This book is a practical guide for individuals responsible for creating products that are safe, effective, usable, and satisfying in the hands of the intended users. The contents are intended to reduce the number of use errors involving medical devices that have led to injuries and deaths. The book presents the strong connection between user interface requirements and risk management for medical devices and instructs readers how to develop specific requirements that are sufficiently comprehensive and detailed to produce good results - a user-friendly product that is likely to be used correctly. The book's tutorial content is complemented by many real-world examples of user interface requirements, including ones pertaining to an inhaler, automated external defibrillator, medical robot, and mobile app that a patient might use to manage her diabetes. The book is intended for people representing a variety of product development disciplines who have responsibility for producing safe, effective, usable, and satisfying medical devices, including those who are studying or working in human factors engineering, psychology, mechanical engineering, biomedical engineering, systems engineering, software programming, technical writing, industrial design, graphic design, and regulatory affairs.

This book is a practical guide for individuals responsible for creating products that are safe, effective, usable, and satisfying in the hands of the intended users. The contents are intended to reduce the number of use errors involving medical devices that have led to injuries and deaths. The book presents the strong connection between user interface requirements and risk management for medical devices and instructs readers how to develop specific requirements that are sufficiently comprehensive and detailed to produce good results - a user-friendly product that is likely to be used correctly. The book's tutorial content is complemented by many real-world examples of user interface requirements, including ones pertaining to an inhaler, automated external defibrillator, medical robot, and mobile app that a patient might use to manage her diabetes. The book is intended for people representing a variety of product development disciplines who have responsibility for producing safe, effective, usable, and satisfying medical devices, including those who are studying or working in human factors engineering, psychology, mechanical engineering, biomedical engineering, systems engineering, software programming, technical writing, industrial design, graphic design, and regulatory affairs.

Medical Device Use Error: Root Cause Analysis offers practical guidance on how to methodically discover and explain the root cause of a use error-a mistake-that occurs when someone uses a medical device. Covering medical devices used in the home and those used in clinical environments, the book presents informative case studies about the use errors (mistakes) that people make when using a medical device, the potential consequences, and design-based preventions. Using clear illustrations and simple narrative explanations, the text: Covers the fundamentals and language of root cause analysis and regulators' expectations regarding the thorough analysis of use errors Describes how to identify use errors, interview users about use errors, and fix user interface design flaws that could induce use errors Reinforces the application of best practices in human factors engineering, including conducting both formative and summative usability tests Medical Device Use Error: Root Cause Analysis delineates a systematic method of analyzing medical device use errors. The book provides a valuable reference to human factors specialists, product development professionals, and others committed to making medical devices as safe and effective as possible.

This fascinating book is how Cat Erin Davis quit smoking cigarettes after thirty-eight years of being addicted to them. It takes you on a spiritual path while you transform into a nonsmoker. She shares with you a way that can completely change your life. Once and for all, you too will feel like and be a nonsmoker. Included is a forty-eight-day workbook guide, along with tips for your first year. What we seek, will seek us. Cat says, If I did it, then so can you. Cat has been on a lifelong path with ascended masters, Jesus, and angels. Through Spirit and teachings from archangels, she has been guided to write and share her knowledge with others. She has deep compassion for animals and nature, and she seeks to guide people to love and respect themselves, as well as others. This book also helps those who have already quit smoking to avoid nicotine urges.

This fascinating book is how Cat Erin Davis quit smoking cigarettes after thirty-eight years of being addicted to them. It takes you on a spiritual path while you transform into a nonsmoker. She shares with you a way that can completely change your life. Once and for all, you too will feel like and be a nonsmoker. Included is a forty-eight-day workbook guide, along with tips for your first year. What we seek, will seek us. Cat says, "If I did it, then so can you." Cat has been on a lifelong path with ascended masters, Jesus, and angels. Through Spirit and teachings from archangels, she has been guided to write and share her knowledge with others. She has deep compassion for animals and nature, and she seeks to guide people to love and respect themselves, as well as others. This book also helps those who have already quit smoking to avoid nicotine urges.