Equipment Safety
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Subject Areas on Research
- Advances in video and imaging in ureteroscopy.
- Advancing medical device innovation through collaboration and coordination of structured data capture pilots: Report from the Medical Device Epidemiology Network (MDEpiNet) Specific, Measurable, Achievable, Results-Oriented, Time Bound (SMART) Think Tank.
- Adverse events in the use of HeartMate vented electric and Novacor left ventricular assist devices: comparing apples and oranges.
- Applications of TMS to therapy in psychiatry.
- Assessment of a modified acoustic lens for electromagnetic shock wave lithotripters in a swine model.
- Bridging Unmet Medical Device Ecosystem Needs With Strategically Coordinated Registries Networks.
- Catheter access for hemodialysis: an overview.
- Central venous catheter integrity during mechanical power injection of iodinated contrast medium.
- Coil design considerations for deep transcranial magnetic stimulation.
- Comparison of direct aortic and femoral cannulation for port-access cardiac operations.
- Complications related to percutaneous transvenous mitral commissurotomy.
- Conditionally Increased Acoustic Pressures in Nonfetal Diagnostic Ultrasound Examinations Without Contrast Agents: A Preliminary Assessment.
- Constructing the informatics and information technology foundations of a medical device evaluation system: a report from the FDA unique device identifier demonstration.
- Development of a new technique for reducing pressure pulse generation during 308-nm excimer laser coronary angioplasty.
- Device therapy in the management of congestive heart failure.
- Economic implications of potential changes to regulatory and reimbursement policies for medical devices.
- Edge targeting reduces the number of shock waves required for biliary ESWL in vitro.
- Effect of defibrillation threshold testing on heart failure hospitalization or death in the Multicenter Automatic Defibrillator Implantation Trial-Cardiac Resynchronization Therapy (MADIT-CRT).
- Effects of reflected CO2 laser energy on operative field materials: risks to patients and operating room personnel.
- Efficacy assessment criteria based on risk and cost.
- Electroconvulsive therapy does not damage the brain.
- Endoscopic removal of metallic airway stents.
- Ethical considerations regarding the implementation of new technologies and techniques in surgery.
- Evaluation of diagnostic imaging technologies and therapeutics devices: better information for better decisions: proceedings of a multidisciplinary workshop.
- Frequency dependence of the cardiac threshold to alternating current between 10 Hz and 160 Hz.
- Generating comparative evidence on new drugs and devices after approval.
- How much time is safety worth? A comparison of trigger configurations on pneumatic nail guns in residential framing.
- Implantable Cardiac Alert System for Early Recognition of ST-Segment Elevation Myocardial Infarction.
- Implementation of a smart pump champions program to decrease potential patient harm.
- Injuries to the bronchi and lungs caused by laser-ignited endotracheal tube fires.
- Integrated circuit amplifiers for multi-electrode intracortical recording.
- Integrating Cerebrospinal Fluid Shunt Quality Checks into the World Health Organization's Safe Surgery Checklist: A Pilot Study.
- Late abdominal aortic aneurysm enlargement after endovascular repair with the Excluder device.
- Lung isolation during port-access cardiac surgery: double-lumen endotracheal tube versus single-lumen endotracheal tube with a bronchial blocker.
- Management of lawnmower injuries to the lower extremity in children and adolescents.
- Medical device surveillance world-wide.
- Multicenter automatic defibrillator implantation trial: reduce inappropriate therapy (MADIT-RIT): background, rationale, and clinical protocol.
- New precompetitive paradigms: focus on cardiac safety.
- Novel intravascular defibrillator: defibrillation thresholds of intravascular cardioverter-defibrillator compared to conventional implantable cardioverter-defibrillator in a canine model.
- Ocular safety of recreational lasers.
- On the characterization of coils for deep transcranial magnetic stimulation.
- Pandora's boxes: questions unleashed in airport scanner debate.
- Part I: Identifying holes in the safety net.
- Part II: Sealing holes in the safety net.
- Patient selection for mechanical circulatory support.
- Perspectives of residential contractors on nail gun safety.
- PlasmaKinetic bipolar vessel sealing: burst pressures and thermal spread in an animal model.
- Postmarket evaluation of breakthrough technologies.
- Postmarket surveillance and returned product analysis: success but not transparency.
- RTOG quality assurance guidelines for interstitial hyperthermia.
- Renal cryoablation and radio frequency ablation: an evaluation of worst case scenarios in a porcine model.
- Restoring range of motion via stress relaxation and static progressive stretch in posttraumatic elbow contractures.
- Safety and efficacy of a totally subcutaneous implantable-cardioverter defibrillator.
- Safety of serial MRI in patients with implantable cardioverter defibrillators.
- Simplified ureteral stent placement with the assistance of a ureteral access sheath.
- Single-center North American experience with wolf Piezolith 3000 in management of urinary calculi.
- Stiffness of simulated radial neck fractures fixed with 4 different devices.
- Suppression of large intraluminal bubble expansion in shock wave lithotripsy without compromising stone comminution: refinement of reflector geometry.
- Task Group 142 report: quality assurance of medical accelerators.
- Task force 5: Expert testimony and opinions.
- Technology Assessment Status Evaluation: guidewires in gastrointestinal endoscopy. February, 1997. ASGE. American Society for Gastrointestinal Endoscopy.
- Technology Assessment Status Evaluation: stents for gastrointestinal strictures. May, 1997. ASGE. American Society for Gastrointestinal Endoscopy.
- Technology assessment status evaluation: overtube use in gastrointestinal endoscopy March 1996.
- The Cardiac Safety Research Consortium enters its second decade: An invitation to participate.
- The National ICD Registry Report: version 2.1 including leads and pediatrics for years 2010 and 2011.
- The VB-1 catheter: an improved catheter for difficult-to-engage internal mammary artery grafts.
- The academic research consortium governance charter.
- The bent stent.
- The spectrum of complications following left ventricular assist device placement.
- Transoral robotic surgery using a carbon dioxide flexible laser for tumors of the upper aerodigestive tract.
- Unique device identifiers for coronary stent postmarket surveillance and research: a report from the Food and Drug Administration Medical Device Epidemiology Network Unique Device Identifier demonstration.
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Keywords of People
- Badea, Cristian Tudorel, Professor in Radiology, Biomedical Engineering
- McClintock, Shawn Michael, Adjunct Associate Professor in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences, Brain Stimulation and Neurophysiology
- Milano, Carmelo Alessio, Professor of Surgery, Surgery, Cardiovascular and Thoracic Surgery
- Swaminathan, Madhav, Professor of Anesthesiology, Anesthesiology, Cardiothoracic
- Toth, Cynthia Ann, Joseph A.C. Wadsworth Distinguished Professor of Ophthalmology, Biomedical Engineering