Efficacy and safety of flexible disposable ureterorenoscope wiscope – A single institution experience [PDF]
Archives of the Balkan Medical Union, 2022 Introduction. According to the European Association of Urology guidelines, flexible ureterorenoscopy is one of the treatment modalities for kidney stones less than 2 cm.
Atanas S. IVANOV +2 more
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Sterilization of single-use helical stone baskets: an experimental study [PDF]
Einstein (São Paulo), 2011 Objectives: To experimentally evaluate the efficacy of a standard sterilization protocol employed during reuse of disposable helical stone baskets. Methods: Study performed on 20 helical stone baskets: 10 were used in the initial validation process ...
Fernando Korkes +4 more
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Development of a Safe Syringe Disposal System Moving towards Automated Syringe Data Collection [PDF]
Healthcare Informatics Research, 2019 ObjectivesAn automatic needle destroyer (ANDY) was developed to prevent needlestick injuries, and usability tests were conducted in several hospitals.
Youhwa Kim +3 more
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Machines, 2022 Mechanical equipment that will not be reused is defined as disposable machinery. Disposable harmonic drives (HDs) are commonly used in the field of aerospace and are sensitive to payloads.
Yuxin Zhang +3 more
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Determining Technology Life Cycle Prediction based on Patent Bibliometric Data [PDF]
International Journal of Information Science and Management, 2023 The primary purpose of the present study is to determine the life cycle and technology prediction based on patent bibliometric data using Markov hidden model. The study population included 50,915 patent licenses in medical equipment extracted from the US
Ali Mansouri, Maryam Mohammadpour
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Performance of a new single-use bronchoscope versus a marketed single-use comparator: a bench study
BMC Pulmonary Medicine, 2022 Background Single-use flexible bronchoscopes eliminate cross contamination from reusable bronchoscopes and are cost-effective in a number of clinical settings.
Carla R. Lamb +8 more
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Interventions to Control Virus Transmission During an Outbreak of Ebola Hemorrhagic Fever: Experience from Kikwit, Democratic Republic of the Congo, 1995. [PDF]
, 1999 On 6 May 1995, the Médecins sans Frontières (MSF) coordinator in Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), received a request for assistance for what was believed to be a concurrent outbreak of bacillary dysentery and viral hemorrhagic fever ...
Kerstiëns, B, Matthys, F
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Thermal imaging for the operator's comfort assessment in the aspect of the COVID-19 pandemic [PDF]
Archives of Transport, 2021 The article aims to preliminary analyze and identify the working conditions of an operator wearing disposable personal protective equipment and features and usability of the suit.
Marek Kisilowski +1 more
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COVID-19 and respiratory protection for healthcare providers
International Journal of Occupational Medicine and Environmental Health, 2021 This article has investigated the considerations of healthcare facilities to utilize reusable respirators as an alternative to disposable respirators during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Sarkis Sozkes, Serda Sozkes
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Processing ultrasonic probes at different risks of infection
Вестник Витебского государственного медицинского университета, 2022 Everywhere in clinics of different countries, there is an insufficiently adequate processing of sensors and other elements of ultrasound (US) equipment, and this often happens due to lack of awareness of US diagnostics specialists.
Dikareva E.A., Pimanov S.I.
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