I came across some interesting posts in the Biomed Listserv. A biomed from a 250 bed hospital is looking for feedback on GE and Philips telemetry systems. This 260 bed community hospital is going to buy a 12 channel system, and ramp up to about 150 of the devices over the next few years. All […]
Yet another in a string of studies showing the relative safety of cell phones in hospitals has been published. I would stop posting on this if more hospitals would update their cell phone policies; but alas, this is health care.
Once again, Mayo Clinic Proceedings publishes a paper (abstract here) on more tests (as if […]
The FDA has cleared for marketing Baxter's Colleague infusion pump that was the subject of recalls and product seizures in 2005. From the FDA press release:
Confusing display screens, software defects, swollen batteries and other defects
could have resulted in the pumps either shutting down or under- or over-delivering
critical medication and fluids to […]
