Medical Device Reliability and Associated Areas

Although Reliability Engineering can trace its roots back to World War II its application to medical devices is relatively recent and its treatment in the published literature has been quite limited. With the medical device industry among the fastest growing segments of the US economy it is vital that the engineering biomedical manufacturing and design communities have up-to-date information on current developments tools and techniques.Medical Device Reliability and Associated Areas fills this need with broad yet detailed coverage of the field. It addresses a variety of topics related - directly and indirectly - to reliability including human error in health care systems and software quality assurance. With emphasis on concepts rather than mathematical rigor a multitude of examples exercises tables and references this is one resource that everyone connected to the medical device industry must have.