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| Domain | Definition |
Occupations | Repairs, calibrates, and maintains medical equipment and instrumentation used in health-care delivery field: Inspects and installs medical and related technical equipment in medical and research facilities for use by physicians, nurses, scientists, or engineers involved in researching, monitoring, diagnosing, and treating physical ailments or dysfunctions. Services various equipment and apparatus, such as patient monitors, electrocardiographs, blood-gas analyzers, x-ray units, defibrillators, electrosurgical units, anesthesia apparatus, pacemakers, blood-pressure transducers, spirometers, sterilizers, diathermy equipment, in-house television systems, patient-care computers, and other related technical paraphernalia. Repairs, calibrates, and maintains equipment, using handtools, power tools, measuring devices, and knowledge of manufacturers' manuals, troubleshooting techniques, and preventive-maintenance schedules. Safety-tests medical equipment and health-care facility's structural environment to ensure patient and staff safety from electrical or mechanical hazards. Consults with medical or research staff to ascertain that equipment functions properly and safely, utilizing knowledge of electronics, medical terminology, human anatomy and physiology, chemistry, and physics. May demonstrate and explain correct operation of equipment to medical personnel. May modify or develop instruments or devices, under supervision of medical or engineering staff. May work as salesperson or service technician for equipment manufacturers or their sales representatives. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
biomedical equipment technician | 20 |
biomedical equipment technician job | 11 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)42 49 4F 4D 45 44 49 43 41 4C 45 51 55 49 50 4D 45 4E 54 54 45 43 48 4E 49 43 49 41 4E |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000010 01001001 01001111 01001101 01000101 01000100 01001001 01000011 01000001 01001100 00100000 01000101 01010001 01010101 01001001 01010000 01001101 01000101 01001110 01010100 00100000 01010100 01000101 01000011 01001000 01001110 01001001 01000011 01001001 01000001 01001110 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)B I O M E D I C A L   E Q U I P M E N T   T E C H N I C I A N |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0042 0049 004F 004D 0045 0044 0049 0043 0041 004C 0045 0051 0055 0049 0050 004D 0045 004E 0054 0054 0045 0043 0048 004E 0049 0043 0049 0041 004E |
Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)364349473938433735462395155435047394854254393742484337433548 |
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