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Member States recognized in World Health Assembly (WHA) resolutions WHA60.29 (2007) and WHA 67.20 (2014) that medical devices are indispensable for health-care delivery but that their selection, regulation and use present enormous challenges, especially for low- and middle-income countries (LMIC).
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2011年5月12日 · Overview. “Core medical equipment” refers here to technologies that are commonly considered as important or necessary for specific preventive, diagnostic, treatment or rehabilitation procedures carried out in most health care facilities. Today, there are more than 10,000 types of medical devices available. The selection of appropriate ...
2011年1月1日 · WHO Medical device technical series. Three documents in this technical series have been developed specifically to aid a health facility or a national ministry of health to establish or improve a medical equipment maintenance programme. The documents address medical equipment inventory management, maintenance, and computerized maintenance management systems. Each of these documents can be used ...
2011年12月31日 · WHO Medical device technical series. A maintenance strategy includes procedures for inspection, as well as preventive and corrective maintenance. Performance inspections ensure that equipment is operating correctly, safety inspections ensure the equipment is safe for both patients and operators, and preventive maintenance (PM) aims to extend the life of the equipment and reduce failure rates.
2021年7月30日 · Prioritizing medical devices. Medical devices are indispensable tools for quality health care delivery, but their selection and appropriate use pose a significant challenge in many parts of the world. Medical devices include from a syringe, catheters and surgical mask, to complex devices like pacemakers and prothesis to magnetic resonance.
Medical devices should be safe, of good quality and appropriate to the settings in where they are used. Recognizing this important role of health technologies towards universal health coverage, the World Health Assembly adopted resolution WHA60.29 in May 2007. By adopting this resolution, Member States urged expansion of expertise in the field ...
2020年2月10日 · In vitro diagnostics. In vitro diagnostics (IVDs) are tests that can detect disease, conditions and infections. In vitro simply means ‘in glass’, meaning these tests are typically conducted in test tubes and similar equipment, as opposed to in vivo tests, which are conducted in the body itself. In vitro tests may be done in laboratories ...
The nomenclature of medical devices is a coding and naming system used to generically classify and identify all medical devices and related health products. According to different classification and nomenclature systems, there are between 5,000 to 24,000 different types of medical devices. They range from the very simple to complex, inexpensive ...
2021年12月3日 · Trainings for medical devices. As part of the COVID-19 response WHO developed a series of training videos for medical equipment related to oxygen therapy. The videos include the the different steps during equipment lifecycle (Figure 1). The equipment in these training videos include: Pulse oximeter. Mechanical ventilator.
