The IEC website, particularly the committe dashboar, have been updated. Tha dashboard now has links for documents opens for vote (open) e voting statistics (closed) - see 62A example. I really liked theopen for votes link. For a standards geek like me it surely makes life easier.

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A great tip from Rich Nute of the PSES newsletter fame: http://std.iec.ch/glossary . To find medical electrical equipment terms, search by TC/SC, check “TC and alls its SCs”, select “62″ in the drop-down menu click OK!

I´ve seen this site some years ago but it didn´t have all the terms it has now. I don´t even know if it has all the terms from TC 62 (there´s a document with all the terms, IEC/TR 60788:2004 - Medical electrical equipment - Glossary of defined terms, but they´re out of date, and the site has terms from 2006). If the ideia is to have them online and for free, congratulations IEC!

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The second edition of IEC 60601-1-6, the collateral standard for usability (or human factors), has been published by IEC in December, 2006. It´s the second standard aligned with the third edition of the general standard IEC 60601-1 to be published. It has no technical differences related to the old edition, the changes were just from a editorial standpoint (clause numbers in the new editions are diferent). Now all that´s left is IEC 60601-1-2 on EMC, which is already on FDIS and should be published on the first semester of 2007 (problably on the first trimester).

Some general information about this standard can be found on this paper published in MDDI: Understanding Usability Standards for Medical Devices.

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A lot of medical devices have fuses for protection of short-circuit (they´re used for other things to, but more on this another day). But how to declare (in the markings and in the accompanying docs) the characteristics of the fuses of your equipment?

 
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