARDING FLOW PROPOSITION OF HOSPITAL ELECTRO-ELECTRONIC EQUIPMENT", "date": "2020", "keywords": "disposal; electronic; equipment; hospital; management; recycling; reee; residue; waste", "summary": "In the assembly of electronic equipment various component are used that have other constituent heavy metals, such as mercury (used in thermostats, sensors, relays, and switches); lead (used in printed circuit board welding); cadmium (used in printed circuit boards, SMD resistor chips, semi-conductors, and infra-red detectors), and PVC stabilizers (such as the silicon used in the manu- facturing of microprocessors and halogenated substances like polyvinyl chloride [PVC] etc.).2 Other materials often used are iron and steel, used in cabinets and frames; glass, used in screens and counters; plastics, used in cabinets, cable coatings, and printed circuit as well as rubber. Proposed flow for discarding hospital electric and electronic equipment.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "globalce-57", "words": "2452", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "52", "author": "Marciano, Marcelo Antunes; Rezer, Rodrigo; Santos, Anderson", "title": "Flow Analyzer for Blood Pump", "date": "2020", "keywords": "blood; engineering; equipment; figure; flow; hemodialysis; pump", "summary": "INTRODUCTION Renal insufficiency occurs when the kidneys are unable to function properly.1 Hemodialysis is performed from a venous access allowing high blood flow. Among the restrictions of this method are the uncertainties generated by the technical measurement process itself and the delay to carry out the measurements.9 The main objective of this work is to develop a flow measurement device for blood pumps of hemodialysis machines.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "globalce-58", "words": "2186", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "32", "author": "Marciano, Marcelo Antunes; Souza, Eliezer Knob", "title": "Integration of the Trans-Operative Information with the Patient's Electronic Record", "date": "2019", "keywords": "data; equipment; information; integration; patient; project; trans", "summary": "In more advanced centers and some Brazilian hospi- tals this form of more efficient collection, storage, and information integration begins to develop, mainly in the application of intense therapy unities.7 The clinical engineering teams with their multidisci- plinary knowledge can contribute to the medical teams, assistance, and information technology and become in- creasingly applied to the integrated possible technologies. Concerning the integration method of monitoring data and trans-operative stage information, the topologies and/or architectures are demonstrated in Figures 2 and 3. FIGURE 1.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "globalce-59", "words": "2243", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "55", "author": "Marciano, Marcelo Antunes; Rezer, Rodrigo; Santos, Anderson", "title": "Maternal Fetal Simulator", "date": "2020", "keywords": "arduino; figure; platform; pressure; prototype; simulator; system; use", "summary": "Using data generated by the simulator the man-machine in- terface can measure fetal movement, uterine activity, and fetal heart rate. The aim was to make it easy to use in universities and hospitals that are looking for quality in fetal monitors testing.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "globalce-60", "words": "1896", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "43", "author": "Marciano, Marcelo Antunes; Santos, Anderson; Rezer, Rodrigo; Knob de Souza, William ", "title": "Proposed Calibration of Apheresis Equipment", "date": "2020", "keywords": "apheresis; blood; calibration; cells; equipment; method; pressure", "summary": "Thus, this work aims to propose and demonstrate a method of qualifying apheresis equipment through equipment calibration before releasing it for first-time use. Considering the details above, there is a need to con- solidate criteria and do a greater scope of tests and calibra- tions on apheresis equipment to avoid initial or routine use of equipment that has not been calibrated.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "globalce-61", "words": "4598", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "51", "author": "Oosting, Roos Marieke; Wauben, Linda .S.G.L; Mwaura, Salome .W.; Madete, June .K.; Groen, Reinou .S.; Dankelman, Jenny", "title": "Barriers to Availability of Surgical Equipment in Kenya: A Surgical Equipment Journey Approach", "date": "2019", "keywords": "availability; bmets; equipment; hospitals; journey; kenya; participants; parts; procurement; study", "summary": "Other studies have identified synergies in the barriers to medical equipment between different LMICs.10\u201313 This study offers insights from front- line BMETs providing maintenance on a daily basis on why these barriers exist, by identifying the journey during the life span of surgical equipment. Currently, there is a gap in the availability of surgical equipment which limits the provision of safe surgery.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "globalce-66", "words": "756", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "16", "author": "Yadin, David", "title": "Editor's Corner", "date": "2019", "keywords": "engineering; technology", "summary": "Following the publication in 1999 of its landmark manuscript about reducing preventable medical errors committed during provisioning of health care (http:// www.nationalacademies.org/hmd/Reports/1999/To- Err-is-Human-Building-A-Safer-Health-System.aspx), the National Academy of Medicine (formerly the Institute of Medicine), published in 2001 their report Crossing the Quality Chasm; A new Health System for the 21st Century (http://www.nationalacademies.org/hmd/Reports/2001/ Crossing-the-Quality-Chasm-A-New-Health-System-for- the-21st-Century.aspx), and followed up in 2015 with another landmark book about the criticality of getting the correct diagnosis in managing patient conditions and the underappreciated occurrence of diagnostic errors (http://www.nationalacademies.org/hmd/Re- ports/2015/Improving-Diagnosis-in-Healthcare.aspx). It furthermore points that health care harms patients and routinely fails to deliver its potential benefits.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "globalce-67", "words": "5047", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "38", "author": "Bolton, Sarah; Latimer, Elizabeth; Clark, Daniel", "title": "Is There Sufficient Evidence to Support the Use of Temporal Artery and Non-contact Infrared Thermometers in Clinical Practice? A Literature Review", "date": "2020", "keywords": "artery; contact; evidence; infrared; oral; patients; tat; temperature; thermometers; tympanic; use", "summary": "For routine measurements in hospitals, non-invasive thermometers such as tympanic infrared ear thermometers are very widely used even though non-invasive thermometers are not as accurate as core thermometry. Selection of the most accurate thermometer devices for clini- cal practice: Part 1: Meta-analysis of the accuracy of non-core thermometer devices compared to core body temperature.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "globalce-68", "words": "634", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "17", "author": "Velazquez Berumen, Adriana", "title": "WHO Update Column", "date": "2019", "keywords": "diagnostics; health", "summary": "It provides a searchable database of the 8-10 key characteristics used to describe desired health products, including medicines, vaccines, diagnostics and medical equipment. who.int/tdr/diseases-topics/product-directory/en/ a free-to-use online resource created and devel- oped by TDR (Special Programme for Research and Training in Tropical Diseases) on behalf of WHO as a global public good to improve the efficiency of efforts to develop new products for neglected diseases and populations as well as threats to global health.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "globalce-70", "words": "4185", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "44", "author": "Nascimento, Leonardo; Calil, Saide; Judd, Tom; David, Yadin", "title": "Analysis of IFMBE-CED 2017 Worldwide Clinical Engineering Survey", "date": "2019", "keywords": "activities; ces; engineering; importance; knowledge; management; survey; technology", "summary": "Keywords \u2013 Clinical Engineering, Body of Knowledge, Body of Practice, Clinical Engineering Survey. To our knowledge, there are no recent publications on surveys conducted to investigate CE activities worldwide.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "globalce-74", "words": "4236", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "43", "author": "Dermitzakis, Aris", "title": "Distribution and Utilisation of Radiotherapy Units in Greece", "date": "2019", "keywords": "data; distribution; greece; number; radiotherapy; units; use", "summary": "Assess the current status of staffing in RT units \u2022 As a result, it came out that, in terms of the number of units per million population the number of RT units rose by 23% from 4.3 in 2009 to 5.3 in 2017.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "globalce-76", "words": "1059", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "34", "author": "David, Yadin", "title": "Editor's Corner", "date": "2019", "keywords": "brain; engineers; health", "summary": "Specifically, I wanted to include physician/neurolo- gist to our Global Clinical Engineering program because not too many clinical engineers know of the specific neurology based challenges healthcare practitioners face in the management of brain conditions. This depends to a large extent on how many resources, including clinical engineers, will focus on the research about the intricacies of the human brain.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "globalce-78", "words": "4158", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "38", "author": "Huang, Erliang", "title": "A multi-platform information management system of total life cycle for medical equipment", "date": "2021", "keywords": "asset; cycle; data; device; equipment; hospital; information; life; maintenance; management; repair; system", "summary": "Connecting medical equipment management systems and other related information systems in the hospital. Medical equipment management system layered structure.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "globalce-79", "words": "2273", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "35", "author": "Wear, James Otto", "title": "IFMBE/CED Recognition of Certification/Registration Programs for Clinical Engineering Practitioners", "date": "2020", "keywords": "certification; engineering; programs; registration", "summary": "This part of the application can be different for each program and probably will be different for certified programs and registration programs. Certification programs may be based on credentials only or programs based on exams and credentials.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "globalce-80", "words": "1598", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "31", "author": "Velazquez Berumen, Adriana; DeFrancesco, Jennifer", "title": "WHO Update Column", "date": "2020", "keywords": "engineering; global; health; technology", "summary": "On the heels of the 3rd ICEHTMC in Rome, Italy, over 1,000 clinical engineering professionals from 6 continents got together to share information, vision and passion for building capacity in clinical engineering to improve patient safety, support access and spur innovation for medical devices and health technology management globally; clinical engineering professionals are well-positioned to use 2020 as a springboard that will bring a new depth of international standards, information sharing An Addendum http://www.globalce.org http://www.globalce.org 7 J Global Clinical Engineering Vol.2 Issue 2, 2019 and understanding of our profession to the world. It is further important for clinical engineers to understand not only the emerging trends in health technology management, but those in medical device regulations and health technology assessment as well.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "globalce-81", "words": "948", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "38", "author": "David, Yadin", "title": "Book Review: Clinical Engineering Handbook (Second Edition)", "date": "2020", "keywords": "engineering; handbook; technology", "summary": "As noted in the Foreword written by Adriana Ve- lazquez, Senior Advisor on Medical Devices, World Health Organization (WHO) \u201cThis book is a major contribution to the evolution of the profession itself, and serves as a call to institutional leaders to look to clinical engineering to expand the professional capabilities that healthcare systems need worldwide as they grapple with the often overwhelming complexities, always keeping the end- user perspectives of patients, and healthcare workers\u2019 needs globally.\u201d Clinical Engineering Handbook Second Edition Editor-in-Chief: Ernesto Iadanza ISBN 978-0-12-813467-2 Academic Press, Elsevier Published 2020 Our first book review is about the Elsevier Academic Press newly published Clinical Engineering Handbook second edition with Ernesto Iadanza as editor-in-chief.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "globalce-83", "words": "4127", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "39", "author": "Mijares, Rodrigo; Utrera , N\u00e9stor; Sierra, Zhayda; Gonz\u00e1lez, Sara; Lugo, Rub\u00e9n; Rinc\u00f3n, Mar\u00eda; Mijares, Raquel", "title": "Quality Certification of Medical Devices in Venezuela: Process Developed by Sim\u00f3n Bol\u00edvar University, Caracas-Venezuela", "date": "2020", "keywords": "certification; devices; equipment; health; iso; medical; process; processes; quality; ugts; venezuela", "summary": "Medical devices certification includes the analysis not only of the devices itself but the manufacturer, distributor, and post-market services. Medical Device Certifications Since 1999 more than 80 companies have requested medical device certifications from the UGTS, for one or more of the devices they manufacture, distribute, and sell in Venezuela.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "globalce-84", "words": "5589", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "33", "author": "Sharma, Jitendar; Bunders, Joske; Zuiderent-Jerak, Teun; Regeer, Barbara", "title": "A Model for Priority Setting in Health Technology Innovation Policy", "date": "2020", "keywords": "burden; communicable; devices; disease; health; innovation; list; medical; model; priority; setting; study; table; technology; tests", "summary": "Thus, using data on causes of premature death, loss of health and disability in different popula- tions\u2019 mortality and disability, other than a disease, would be valuable to enrich the model itself and the resulting list of priority medical devices. As the current COVID-19 pandemic painfully shows, it is also necessary to take into account a country\u2019s capacity for self-sufficiency in terms of manufac- turing the devices used in their territories and becoming more independent from importing medical devices and the economic impacts of such import.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "globalce-85", "words": "7884", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "55", "author": "AHOUANDJINOU, M\u00eatowanou H\u00e9ribert; MEDENOU, Daton; PECCHIA, Leandro ; HOUESSOUVO, Roland C. ; JOSSOU, Thierry Rock", "title": "Modeling an Integrated Network for Remote Patient Monitoring, based on the Internet of Things for a More Preventive and Predictive Health System in West Africa", "date": "2020", "keywords": "applications; architecture; data; doi; health; health system; healthcare; ieee; information; internet; iot; monitoring; network; patient; security; sensors; system; technologies; things; west; wireless", "summary": "Mshali H, Lemlouma T, Moloney, M, and Magoni D. A survey on health monitoring systems for health smart homes. Result: This work has been used to model health systems in Africa as a remote monitoring network for patients.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "globalce-86", "words": "5015", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "47", "author": "De Rosa, Immacolata; Pepino, Alessandro; Giaconia, Gianluca; Guarino, Mario", "title": "Bedside Communication and Management of Vital Parameters and Alarms in Care-Intensive Environments: Simulation Model Development for the Clinical Effectiveness Analysis of An Innovative Technology", "date": "2020", "keywords": "activities; analysis; communication; effectiveness; figure; model; patient; simulation; technology; time", "summary": "A total of 19% of their time (less than 1/5 of the time) was dedicated to direct patient care activities and only 7% was dedicated to the monitoring of vital signs (Figure 2). Keywords \u2013 Alarm fatigue, safety, communication, clinical effectiveness, simulation model, workflow, vitalsigns.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "globalce-87", "words": "4552", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "45", "author": "Cecchini, Alessia; Masselli, Grazia Maria Pia; Silvestri, Sergio", "title": "Evaluation and Optimization of CES Performances: Application of Pareto Principle to KPIs", "date": "2021", "keywords": "ces; equipment; indicators; kpis; maintenance; pareto; work", "summary": "For this reason, the primary purpose of this paper was to detail some of the quantitative per- formance and cost benchmark indicators that have been historically used in medical equipment maintenance and repair and to make recommendations on how the clinical engineering profession can develop good quality, useful and meaningful benchmarks. The results indicated an average gap of 67% between the performance of the CES and the reference they have identified, considered the ideal target.3 According to the Tiwari study, service performance on medical equipment serviced by external suppliers is assessed.4", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "globalce-88", "words": "6034", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "50", "author": "Djankou, Tchoutat Lionel; Albonico, Vincenzo", "title": "Emergency Relocation of a Cardio-Surgical Health Facility Due to War", "date": "2020", "keywords": "air; center; equipment; facility; health; healthcare; hospital; icu; medical; operating; patients; shisong; theater", "summary": "CHALLENGES OR LIMITATIONS TO A SMOOTH TAKE OFF FOR THE CARDIAC CENTER While working closely with the partnering clinic, we faced many challenges that could equally delay if not ad- dressed, the smooth take-off of surgical activities. October \u2013 November 7th, 2018 Discussions and underground works between the cardiac surgeon and technical coordinator concerning the possibilities of reviving surgical activities in a safer location.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "globalce-89", "words": "5408", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "45", "author": "Prister\u00e0, Francesca; Alessandro Gallo; Salvatore Fregola ; Alessio Merola", "title": "Development of a Biomechatronic Device for Motion Analysis Through a RGB-D Camera", "date": "2020", "keywords": "arm; body; camera; device; figure; joints; motion; patient; performance; position; rehabilitation; tracking", "summary": "Therefore, patients can carry out the rehabilitation exercise sessions independently but at the same time they can be supported and encouraged and, above all, the physiotherapist can control the results in real-time, al- lowing a better evaluation of the evolution of the treatment path together with greater personalization and higher frequency of treated patients over time providing the advantages of low-cost teleassistance and telemedicine in the context of at-home rehabilitation, As a further development of the device, a voice recogni- tion module will be implemented, as the voice signal can be used to start the rehabilitation session or to interrupt and then resume the exercise later. The developed device is a valid tool for patients affected by chronic disability, but it could be extended to neurodegenerative diseases in the early stages.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "globalce-90", "words": "5025", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "56", "author": "Zhou , Qingqing; Hu, Qianqian; Yang, Xianfeng; Chen, Yuchen; Yu, Yusheng; Zhang, Jue; Ma, Qinghong; Zhou, Gangping; Wei, Hengle; Zhang, Bing; Zhang, Hong", "title": "Semi-automatic 3-D Reconstruction Measurement of Muscle Volume with Magnetic Resonance Imaging", "date": "2020", "keywords": "carpi; digitorum; flexor; imaging; measurement; method; mri; muscle; pig; voi; voi method; volume; zhang; zhou", "summary": "Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) plays an impor- tant role in evaluating muscle volume and displaying 3-D structure.12 Previous studies have reported the MRI 3-D reconstruction and volume measurement by delineat- ing the contour manually.4,12\u201315 Evaluation of a simple method for determining muscle volume in vivo.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "globalce-92", "words": "1068", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "50", "author": "David, Yadin", "title": "Editor's Corner", "date": "2020", "keywords": "care; engineering; patient", "summary": "Clinical engineering professionals from around the world, like many other professionals nowadays, are struggling with their feelings of being overwhelmed, navigating changing ambiguities, and of having such a burden of a life-critical mission. Their mission, man- aging technology that now focuses on attending to the support of urgent safe patient care, is challenged by the loss of regular (or normal) access to supply chain sources.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "globalce-94", "words": "11081", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "32", "author": "Tartaglia, Riccardo ", "title": "Patient Safety Recommendations for COVID-19 Epidemic Outbreak: Lessons from the Italian Experience", "date": "2020", "keywords": "available; care; clinical; concentration; coronavirus; covid-19; covid-19 epidemic; cyp3a; disease; dose; engineering; epidemic; experience; health; hospital; infection; inhibition; inhibitors; issue; lessons; monitoring; online; outbreak; patients; plasma; recommendations; reduction; risk; safety; safety recommendations; staff; symptoms; use", "summary": "The most common reported laboratory abnormalities in COVID-19 patients are: Lymphopenia (35-75%), increased C-RP (75-93%), LDH (27-92%), ESR (up to 85% of cases), hypoalbuminemia (50-98%) and anemia (41-50%). We must consider that COVID-19 patients have long hospital stays and in the early stages they will experience the anguish of having an aggravation of the disease with the possibility of being intubated.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "globalce-95", "words": "2907", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "68", "author": "Nocco, Umberto ", "title": "Italian Clinical Engineer Experience during Covid-19", "date": "2020", "keywords": "devices; hospital; need; patients", "summary": "We were just running normal routine, and we are normally running at 95% better in Lombardy and I think that more or less the same number throughout Italy, but we had to define new areas where positive patients were to be placed. Basically you need to define which wards and which ICUs, if you have them, you want to put positive patients in and which wards you want to put non-positive patients in.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "globalce-97", "words": "1757", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "42", "author": "Zhang, Jin; Li, Jiansheng; Wu, Zhiyong", "title": "The Chinese Experience - Fighting Against Covid-19, Shanxi Medical Engineers", "date": "2020", "keywords": "epidemic; equipment; hospital; medical; shanxi", "summary": "These clinical engineers appreciate the urgency of racing against time to expedite the commissioning and installation of new and relocated medical equipment at their hospitals. In the face of the epidemic, as always, they have remained at their stations in hospitals and have become the patron saints of medical equipment.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "globalce-98", "words": "8283", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "9", "author": "Hosea, Fred", "title": "Emerging Horizons of Clinical Engineering in Disaster Preparedness and Management: Proposal for an expanded professional identity", "date": "2020", "keywords": "care; conditions; design; devices; disaster; disaster preparedness; emergency; engineering; engineers; global; health; healthcare; horizons; hosea; international; issue; management; medical; preparedness; public; response; services; systems; technology; use; vol.3", "summary": "The role of biomedical en- gineering in disaster management in resource-limited settings. He has published articles on disaster management and the future of biomedical and clinical engineering professions.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "globalce-99", "words": "2240", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "42", "author": "Wu, Yunyun; Kun, Zheng; Li, Bo Ping; Zheng, CaiXian", "title": "Lean and Computerized Management System for Non-Hospital Owned Medical Equipment in Hospital", "date": "2021", "keywords": "engineering; equipment; hospital; management; medical; system; trial", "summary": "There are no more than 10 cases of trial medical equipment in our hospital every year in recent years. The trial equipment we refer to here is not medical equipment in clinical trials for pre-market approval but equipment already approved for the market.", "mime": "application/pdf"}]