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

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

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

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

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

Web-Based Applications in Healthcare and Biomedicine

This proposed Special Issue in AoIS will present studies from leading researchers and practitioners focusing on current challenges, directions, trends, and opportunities associated with healthcare organizations and their strategic use of Web-enabled technologies. Healthcare and biomedical organizations are undergoing major transformations to meet the demand for improved access and quality of ...

By Springer-Verlag GmbH

Biomedical Informatics in Cancer Research

This book will review work from a number of researchers who have produced open source software addressing the need for data management, integration, analysis, and visualization to aid cancer research. With the advent of high-throughput technologies in biomedicine, the need for data management and appropriate data analysis tools in genomics has increased dramatically, joining clinical trials data ...

By Springer-Verlag GmbH

Medical Emergencies: Citizen Responder (Handbook)

Emergencies can be terrifying, and sometimes, those who witness them have to respond right on the spot.Emergencies happen in the blink of an eye. To save lives, any witness must be as swift to react. This handbook illustrates what to do if a person meets a life-threatening medical emergency. It includes correct procedures for dealing with: Heart attacksChoking ...

By Dupont Sustainable Solutions

Medical Emergencies: Citizen Responder (DVD)

Emergencies can be terrifying, and sometimes, those who witness them have to respond right on the spot.Emergencies happen in the blink of an eye. To save lives, any witness must be as swift to react. This program illustrates what to do if a person meets a life-threatening medical emergency. It includes correct procedures for dealing with: Heart attacksChoking ...

By Dupont Sustainable Solutions

Biomedical Data and Applications

Compared with data from general application domains, modern biological data has many unique characteristics. Biological data are often characterized as having large volumes, complex structures, high dimensionality, evolving biological concepts, and insufficient data modelling practices. Over the past several years, bioinformatics has become an all-encompassing term for everything relating to both ...

By Springer-Verlag GmbH

Biomedical Image Registration

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-proceedings of the Third International Workshop on Biomedical Image Registration, WBIR 2006, held in Utrecht, The Netherlands, in July 2006. The 20 revised full papers and 18 revised poster papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected for inclusion in the book. The papers cover all areas of biomedical image registration; methods of ...

By Springer-Verlag GmbH

Evaluating And Selecting The Best Medical Waste Treatment

This document will provide the criteria for consideration and analysis in the process of evaluating and selecting the best or most viable alternative medical waste treatment technology for a particular site-specific application. Over the last 15 years, it has been particularly difficult for facilities to plan and make the best, most cost-effective decisions for dealing with medical waste issues, ...

By Association for the Healthcare Environment (AHE)

Case Reports in Pancreatic Cancer

Case Reports in Pancreatic Cancer is an open access journal delivering authoritative case reports on all aspects of pancreatic cancer diagnosis, management, treatment, and outcomes. The Journal enables physicians, surgeons, oncologists, and the team of professionals that determine and administer care to share their experiences and foster communication and collaboration to optimize ...

By Mary Ann Liebert, Inc.

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.

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

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

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

Complex Medical Engineering

In the twenty-first century, applications in medicine and engineering must acquire greater safety and flexibility if they are to yield better products at higher efficiency. To this end, complex science and technology must be integrated in medicine and engineering. Complex medical engineering (CME) is a new field that merges medical science and technology, and includes biomedical robotics and ...

By Springer-Verlag GmbH