Medical Equipment Books and Publications

pHealth 2020

Smart mobile systems such as microsystems, smart textiles, smart implants, and sensor-controlled medical devices, together with their related networks, have become important enablers for telemedicine and ubiquitous pervasive health to become next-generation health ...

By IOS Press

Fatigue and Fracture of Medical Metallic Materials and Devices

Get the latest information on the thermal and mechanical properties of shape memory alloys (SMA's) and metallic medical materials and devices. Eleven peer-reviewed papers: • Define the environments in body-specific locations such as the superficial femoral artery, carotid, abdominal and thoracic arteries• Develop constitutive expressions for the deformation response of nitinol via ...

By ASTM International

Tiger Bone & Rhino Horn: The Destruction of Wildlife for Traditional Chinese Medicine

In parts of Korea and China, moon bears, black but for the crescent-shaped patch of white on their chests, are captured in the wild and brought to "bear farms" where they are imprisoned in squeeze cages, and a steel catheter is inserted into their gall bladders. The dripping bile is collected as a cure for ailments ranging from an upset stomach to skin burns. The bear may live as long as fifteen ...

By Island Press

Safety Meetings for Health Care Workers

• Training your health care staff on the subject of safety has never been easier or more economical. With this comprehensive safety program, you get the materials to run an effective safety meeting on over 40 topics. • We provide everything you need to run a complete safety meeting. • No need to research topics, gather materials, or monitor new regs surrounding safety and health care … ...

By BLR - Business & Legal Resources

Consumer and Healthcare Packaging Standards -CD-ROM

AVAILABLE IN PRINT or CD-ROM! This volume contains 85 of the latest standards on consumer and healthcare packaging. Standards cover: • Flammability of Aerosol Products • Water Vapor Transmission of Flexible Heat-Sealed Packages for Dry Products • Minimum Application Torque of Type IA Child-Resistant Closures • User Applied Drug Labels in ...

By ASTM International

Consumer and Healthcare Packaging Standards - Print version

AVAILABLE IN PRINT or CD-ROM! This volume contains 85 of the latest standards on consumer and healthcare packaging. Standards cover: • Flammability of Aerosol Products • Water Vapor Transmission of Flexible Heat-Sealed Packages for Dry Products • Minimum Application Torque of Type IA Child-Resistant Closures • User Applied Drug Labels in ...

By ASTM International

Titanium Alloys in Surgical Implants

The symposium on Titanium Alloys in Surgical Implants was held in Phoenix, Ariz., on 11-12 May 1981. Sponsoring the event were ASTM Committee F04 on Medical and Surgical Materials and Devices and ASTM Committee B10 on Reactive and Refractory Metals and Alloys. The symposium chairmen were Hugh A. Luckey, 3M Orthopedic Products, and Fred Kubli, Jr., RMI Company, both of whom also served as editors ...

By ASTM International

Medical Devices: Measurements, Quality Assurance and Standards

This publication provides physicians, scientists, and members of industry and government with a comprehensive overview of the role and impact of medical standards and measurements on health care. The insights, discussions, and recommendations presented in this text are representative of many individuals' contributions. However, coordination of this endeavor is due to joint participation by ...

By ASTM International

Properties of Austenitic Stainless Steels and Their Weld Metals (Influence of Slight Chemistry Variations)

There are seven papers in this publication. Four deal with the influence of such elements as nitrogen and niobium on primarily elevated temperature behavior of AISI stainless steel Types 304, 304L, 316, and 316H. The other three papers deal with the effects of intentionally added or controlled as well as residual element content on weldability and subsequent mechanical properties of weld metal. ...

By ASTM International

Elevated Temperature Properties as Influenced by Nitrogen Additions to Types 304 and 316 Austenitic Stainless Steels

The Symposium on Elevated Temperature Properties as Influenced by Nitrogen Additions to Types 304 and 316 Austenitic Stainless Steels was presented at an informal workshop session held at the 72nd Annual Meeting of the Society, in Atlantic City, N. J., 22—27 June 1969. The sponsors of this symposium included the Joint Committee on Effect of Temperature on the Properties of Metals, Metals ...

By ASTM International

Applications Related Phenomena in Titanium Alloys

The Symposium on Applications Related Phenomena in Titanium Alloys was presented 18-19 April 1967 in Los Angeles, Calif. ASTM Committee B10 on Reactive and Refractory Metals and Alloys sponsored the symposium. Hans Conrad, University of Kentucky, was the symposium chairman. It was divided into four sessions, and presiding as chairmen of these sessions were Dr. Conrad; R. I. Jaffee, Battelle ...

By ASTM International

Endourology Case Reports Journal

JE Case Reports is a new, online-only, open access forum for sharing clinically interesting and educational case reports on the treatment and surgical management of urologic diseases, including controversial cases and novel use of technology. A sister journal to Journal of Endourology, JE Case Reports provides rapid peer review and publication and wide ...

By Mary Ann Liebert, Inc.

Computer Vision and Mathematical Methods in Medical and Biomedical Image Analysis

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed joint post proceedings of the international workshop Computer Vision Approaches to Medical Image Analysis, CVAMIA 2004, and Mathematical Methods in Biomedical Image Analysis, MMBIA 2004, both held in Prague, Czech Republic, in May 2004 as part of EECV 2004. The 37 revised full papers presented were carefully selected and improved during two rounds of ...

By Springer-Verlag GmbH

Virtual Endoscopy

The subject of this book is the study of the relative roles of CT and MRI for all tumors; by contrast comparison with clinical results, the respective indications for these techniques are clarified, in term of diagnosis treatment planning and survey with educational presentation of radiologic ...

By Springer-Verlag GmbH

Silicone Elastomers 2011

Silicone elastomers have a unique combination of properties not found with organic elastomers, such as stability over a very wide temperature range, good electrical properties and environmental resistance, no smell or taste, high biocompatibility, low softness without plasticizers, and high colourability and transparency. Despite their relatively high cost, silicone elastomers are being ...

By Smithers Rapra

Anatomy Ontologies for Bioinformatics

Bioinformatics as a discipline has come of age, and there are now numerous databases and tools that are widely used by researchers in the biomedical field. However, successful development of future bioinformatics applications will depend on an appropriately formalised representation of domain knowledge. This book provides a timely and first-of-its-kind collection of contributed chapters on ...

By Springer-Verlag GmbH

Clinical Applications of Immunomics

This is the second volume in a series that will be dedicated to publishing advances in immunomics particularly those focusing on systemic and integrative approaches in basic and clinical immunology, immunoinformatics, and immunologically relevant instrumentation and high-throughput screening methods. Rapid improvement in accessibility to molecular databases as well as availability of high ...

By Springer-Verlag GmbH

Allergy Matters

In Western societies, the incidence and prevalence of respiratory and food-related allergies have increased rapidly over the past decades. Changes in life style, e.g. in hygiene, child vaccination, housing insulation, food consumption patterns, etc. are thought to be involved in this increase. Direct and indirect costs related to allergy are expected to rise rapidly, especially in the Central and ...

By Springer-Verlag GmbH

Distributed Computing, Artificial Intelligence, Bioinformatics, Soft Computing, and Ambient Assisted Living

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 10th International Work-Conference on Artificial Neural Networks, IWANN 2009, held in Salamanca, Spain in June 2009. The 167 revised full papers presented together with 3 invited lectures were carefully reviewed and selected from over 230 submissions. The papers are organized in thematic sections on theoretical foundations and models; ...

By Springer-Verlag GmbH

CPR and AED: The Chain Of Survival (Handbook)

A heart attack can happen in a heartbeat. Can your workers respond as quickly to save a colleague's life?Every two minutes, someone dies of sudden cardiac arrest. When it happens to someone in your workplace, can he or she survive such an event? Do your workers know the four links in the chain of cardiac survival:? Early access to care Early CPREarly defibrillation or electric shockEarly ...

By Dupont Sustainable Solutions