Following the CEN academy study days in December featuring Critical Care Ventilation (Thank you Cardinal Health for your Support) , the next events are planned to start early in the New Year, again Critical Care Ventilation is likely to feature and Anaesthesia Delivery and Ventilation with Diagnostic Imaging especially X Ray, also included will be Medical Eqipment Management with a good look at some cutting edge technical support and client focused software packages.

Those interestred in attending or contributing :-

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Q. What is a Clinical Engineer ?

A. Clinical (means the same medical) Engineers are engineers that are involved in the delivery of healthcare and medicine accross all disciplines, sometimes called medical or biomedical engineers, medical electronics or healthcare engineers.Areas of activity include medical equipment management, equipment and device maintenance and repair and healthcare infrastructure engineering.

A2. A person with engineering training and skills emloyed in a clinical environment

Q. How are Clinical Engineers involved in medicine ?

Without engineers involvement in it is certain that medicine would not have developed into the leading edge technolgy of today, they are involved ofen in the idea, conception, design, manufacture, commissioning, training, use, modification, maintenance, calibration, repair and decommissioning of medical devices and thats just before lunch.....

Q. What especially do you love about your job ?

A. Mainly all of it but especially the satisfaction of fixing something that is needed then used to save a life.

A2. Theres not much not to love, the pay and pension are both very good, the works interesting and a challenge, Im pretty much my own boss,  the Nurses are lovely and you know what, its not cold indoors, what more do you want !

Q. What do you hate about your job ?

A. Hate is too strong, I dislike the odd thing, the odd person winds me up but nothing to mention

A2. I refuse to answer in case he reads this.

Q. Who are the people you work with ?

A. Doctors, Nurses, Physios, Clinicians, Cleaners, everybody including other Medical Engineers.

A2. All the above and patients too

Q. What do you think of the CEN Student/Mentor Network and Study Days ?

A. Exactly what it says on the tin, usually experienced engineers helping less experienced ones or students

A2. Look, if it is organised help or study events, in my experiece, it always helps, sometimes it even inspires and that is never a bad thing in my books

Q. How much money do you earn ?

A. All my wife can spend, not a penny more !

A2. Bit nosey arent you ?, about 40k/year

Q. Merc or BMW ?

A1 BMW

A2 Audi

Q. What do you drive ?

A1. BMW 3 2.5 SEi (old for work) M5 limited edition, very scary (not so old but at 13mpg in sport and M Mode, hardly used)

A2. Everybody, round the bend

Q. Mcdonalds or Burger King ?

A1. Pass

A2. Mcdonalds, only breakfast though.

Q. Indian or Chinese ?

A1. Chinese

A2. Clinical Engineers code is to love all ladies, regardless of origin

At CEN school presentations the response by teachers has been remarkable, most state quite passionately that Clinical Engineering encapsulates perfectly the relationship between science and engineering, the need to communicate and calculate (maths and english boys and girls) with so many examples. The fact that we may have inspired a student or helped a teacher gives us a real buzz, long may it continue, thanks to all involved.

The Clinical Engineering Network is a not for profit collective open to all but especially aimed at those involved with or those that share an interest in Healthcare Engineering, Medicine and Science.

We plan to remain education and training focused and to this end, many of our members contribute significantly to this community and the community at large.

This site therefore is not limited to the expert or novice, the student or academic, it is for everybody, we aim simply to enhance our activity and understanding through the development of partnership and sharing our resources, abilities and talent.

Whoever you are,whatever your differences, we will treat you with dignity and respect, all we ask is that you treat each other and us the same

We have set ourselves some blue sky targets this year, we aim this to deliver much more this year if we can. With your help and that of our site supporters, there are no limits............

Just how did it all start I hear you say, no you fools not CEN, everything, everthing, Yes everything, occasionally we find a really good link worthy of our front page, have a read of this explanation you can understand of the big bang and the expansion of the universe.

Medical Physics, Cosmology Physics, all the same really just different  bodies LOL !

Heres a few Links, enjoy and let us know what you think DM 

http://www4.ncsu.edu/unity/lockers/users/f/felder/public/kenny/papers/cosmo.html

And another

http://hubblesite.org/explore_astronomy/

And another, super entertaiment have a look

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-3834632996973653146

Good one here

http://butler.cc.tut.fi/~malmivuo/bem/bembook/

After a catch up and only breif discussions with Keith Feay today, see http://www.keithfeay.co.uk/ , we at CEN agreed to throw our full support behind a X-Ray charity which is now active in providing imaging equipment and technical support to less fortunate, deserving and developing countries

I have known Keith for many years since he was a regional NHS engineer in the Manchester area and I was then a young engineer freshly demobbed from the Royal Air Force and installing X-Ray equipment throughout the North West like it was going out of fashion.

Keith is a top guy and is always willing to help anyone who needs it, highly respected and professional, he nears retirement after working from the age of 15, he really seems fired up with this charity work and we will do everything we can to help him for sure.      

Our site is freely used for EBME recruitment / job advertising and vacancy and available for work notification purposes.

At Global Network we are delighted that NHS web gateway traffic increases as networks become more stable and established. We are also seeing an increase in traffic from hospitals in Europe especially Ireland and Education Organisations including those from the USA.

AT GNP WE CARE    We administer social injustice and awareness websites too,  income gained from our activities returns to our target communities with interest, hopefully plenty of interest, WE HAVE NO INTENTION OF TAKING OURSELVES TOO SERIOUSLY , this we know is best left to others !!!