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Safety Precautions and Operating Procedures in an (A)BSL-4 Laboratory: 4. Medical Imaging Procedures
Published on: October 3, 2016
[To probe the system of performance tests and safety inspections in medical equipment]
1The 3rd Affiliated Hospital of Wenzhou Medical College, Ruian 325200. ptianzhou@126.com
Abstract:
The potential problems of QA (quality assurance) and safety control of medical equipment in hospital were analyzed. On this base, this paper developed the testing system for the performance tests and the safety inspections of medical equipment in hospital, and discusses the results and the problems existing in the running systems.
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