📢 "IEC 80601-2-23: TRANSCUTANEOUS MONITORING" OUT FOR VOTE
I’m proud to announce that the technical standard “IEC 80601-2-23: transcutaneous monitoring of O2 and CO2” has been circulated for voting to the national committees as a committee draft.
This has been done under my supervision as a project leader at IEC with kind support from Lundbeckfonden / Lundbeck Foundation at my research group NaBIS DTU and my national committee Danish Standard.
This standard ensures safety of transcutaneous (TC) monitoring which was co-invented by Danish-based Radiometer in the 1970s. Prior to this, there was a risk of damaging the retina when premature children were put on supplemental oxygen. The world-famous musician Stevie Wonder was born 6 weeks prematurely in 1950 and lost his sight in an oxygen-rich incubator (https://lnkd.in/dCt5ZqaE). Since the 1970s transcutaneous monitoring has dramatically diminished the occurrence of retinopathy of prematurity - in addition it has contributed to the Danish society and GDP for more than 4 decades.
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Thanks to the experts contributing to IEC 80601-2-23 (62D/2133/CDV), especially Yaqing Liu (Intertek), Peter Schumacher (SenTec AG), Rasmus Bunkenborg (Radiometer Medical), Ladan Bulookbashi (IEC), Dave Osborn (ISO), Marika Vindbjerg (Danish Standards)
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