Overview Flashcards
Clinical engineer
A professional who supports and advances patient care by applying engineering and managerial skills to health care technology
Clinical engineering
A subset of biomedical engineering. Clinical engineering is practiced in hospitals and other environments where medical device technologies are utilised
Biomedical engineering
Is practiced primarily in academic institutions, the research laboratory, and manufacturing
Health practices
(In shops and hospitals) involves preventative care and wellbeing, rehabilitation, management of chronic patients (eg optometrist, pharmacist, aged care)
Medical practice
(In clinics and medical centres) includes non-surgical activity and non-clinical research activity (GP, pathology services, psychologist, dentist)
Clinical practice
(In hospitals and day surgeries) includes non-surgical and surgical activity; addresses serious acute and chronic care (eg surgery obstetrics , psychiatry, oncology, trauma)
Chronic
Chronic patients are progressively affected (eg arthritis)
Acute
Acute patients have sudden and severe onset
Accuracy
How close a value is to the actual value
Precision
How repeatable a measure is of a value
Rigid body
A combination of a large number of particles
Rigid body assumption
Rigid body does not deform when subjected to a force
Product recall
The process of retrieving defective goods from consumers and providing those consumers with compensation. Recalls often occur as a result of safety concerns over a manufacturing defect in a product that may harm its user eg Samsung s7, PIP implants l, ASR hip implants
Flow on cost of product recall
The further the design/product is developed before recall the more costly it is to fix. The products development/design issues may have significant effects on the patients who use the products and would cost to compensate the patients health wise money wise psychologically etc and remake models or possible take off the market forever
Severity
Amount of harm caused by potential risk eg low high
