Guidelines for Reporting a Medical Device Incident
Medical Devices Between Fail-safe and Safe-life The saying “Necessity is the mother of invention” is by far the most applicable...
How to Maintain an Infant Incubator
Infant Incubator An infant incubator is a see through container with armholes and a heater that keeps the internal space...
Patenting your medical device in the USA
Medical devices patent Many a genius took their idea to their graves. All for the wanton fear of a wolf...
Is a pulse oximeter any help against COVID-19?
Why the need for a Pulse Oximeter? The article “Repairing a Stethoscope is ever so easy” started with an hilarious...
Dont discard your faulty shygmomanometer!
The Sphygmomanometer. A sphygmomanometer is a blood pressure machine/monitor. Considering the inherent risks associated with wrong pressure readings from a...
How to Maintain an Operating Table
Operating Table An operating table is used in the operating room for surgeons to operate on. It is characterized by...
Critical care tips for a Laryngoscope
Laryngoscope The human respiratory pathway may be described in similitude with a house corridor – a dark one, given its...
Repairing a Stethoscope is ever so easy
STETHOSCOPES Stethoscopes are by far the most popular point of care device you’ll find a Nigerian doctor armed with –...
Critical care tips for an Electrosurgical Unit
Electrosurgical Unit (Surgical diathermy machine) Electrosurgical unit (ESU) is a device used for surgical cutting and coagulation of bleeding vessels...
Maintenance tips for a Fetal Doppler
Fetal Doppler Monitor A Doppler fetal monitor is a hand-held ultrasound transducer used to detect the fetal heartbeat for prenatal care. It uses the Doppler effect to provide an...
Marketing your medical device; 5 steps to obtaining approval
… continued from “Patenting your medical device in the USA” Claiming substantial equivalence with a similar medical device in the...