Ben-Zvi S, Gottlieb W
J Clin Eng. 1979 Apr-Jun;4(2):135-45. doi: 10.1097/00004669-197904000-00008.
A current major concern of the medical community is the incidence of nosocomial, or hospital-related infection. One of the chief ways a patient may get a nosocomial infection is through medical instrumentation which has been improperly sterilized or incorrectly utilized. The clinical engineer, because of his critical involvement with medical instrumentation, must, in addition to his conventional duties, instruct hospital personnel in the proper sterilization and use of medical instrumentation. In order to accomplish this, the clinical engineer must understand the relationship between nosocomial infection and medical instrumentation, and he must become familiar with basic sterilization procedures as they apply to each class of medical instrumentation.
医疗界当前主要关注的问题是医院感染，即与医院相关的感染的发生率。患者感染医院感染的主要途径之一是通过未正确消毒或使用不当的医疗设备。临床工程师由于深度参与医疗设备相关工作，除了履行常规职责外，还必须指导医院工作人员正确消毒和使用医疗设备。为了做到这一点，临床工程师必须了解医院感染与医疗设备之间的关系，并且必须熟悉适用于各类医疗设备的基本消毒程序。
