Monday, June 4, 2012 1:30 pm
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1:30 pm
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Speaker: Steven Dain MD, FRCPC (Western University)
Location: June 4 2012, 1:30pm, EIT 3142
ABSTRACT
Medical devices need to be designed to survive in the hostile
environment of the operating room, critical care unit, or patient's
home, and potentially to be used by persons ranging from a grade 6
education who doesn't speak English well to a person with expert
knowledge of medical practice. They need to be physically and
electrically robust, reliable, yet easy to learn and easy to use with
minimal error. Hardware and software design must be resilient and not
pose a hazard to the patient, the user or the environment in which it
is intended to be used.
In this survey lecture, I will provide an overview of the design
guidelines and requirements necessary to bring a medical device
successfully to the marketplace, by discussing the needs of the
healthcare provider and patients; and showing examples of excellent
and potentially hazardous devices that are currently in use today.
BIO
Steven Dain MD, FRCPC is an Associate Professor of Anesthesia and
Perioperative Medicine at the Schulich School of Medicine and
Dentistry and Adjunct Professor in the Department of Computer Science
at Western University in London, Ontario Canada. He practices
clinical anesthesia at University Hospital of the London Health
Sciences Centre and at St Josephs’ Healthcare London where he is the
Director of Anesthesia Informatics.
In 2001 Dr. Dain was a recipient of a US National Library of Medicine
Scholarship in Health Informatics at Woods Hole, Massachusetts.
For over 15 years, Dr. Dain has participated in the writing and
development of Canadian National and International Standards for
medical equipment and design and construction of healthcare
facilities. He is currently the Chair of the Canadian Advisory
Committee for the International Organization for Standardization
ISO/TC121 - Anaesthetic Equipment and Medical Breathing Machines, 2
other CSA Committees and a member of the Canadian Anesthesiologists’
Society Standards of Care Committee and Patient Safety Committee
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