Promoting Patient Safety within Implantable Medical Devices: Patient Alert

2005 ◽  
Author(s):  
Holly Vitense
Keyword(s):  
Patient Safety ◽  
Medical Devices ◽  
Implantable Medical Devices

Design of CPW-fed tapered MIMO antenna for ISM band applications

2015 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 227-230 ◽  
Author(s):  
Srimathi Mathialagan
Keyword(s):  
Patient Safety ◽  
Power Consumption ◽  
Radio Frequency ◽  
Medical Devices ◽  
Return Loss ◽  
Coplanar Waveguide ◽  
Human Tissues ◽  
Implantable Medical Devices ◽  
Mimo Antenna ◽  
Ism Band

In this paper, an implantable coplanar waveguide-fed tapered monopole antenna for industrial scientific and medical band (2.4–2.48 GHz) applications is proposed. This proposed design has an overall dimension of 44 × 44 × 0.5 mm3. The designed antenna is made compatible for implantation on human tissues such as skin, fat, or muscles by embedding it on the RT Duroid substrate and the 10 dB return loss bandwidth is 6.12% ranging from 2.35 to 2.5 GHz. This proposed antenna can be significantly used in implantable medical devices and radio frequency (RF), because of its merits such as conformability, flexibility in design and shape, biocompatibility, patient safety, miniaturization, power consumption, etc.

Clinical Cybersecurity Training Through Novel High Fidelity Simulations (Preprint)

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christian Dameff ◽  
Jordan Selzer ◽  
Jonathan Fisher ◽  
James Killeen ◽  
Jeffrey Tully
Keyword(s):  
Patient Safety ◽  
Patient Care ◽  
Medical Devices ◽  
Healthcare Systems ◽  
High Fidelity ◽  
Protected Health Information ◽  
Patient Harm ◽  
Security Vulnerabilities ◽  
Clinical Simulations ◽  
Medical Infrastructure

BACKGROUND Cybersecurity risks in healthcare systems have traditionally been measured in data breaches of protected health information but compromised medical devices and critical medical infrastructure raises questions about the risks of disrupted patient care. The increasing prevalence of these connected medical devices and systems implies that these risks are growing. OBJECTIVE This paper details the development and execution of three novel high fidelity clinical simulations designed to teach clinicians to recognize, treat, and prevent patient harm from vulnerable medical devices. METHODS Clinical simulations were developed which incorporated patient care scenarios with hacked medical devices based on previously researched security vulnerabilities. RESULTS Clinician participants universally failed to recognize the etiology of their patient’s pathology as being the result of a compromised device. CONCLUSIONS Simulation can be a useful tool in educating clinicians in this new, critically important patient safety space.

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