Safety in Electromedical Technology

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Provides the principles, safety, and technical considerations required for designing safety into medical devices, equipment manufacture, testing, and servicing. Also discusses specific safety design problems, and how to be able to properly identify, estimate, and handle risk situations. Covers aspects of safety for electrically powered medical devices and equipment, methods for recognizing risks, safety strategies, legal aspects, rules for technical and device- technical conformation, biological results, and dangerous limits of electrical current and voltage, safety procedures, risk analysis, and visual testing techniques. Intended for clinical, design, test engineers, and quality control and assurance personnel. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.