Roles of Clinical Engineering Technologists in Disaster Medicine of the Tokyo Metropolitan Area

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概要

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• Clinical Engineering Technologists (CETs), certified by the Japan health and welfare ministry, are experts for life support devices and also managers for the safety of medical equipments in hospitals. CETs performed important roles in Y2K problems, and have been expected as experts for risk management on medical equipments in hospitals. CFTs have to grapple with the problem of disaster medicine, which is a kind of risk management. Some members of Tokyo Association of Clinical Engineering Technologists (TACET) participated in the night experiment of a power failure in the whole building at Shirahigebashi hospital in Jan.1998, which was the first trial in Japan. Roles of CETs in the experiment are shown below. 1. Preparation for power supplies to medical equipments supporting patients. 2. Safety control for patients supported by life support devices, especially ventilators. 3. Check for operation of medical equipments and observation of power supply waveforms, while a private electric generator was in operation following a power failure in the whole building. TACET organized a disaster medicine committee after this experiment and started activity for disaster measures on medical equipments. At first, a member of TACET disaster medicine committee joined in Tokyo metropolitan disaster medicine committee and cooperated with it to make the general manual of disaster measures. And then, the members of TACET disaster medicine committee investigated roles of CETs in disaster medicine. Main roles are shown below. 1. Confirmation on installations of emergency power sources. 2. Confirmation on time limit of battery operation for medical equipments with battery. 3. Preparation for manual methods substituting for ordinary methods with electric power sources. 4. Participation in periodical inspections for electric facilities. 5. Confirmation on storage of medical gas cylinders. 6. Confirmation on water storage and water supply system. 7. Installation of medical equipments and facilities with protection against disasters. 8. Establishment of communication networks in disasters. It's important to make the manual of disaster measures, but it's also important to experience a power failure in disaster training. So, we will make the manual to carry out the disaster training safely.

• 日本医療機器学会の論文
• 2001-08-01

著者

• Ebine Kunio

  Dept.of Cardiovascular Surgery

• Kano Takashi

  Dept.of Medical Engineering Service, Mitsui Memorial Hospital

• Usui Hiroshi

  Dept.of Medical Engineering, National Hospital Tokyo Disaster Medical Center

• Sakai Motohiro

  Dept.of Clinical Engineering, Tokyo Police Hospital

• Haraguchi Yoshikura

  Dept.of Surgery, National Hospital Tokyo Disaster Medical Center

• Isihara Toru

  Director, Sirahigebashi Hospital

• Hospital Ohashi

  Toho University School of Medicine

• Sakai Motohiro

  Dept.of Clinical Engineering Tokyo Police Hospital

• Haraguchi Yoshikura

  Dept.of Surgery National Hospital Tokyo Disaster Medical Center

• Kano Takashi

  Dept.of Medical Engineering Service Mitsui Memorial Hospital

• Isihara Toru

  Director Sirahigebashi Hospital

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