Date: 6-Aug-2020
Among the issues highlighted by the speaker were medical equipment management during Covid-19 - how to tackle shortage issues and possible reuse of the supplies, the importance of infection control and prevention practices. A the saying goes there are two sides of the same coin, the pandemic has opened the horizon for biomedical engineers to explore new ideas and design such as low-cost emergency ventilators, isolation room design, HVAC system design, reprocessing and decontamination of PPE with plasma technology, and etc. In the second part of the webinar, the speaker shared his ideas of Top 10 health technology hazards for 2020 - potential patient safety issues and how biomedical engineers can play a role to address them.
