Equipment Safety

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  Subject Areas on Research

  • Achieving meaningful device surveillance: from reaction to proaction. 
  • 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. 
  • How much time is safety worth? A comparison of trigger configurations on pneumatic nail guns in residential framing. 
  • 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. 
  • Part I: Identifying holes in the safety net. 
  • Part II: Sealing holes in the safety net. 
  • Patient selection for mechanical circulatory support. 
  • Pediatric patient safety: common problems in the use of resuscitative aids for simplifying pediatric emergency care. 
  • 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, Radiology
  • 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 Professor of Ophthalmology, Ophthalmology, Vitreoretinal Diseases & Surgery