Advantage training take two

Ensure the performance and safety of electrosurgical units with simplified testing using the QA-ES III electrosurgical analyzer. The QA-ES III is capable of testing all modern high power electrosurgical units with generator output current accuracy as low as ± 2.5 %. Collect all measurements including vessel sealing, contact quality monitor (CQM), high frequency (HF) leakage and output power distribution in single or continuous mode. You don’t need to carry additional accessories or cables as the QA-ES III has all hardware and software needed for complete testing.

What can I learn here?

• Continuous operation: Continuous measurement of power, current, peak-to-peak voltage (closed load only), and crest factor
• Single operation: Single measurement after the set delay time of the ESU output of power, current, peak-to-peak voltage (closed load only), and crest factor
• Power distribution: Tests impedance-sensing circuitry in power guarantee functions in new-generation ESU. Applicable parameters – power, current, peak-to-peak voltage (closed load only) and crest factor – can easily be observed during the measurements
• RF leakage current: Provides connections and load configurations to measure HF leakage from both grounded and isolated equipment
• RECQM: Test the return electrode control quality monitoring using the QA-ES internal loads

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Intro to Using the QA-ES III

Access self-paced module for the patient monitor testing chapter in the new medical device quality assurance curriculum.

Access self-paced module for the patient monitor testing chapter in the new medical device quality assurance curriculum. Patient monitors were among the first electronic technologies to be brought into the hospital. Though patient monitor designs have dramatically improved reliability, the frequent failure of patient-connected sensors still makes it important to perform quality assurance testing. Innovative technologies that have improved NIBP-measurements during patient movement, and brought diagnosis formerly available only after clinical laboratory analysis of blood samples cannot be tested with older test instruments. Patient monitor testing is far from routine. The patient monitor testing courses introduce new concepts for patient monitor quality assurance (performance and safety testing, documenting for regulatory compliance, productivity improvement, and using test instruments effectively).

What can I learn here?

• Why NIBP accuracy can only be determined using static pressure comparisons
• What NIBP dynamic simulations actually tell us about performance repeatability
• Why clinical condition-based simultaneous, in-parallel, correlated simulations make testing fast while still complying with the manufacturer’s specified inspection procedure
• How visually-guided test procedures speed scheduled inspections and PM
• Troubleshooting versus routine performance

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Introduction to the ProSim 8

NIBP: Monitoring and Test Optimization

Biomedical equipment maintenance training focused on infusion pump testing.

While small hospitals and clinics may include a manageable quantity of infusion pumps, including enteral feeding pumps, syringe pumps, infusion controllers, larger medical facilities often include as high a quantity as 3 infusion devices per bed. This number can reach seemingly un-manageable quantities compared to the biomedical engineering department staff available to perform medical device quality assurance testing. Recently the high incidence of failure across all makes and models of infusion devices has caused the US FDA to focus its attention on reducing the un-managed risk to the patient posed by these failures. Batch-testing may provide a more economically acceptable method for completing tests.

What can I learn about infusion pump testing?

• Why only electronic burette technology can test multiple pumps and multiple channels efficiently and cost-effectively
• How easy it is to perform basic tests accurately and to include in a batch-testing method
• How automatic test instrument configuration and measurement data collection make testing more efficient
• How visually-guided testing with predetermined test limits standardizes work, reduces human error

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Introduction to Using the IDA-5

Start your biomedical engineering training today.

Electrical safety testing was the first mandate of biomedical engineering, and why biomedical engineering was brought into the hospital as a functional area in the 1970’s. Today there are many electrical safety standards, most of which have been harmonized with the IEC standards found under IEC 60601. The basis standards (IEC 60601-1 and IEC 62353) are constantly under review and revision. Not only is it hard to keep up, it is also not easy to understand how to apply testing methodologies, or testing limits.

Here are some of the items your will learn in this training:

• Similarities and differences between tests, terminology, and standards
• How to easily perform basic tests; simple solutions for in-depth testing
• How automatic test instrument configuration and measurement data collection make testing more efficient
• How visually-guided testing with predetermined test limits standardizes work, reduces human error

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Introduction to using the ESA615

Defibrillators include many more patient parameters, modes of operation and innovative designs than ever before. Among these are temporary transcutaneous pacemakers, AED-like automatic assessment of arrhythmias, and algorithms and circuitry that ensure defibrillation-therapy-energy delivery based on the settings. Older test instruments may not be able to test these newer design capabilities.

What can I learn here?

• Why 50 ohm test loads are no longer enough
• Defibrillator and AED best practices
• Why you need to test AEDs
• Charge time testing? When, how, what energy?
• Test Automation Software time savers

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Medical device technician training for gas flow testing

Medical gas flow and pressure are produced by many more kinds of medical devices besides ventilators and anesthesia systems. While ventilators and anesthesia systems have specific requirements for complete quality assurance testing, the basics of flow, pressure, and time are fundamental. Endoscopic insufflators, tracheal and wound suctioning devices, side-stream-sampling gas concentration monitors, flow meters, vacuum pressure gauges, and more are in the inventory of every hospital, clinic, and doctor’s office

What can I learn here?

• Overview and Intro to Using the VT900A for Ventilator Testing
• Intro to Using the VT900A with VAPOR for Anesthesia System Vaporizer Testing
• Medical Device Qaulity Assurance - Ventilators

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