O'Dea T J
University of Minnesota Hospital and Clinical, Minneapolis 55455, USA.
J Clin Eng. 1996 Nov-Dec;21(6):466-82.
While the discipline of clinical engineering has long been limited to the area of medical equipment management, few areas in hospital engineering practice so closely meet the literal definition of "clinical" engineering as the care of the immunocompromised patient. Although ventilation has been the domain of the plant maintenance department, the increasing numbers of clinical engineers being given responsibility for plant functions, as well as the critical nature of the topic, make the care of the bone marrow transplant (BMT) patient an appropriate area of clinical engineering practice. Further, as clinical engineering branches out of the equipment management area, the clinical engineer can be truly termed the "hospital engineer".
虽然临床工程学科长期以来一直局限于医疗设备管理领域，但在医院工程实践中，很少有领域像对免疫功能低下患者的护理那样，如此紧密地符合“临床”工程的字面定义。尽管通风一直是工厂维护部门的工作范畴，但越来越多的临床工程师开始负责工厂功能，而且该主题至关重要，这使得对骨髓移植（BMT）患者的护理成为临床工程实践的一个合适领域。此外，随着临床工程从设备管理领域拓展，临床工程师可真正被称为“医院工程师”。
