COVID-19: ensuring our medical equipment can meet the challenge
COVID-19: ensuring our medical equipment can meet the challenge
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DOI：
10.1080/17434440.2020.1772757
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发表时间：
2020-06-02
影响因子：
3.1
通讯作者：
Opocher, Giuseppe
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作者：
Garzotto, Francesco;Ceresola, Erica;Opocher, Giuseppe
预测冠状病毒疾病在全球的传播并因此为医院设施准备所需的技术是一项挑战。全球范围内用于支持受 Covid-19 影响的患者的基本医疗设备的可用性有限。涵盖的领域 这一视角从技术角度对这一流行病进行了探讨，重点关注监管机构为应对设备短缺问题所采取的主要行动。还研究了临床实践中的风险/效益评估和主要感染控制政策。专家意见 监管机构已经修改了医疗器械指令以应对这一流行病，但每次的方式都不同。在这种特殊情况下，科学家和技术专家应与医学专家合作，共同重新评估医疗设备管理及其使用和重复使用的风险分析，以改善全球医疗保健。必须尽一切努力为Covid-19患者提供至少具有可接受的最低性能的必要设备，同时保持用户的高标准安全。本手稿的目的是强调技术挑战，以便通过有针对性的行动，防止操作标准因缺乏医疗设备而低于护理标准。
To predict the spread of coronavirus disease globally and consequently prepare the hospital facilities with the required technology is a challenge. The availability of essential medical equipment to support patients affected by Covid-19 is globally limited. Areas covered This perspective gives a technical view of the pandemic focusing on the main actions taken by regulatory agencies to cope with the shortage of devices. The risk/benefit assessment and the main infection control policies in the clinical practices are also looked at. Expert opinion Regulatory agencies have amended their medical devices directives to address the pandemic, but each in a different way. In this exceptional situation scientist and technology experts in collaboration with medical specialists should work together to re-assess the risk analysis on medical equipment management and their use and re-use in this context with the aim to improve global health care Every effort must be made to provide the necessary devices at least with the minimum acceptable performances for Covid-19 patients while maintaining a high standard of safety for users. The aim of the present manuscript is to highlight the technical challenges in order to prevent, through targeted actions, operating standards from falling below the standards of care due to a lack of medical devices.