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    Anatomy & Physiology
    (Rice University, 2012)
    Human Anatomy and Physiology is designed for the two-semester anatomy and physiology course taken by life science and allied health students. It supports effective teaching and learning, and prepares students for further learning and future careers. The text focuses on the most important concepts and aims to minimize distracting students with more minor details. The development choices for this textbook were made with the guidance of hundreds of faculty who are deeply involved in teaching this course. These choices led to innovations in art, terminology, career orientation, practical applications, and multimedia-based learning, all with a goal of increasing relevance to students. We strove to make the discipline meaningful and memorable to students, so that they can draw from it a working knowledge that will enrich their future studies. Coverage and Scope The units of our Human Anatomy and Physiology textbook adhere to the scope and sequence followed by most two-semester courses nationwide.
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    BMET Algebra
    (CK-12 Foundation, 2011-02-09) Felder, Kenny; Gloag, Andrew; Krame, Melissa; Rawley, Eve
    This is a university level algebra textbook.
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    BMET Geometry
    (2011-02-01) Cifarelli, Victor; Fiori, Nick; Gloag, Andrew; Greenberg, Dan; Jordan, Lori; Sconyers, Jim; Zahner, Bill
    This is a university level geometry textbook for BMETs.
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    BMET Probability & Statistics
    (CK-12 FOUNDATION, 2011-09-01) Meery, Brenda; Parsons, Richard
    This is a university level probability and statistics textbook for BMETs.
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    BMET Trigonometry
    (CK-12 Foundation, 2011-09-01) Fortgang, Art; Gloag, Andrew; Hayes, Andrea; Landers, Mara; Meery, Brenda; Ottman, Larry; Rawley, Eve
    This is a university level trigonometry textbook for BMETs.
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    Calcukus Volume 2
    (2007) Herman, Edwin; Strang, Gilbert
    Calculus is designed for the typical two- or three-semester general calculus course, incorporating innovative features to enhance student learning. The book guides students through the core concepts of calculus and helps them understand how those concepts apply to their lives and the world around them. Due to the comprehensive nature of the material, we are offering the book in three volumes for flexibility and efficiency. Volume 2 covers integration, differential equations, sequences and series, and parametric equations and polar coordinates. Our Calculus Volume 2 textbook adheres to the scope and sequence of most general calculus courses nationwide. We have worked to make calculus interesting and accessible to students while maintaining the mathematical rigor inherent in the subject. With this objective in mind, the content of the three volumes of Calculus have been developed and arranged to provide a logical progression from fundamental to more advanced concepts, building upon what students have already learned and emphasizing connections between topics and between theory and applications. The goal of each section is to enable students not just to recognize concepts, but work with them in ways that will be useful in later courses and future careers. The organization and pedagogical features were developed and vetted with feedback from mathematics educators dedicated to the project.
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    Calculus Volume 1
    (Rice University, 2016) Herman, Edwin; Strang, Gilbert
    Our Calculus Volume 1 textbook adheres to the scope and sequence of most general calculus courses nationwide. We have worked to make calculus interesting and accessible to students while maintaining the mathematical rigor inherent in the subject. With this objective in mind, the content of the three volumes of Calculus have been developed and arranged to provide a logical progression from fundamental to more advanced concepts, building upon what students have already learned and emphasizing connections between topics and between theory and applications. The goal of each section is to enable students not just to recognize concepts, but work with them in ways that will be useful in later courses and future careers. The organization and pedagogical features were developed and vetted with feedback from mathematics educators dedicated to the project.
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    Calculus Volume 3
    (Rice University, 2013) Herman, Edwin; Strang, Gilbert
    Our Calculus Volume 3 textbook adheres to the scope and sequence of most general calculus courses nationwide. We have worked to make calculus interesting and accessible to students while maintaining the mathematical rigor inherent in the subject. With this objective in mind, the content of the three volumes of Calculus have been developed and arranged to provide a logical progression from fundamental to more advanced concepts, building upon what students have already learned and emphasizing connections between topics and between theory and applications. The goal of each section is to enable students not just to recognize concepts, but work with them in ways that will be useful in later courses and future careers. The organization and pedagogical features were developed and vetted with feedback from mathematics educators dedicated to the project.
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    Care and Safe Use of Hospital Equipment
    (VSO, 1998) Fear, David; Skeet, Muriel
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    College Physics
    (Rice University, 2013)
    Welcome to College Physics, an OpenStax College resource created with several goals in mind: accessibility, affordability, customization, and student engagement—all while encouraging learners toward high levels of learning. Instructors and students alike will find that this textbook offers a strong foundation in introductory physics, with algebra as a prerequisite. It is available for free online and in low-cost print and e-book editions. To broaden access and encourage community curation, College Physics is “open source” licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution (CC-BY) license. Everyone is invited to submit examples, emerging research, and other feedback to enhance and strengthen the material and keep it current and relevant for today’s students. You can make suggestions by contacting us at info@openstaxcollege.org. You can find the status of the project, as well as alternate versions, corrections, etc., on the StaxDash at http://openstaxcollege.org (http://openstaxcollege.org) .
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    Core Medical Equipment
    (2011) WHO
    Core medical equipment” refers here to technologies that are commonly considered as important or necessary for specific preventive, diagnostic, treatment or rehabilitation procedures carried out in most health care facilities. Today, there are more than 10,000 types of medical devices available. The selection of appropriate medical equipment always depends on local, regional or national requirements; factors to consider include the type of health facility where the devices are to be used, the health work force available and the burden of disease experienced in the specific catchment area. It is therefore impossible to make a list of core medical equipment which would be exhaustive and/or universally applicable. With that being said, we have reproduced hereafter a set of core medical equipment fact sheets which have been issued by the ECRI Institute and the GMDN Agency, with a view to raising stakeholders’ awareness about their existence and their functionality. Each fact sheet displays a type of medical equipment, the health problems addressed by the device, the operation procedures, its typical size, weight and price range, and infrastructure requirements for effective and safe use. Technologies are placed into context of existing nomenclature systems; they are not specific to any brand, model or vendor. The equipment is classified under the following categories: therapeutic, diagnostic, chronic disease and child health. The WHO Department of Essential Health Technologies is planning to continuously update the list of core medical equipment and make it publicly available on the WHO website for information purposes, subject to the disclaimers here below.
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    Devloping Anaesthesia Textbook Version 1.6
    (2007) Pescod, David
    Modern anaesthesia is safe. In countries that have extensive anaesthetic resources, the risk of dying is one in 100,000 to 500,000. The risk of death has decreased to one-tenth of what it was thirty years ago. Safety has improved with better knowledge of pharmacology and physiology, and advances in drugs, investigations, monitoring and education. The complexity and expense of providing anaesthesia has escalated. When resources (personnel, equipment, drugs and funding) are limited, an anaesthetist with good clinical skills and a thorough knowledge of physiology, pharmacology, equipment and how disease will affect the patient, can provide safe and effective anaesthesia.
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    Human Factors For Health Technology Safety: Evaluating and Improving the Use of Health Technology In The Real World
    (2015) Cassano-Piché, Andrea; Trbovich, Patricia; Griffin, Melissa; Lin, Ying Ling; Easty, Tony
    HumanEra was commissioned to write this book by the International Federation for Medical and Biological Engineering’s (IFMBE) Clinical Engineering Division (CED) to support biomedical technology professionals in using human factors methods to improve the safety of health technology within a range of organizations. For the purposes of this book, a biomedical technology professional refers to any person, regardless of their title (e.g., clinical engineer, biomedical engineer, biomedical equipment technician, medical technology manager, materials manager, health technology manager, administrator, clinician), responsible for managing technology in a healthcare setting. While they are not explicitly referenced throughout the book, the intent is to support patient safety leaders of all roles and titles in their efforts to improve health technology safety, as well as students learning to master human factors methods for applications in healthcare.
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    HUMAN PHYSIOLOGY
    (2007) Wikibooks Contributors
    Human physiology is the study of the functioning of the normal body, and is responsible for describing how various systems of the human body work. Explanations often begin at a macroscopic level and proceed to a molecular level. In 1926, Fritz Kahn portrayed the body as a complex chemical plant, as seen in the painting on the right. This textbook provides an introductory explanation of the workings of the human body, with an effort to draw connections between the body systems and explain their interdependencies. A framework for the book is homeostasis and how the body maintains balance within each system. This is intended as a first introduction to physiology for a college-level course. As such, some material is deliberately left out (but references will be provided within chapters for students wishing to learn more).
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    Infection Control for Viral Haemorrhagic Fevers in the African Health Care Setting 
    (Engineering World Health, 1998) Lloyd, Ethleen; Perry, Helen
    This manual describes a system for using VHF Isolation Precautions to reduce the risk of transmission of VHF in the health care setting. The VHF Isolation Precautions described in the manual make use of common low-cost supplies, such as household bleach, water, cotton cloth, and plastic sheeting. Although the information and recommendations are intended for health facilities in rural areas in the developing world, they are appropriate for any health facility with limited resources.
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    Instrumentación Médica en el Mundo en Desarrollo
    (Engineering World Health, 2006) Malkin, Robert
    ¿Cómo prueba usted un desfibrilador en un cerdo recién sacrificado? ¿Cómo puede usted utilizar un pedazo de pollo para probar una unidad electroquirúrgica? ¿Cómo puede usted probar las luces de fototerapia antes de liberarlas para usarlas en infantes cuando usted no tiene un fotómetro? Estas son el tipo de preguntas que un ingeniero trabajando en el mundo en desarrollo se hace todos los días. El equipo de prueba apropiado no está disponible, y el hospital tiene una necesidad urgente. Usted no puede ni liberar el equipo sin probarlo, ni negarle al equipo médico la única pieza de equipo que le podría ayudar al paciente. ¿Qué debería hacer usted? Este libro suministra respuestas: los tipos de pruebas prácticas y sugerencias de reparaciones que los ingenieros pueden utilizar cuando están en un hospital pobremente equipado, lejos de un departamento clínico de ingeniera
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    Instrumentation médicale dans le monde en développement
    (Engineering World Health, 2006) Malkin, Robert
    Comment testez-vous un défibrillateur sur un cochon fraichement tué ? Comment pouvez-vous utiliser un morceau de poulet pour tester un bistouri électrique ? Comment pouvez-vous tester les bilirubinomètres avant de les mettre en service sur des enfants quand vous n'avez pas de photomètre ? C'est le type de questions qu'un ingénieur travaillant dans un hôpital d'un pays en développement se pose chaque jour. L'équipement de test approprié n'est pas disponible et l'hôpital en a désespérément besoin. Vous ne pouvez pas mettre en service l'équipement sans le tester ni priver le personnel médical du seul équipement qui pourrait aider le patient. Que devez-vous faire ? Ce livre fourni les réponses : les sortes de tests pratiques et les suggestions de réparation que les ingénieurs peuvent employer dans un hôpital très mal équipé, très loin d'un service de génie biomédical. Si vous êtes un ingénieur qui doit partir bientôt dans un pays en développement, un technicien d'un pays en développement ou simplement un visiteur d'un de ces pays qui désire aider à combler le manque considérable d'équipements médicaux, alors ce livre est pour vous. Ce livre s'adresse principalement aux ingénieurs et techniciens qui vont habituellement travailler dans un établissement de santé public de niveau secondaire d'un pays en développement. Lire ce livre et le prendre avec vous ne vous prépare pas complètement à cette aventure de travail dans les pays en développement, mais il devrait vous aider à comprendre ce qu'il faut en attendre, sur le plan technique.
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    An introduction to electrical safety testing in accordance with IEC 62353 
    (Rigel Medical, 2015)
    This booklet is written as a guideline for people involved in testing medical electrical equipment (ME equipment. The aim of this booklet is to help the reader to appreciate the basics of electrical safety. Understand the reasons behind and the purpose of the IEC 62353 publication. Provide an understanding of the benefits of using the different tests available, in order to help them prepare the adoption of the IEC 62353 standard.This booklet cannot be considered as a replacement for the IEC 62353 publication, which can be purchased through the official IEC website, www.webstore.iec.ch.
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    An introduction to Electrosurgery
    (Rigel medical, 2013)
    This booklet is written as a guideline for people involved in testing electrosurgical generators. All reasonable care has been taken to ensure that the information, reference figures and data are accurate and have been taken from the latest versions of various standards, guidance notes and recognised “best practises” to establish the recommended testing requirements. Rigel Medical, their agents and distributors, accept no responsibility for any error or omissions within this booklet or for any misinterpretations by the user. For clarification on any part of this booklet please contact Rigel Medical before operating any test instrument.
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    An introduction to measuring and simulating Vital Signs
    (Rigel Medical, 2012)
    This booklet is written as a guideline for people involved in testing medical, electrical equipment. All reasonable care has been taken to ensure that the information, reference figures and data are accurate and have been taken from the latest versions of various standards, guidance notes and recognized “best practises” to establish the recommended testing requirements. Rigel Medical, their agents and distributors, accept no responsibility for any error or omissions within this booklet or for any misinter- pretations by the user. For clarification on any part of this booklet please contact Rigel Medical before operating any test instrument.