MEDICAL DEVICES

Implications of MEIGaN on the Use of Medical Devices



Implications of MEIGaN on the Use of Medical Devices

Introduction

Medical Electrical Installation Guidance (MEIGaN) tends to be issued in the year 2005 by the United Kingdom's Medicines and Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency (MHRA). It tends to cater to the steps which ensures the safety of those machines or devices which directly or indirectly relates to the medical treatment of a person. It also encompasses that machine which stands to be used in radiotherapy rooms or for diagnostic imaging. The Guidance specifically caters to newly built rooms or even refurbished rooms. It also tends to target moveable rooms either used for treatment purposes, or diagnostic purposes. It drives the recommendations for electrical supplies relating to earthing and other such processes. It intends to deal with those medical devices which are eternally in place. This guidance intends to bring many changes, which deals with, the use of Medical devices, which are analyzed, further in the course of this paper.

Implications

Medical Electrical Installation Guidance (MEIGaN) tends to gratify the employees which in some manner are allowed to use the medical equipment to serve the purpose ranging from medical exposure to ionizing radiation under a qualified authority. This includes healthcare providers irrespective of the fact that whether they are in private practice or operates in the public sphere. Those health care providers include X-Ray Services, Dentists physiotherapists, Osteopaths and chiropractors and etc. This guidance tends to secure the use of any such devices which could lead to a fatal accident (www.hse.gov.uk). It also tends to stress on earthing and likewise procedures to eradicate any possibility of any accident.

This Guidance tends to address the areas which deal with the Selection of the equipment; it argues that for medical equipment to be purchased it needs ...