Test Dummies for Wheelchairs: How Standards Cut Costs and Help Simulate Human Occupants
Don’t let the name fool you. Test dummies, as anthropomorphic testing devices, are designed to suffer blunt force trauma, but they do so to acquire…
ANSI/AAMI/ISO 11737-1:2018 – Determination of a Population of Microrganisms on Products for Sterilization
ANSI/AAMI/ISO 11737-1:2018 – Sterilization of health care products – Microbiological methods – Part 1: Determination of a population of microrganisms on products has been released….
ISO Health Care Product Sterilization Standards Adopted By AAMI
A health care product is not sterile unless it is free of microorganisms. Sterilization is assured with these products and their materials and components through…
Preoperative Pregnancy Testing, As Addressed by Standard Practices
Various medical operations or procedures can be considered high-risk for patients under specific conditions. For pregnant patients, both the patient and the fetus can be…
Guideline for Medication Safety
The Guideline for Medication Safety, AORN MAN-879D-2020, is a document published by the Association of periOperative Registered Nurses (AORN), which serves as the largest professional…
Changes to ISO/IEC 17025:2017, Calibration Laboratories Standard
ISO/IEC 17025:2017 – General requirements for the competence of testing and calibration laboratories has been released. This standard specifies the general guidelines for the competence, impartiality,…
AAMI TIR59: Integrating Human Factors into Medical Devices
Human factors, or ergonomics, strives to understand the interactions among humans and the other elements of a system. Integrating human factors engineering, otherwise known as…
Evaluating Functional Stress Due to Dental Implants
With the trust patients have in their doctor, whether ophthalmologist, gynecologist, pediatrician, or dentist, it is expected that the doctor has completed thorough risk analysis…
ANSI | Health Care | Lighting
ANSI/IES RP-29-22: Lighting Hospitals & Healthcare Facilities
Workplace lighting is a very nuanced subject, especially when the psychological and physiological effects that poor lighting can have on people are taken into account….