Murat Firat, MSc, CCE, Manager, Biomedical Engineering, Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre
Bill Gentles, PhD, CCE, Vice President, BT Medical Technology Consulting
Sarah Kelso, M.Sc., P.Eng., Regional Clinical Engineer | Clinical Engineering, Winnipeg Regional Health Authority
This webinar will deal with the regulatory, ethical, and practical issues around donating used medical devices to low resource countries.
A CMBES video that covers best practices will be shown.
A newly released CMBES guidance document on Medical Equipment Donations will be summarized.
The CESO initiative to facilitate medical equipment donations will be discussed.
During the webinar, the audience will be asked to respond to poll questions relating to their experience with equipment donations.
a) Send to garbage/landfill
b) Sell for human use
c) Sell for parts
d) Donation for educational use (nursing or Biomed technology college programs)
e) Donation for developing countries
f) Donation for non-human use (to research, veterinarians or zoo)
Here is the link to register for the Webinar:
https://us06web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_ZZ9-FHpiStKwoCTUVimx2Q
-- Bill Gentles, PhD., P.Eng., CCE, President, CESO