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Here is a new and analytical approach to chemical plant safety-encompassing design, construction, and operation to reduce the likelihood of hazardous incidents as well as actions to mitigate their consequences should they still occur.The most significant safety issues are addressed both from the viewpoint of the fundamental phenomena and the perspective of plant design.Many of the phenomena covered are outside the scope of the normal chemical engineering curriculae; examples include compressible multiphase flow, deflagrations and detonations, turbulent dispersion, thermochemical characterization methods for material decomposition and reactions.In the plant design area, topics of importance include built in redundancy of equipment, and minimization of inventory of hazardous materials.The combination of the fundamental and applied aspects makes this book a unique and useful one for both the academic and industrial sectors. ... Read more

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This volume is produced from digital images created through the University of Michigan University Library's large-scale digitization efforts. The Library seeks to preserve the intellectual content of items in a manner that facilitates and promotes a variety of uses. The digital reformatting process results in an electronic version of the original text that can be both accessed online and used to create new print copies. The Library also understands and values the usefulness of print and makes reprints available to the public whenever possible. This book and hundreds of thousands of others can be found in the HathiTrust, an archive of the digitized collections of many great research libraries. For access to the University of Michigan Library's digital collections, please see http://www.lib.umich.edu and for information about the HathiTrust, please visit http://www.hathitrust.org ... Read more

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This book calls upon the author's fifty-plus years of experience researching human factors engineering, and provides a wealth of information on the real world of machines, consumer products and operational environments. ... Read more

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Traditionally society has regulated hazardous industries by detailed references to engineering codes, standards and hardware requirements.These days a risk-based approach is adopted.Risk analysis involves identifying hazards, categorizing the risks, and providing the necessary decision support to determine the necessary arrangements and measures to reach a "safe" yet economical operating level. When adopting such an approach the abundance of techniques available to express risk levels can often prove confusing and inadequate.This highly practical guide to safety and risk analysis in Marine Systems not only adds to the current techniques available, but more importantly identifies instances where traditional techniques fall short. Uncertainties that manifest within risk analysis are highlighted and alternative solutions presented.In addition to risk analysis techniques this book addresses influencing elements including: reliability, Maintenance Decision making and Human error. The highly practical approach of this title ensures it is accessible to the widest possible audience

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This is an EXACT reproduction of a book published before 1923. This IS NOT an OCR'd book with strange characters, introduced typographical errors, and jumbled words.This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide. We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book. ... Read more

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This is a convenient, one-volume reference that provides process engineers with quick information on the major equipment, processes and materials used in chemical, food, water/wastewater, fuel and other types of process engineering. The data is presented in short articles, supplemented and illustrated by tables, diagrams, charts and formulas. The data is organized in twenty short chapters with a detailed index for easy reference. Much of the data is economically presented in tables. ... Read more

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This is an EXACT reproduction of a book published before 1923. This IS NOT an OCR'd book with strange characters, introduced typographical errors, and jumbled words.This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide. We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book. ... Read more

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Engineering for Patient Safety: Issues in Minimally Invasive Procedures is a brief study of how human factors engineers have worked with medical personnel to improve patient safety and reduce medical error in the newest minimally invasive surgical procedures. In traditional surgery, surgeons had the advantages of three-dimensional vision and hands-on feedback as a result of direct contact with instruments and tissue. While the new surgical techniques have cost benefits and generally reduce patient trauma and recovery time, a whole new cast of potential problems has been introduced and there are greater risks of medical error.

This book features:
*an explanation of new technologies to improve minimally invasive procedures, starting with task analysis, problem assessment, instrument design, and evaluation of the new technologies;
*examples from laparoscopy, arthroscopy, virtual colonoscopy, and cardiovascular catheter interventions; and
*future projects and research fields.

This study is of interest to human factors researchers who focus on health care, designers and manufacturers of medical equipment, and  surgeons and technicians. ... Read more

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Good for laparoscopic instrument ergonomic review
Do not be confused of the book name. This book is not talking about the surgical device safety. It is a literature review of minimally Invasive surgical (MIS) device design problems. I borrow this book from library. After reading some chapter, I go to bookstore to figure it later, and give up the ideas of writing teaching materials. I also discard the papers and notes I collected, just keeping those not mentioned in this book.

A brief introduction can be found on Paul H. King, Engineering in Medicine and Biology Magazine, IEEE. 2006;25(1):14. You also can find some page through Google.

The text consists of 12 chapters. Chapter 1 and 12 is a introduction to MIS device design and training. Chapter 2 discuss about surgical procedure task analysis.

Chapter 3 "Observation and Manipulation in Laparoscopic Surgery", and Chapter 4 "Eye-Hand Coordination in Laparoscopy" cover the visual impendence, mis-location and misorientation. The interaction of device tip motion with the monitor height and position is demostrated clearly. You will not miss in the jargons of color science, visual theory. Though the authors discribed clear of fleible wrist of DaVinci system (US Patent No.5,797,900,1998)in chapter 3, the key image patent (US Patent No.7,397,934,2008): "Registration of Thoracic and Abdominal Imaging Modalities" is not see then.

chapter 5 "Force Transmission of Laparoscopic Graspers", Chapter 6 "Safe Manipulation of Bowel Tissue", and Chapter 7 "Design and Evaluation of Endoscope Positioners" review the device ergonomic problems. It discuss about how the force transmission from your hand to the grasp tip, the laparoscopic instrument sensation of surgeon, and the jaw design demage factor on bowel.

Chapter 3-7 is enough for bed-side teaching. You need not waste time of data mining in EI, SCI papers.

In chapter 9, the authors did not mentioned about Osirix TM (Mac software). It is the best free software for virtual colonscopy, and frendly in bed-side teaching.

I have no comment of chapter 8 discuss arthroscopy, and chapter 10,11 discuss catheters, because I am not a orthologist or cardiovascular surgeon.

The authors skip about the surgeon's muscle fatigue problems, including handle design, surgical table height, EMG and 3D-motion analysis. The direct energy source device is also not mentioned. But you can find excellent review through Pubmed.

Conclusion, If you are a laparoscopic surgeon, and not interested in bioengineering. Or if you are a bioengineering new investigating in laparoscopic device design. This is a book for you. But Please keep in mind that not talk this to PGY or junior residents they have no laparoscopic surgery experience. Or you will see innocent eyes only. ... Read more

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State-of-the-art in science & engineering aspects of rock mechanics in the areas of safety & environmental protection. Discusses various aspects concerning modelling in safety analysis, stability of underground structures, and the contribution of incident and accident cases to the progress of rock engineering activities. The influence of the environment is also considered, namely in heat & mass transport, contaminant migration, and underground storage of waste & products. ... Read more

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This is an EXACT reproduction of a book published before 1923. This IS NOT an OCR'd book with strange characters, introduced typographical errors, and jumbled words.This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide. We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book. ... Read more

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Safety & Security Engineering, due to its special nature, represents an interdisciplinary area of research and applications that brings together, in a systemic view, many disciplines of engineering, from the most traditional to the most advanced and novel. Safety &Security Engineering is characterized by a totally new approach since it first analyzes the hazard context not only by means of traditional tools but also by means of risk analysis techniques and then manage the above mentioned context through technical solutions, installations, systems, human resources and procedures to prevent and face incidental events, natural and voluntary, that could damage people or goods. This volume contains papers presented at the Third International Conference on the Safety and Security Engineering, covering the following topics: Infrastructure Protection; Risk Analysis, Assessment and Management; Public Safety and Security; Homeland Security; Surveillance Systems; Injury Prevention; Safety Culture; Emergency and Disaster Management; Modelling and Theoretical Studies; Earthquakes; Transportation Problems; Geotechnical Problems; Railway Safety. ... Read more

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This volume contains a selection of papers from the "Railtech 1996" event dealing with railway engineering, systems and safety. The topics covered include platform edge doors, factors influencing derailment risk and automatic train protection and the operational railway. ... Read more