This chapter focuses on the various definitions, challenges, and approaches to BAN safety. Standard ISO 60601, a standard for medical devices, defines safety as the avoidance of unacceptable risks of hazards to the physical environment (i.e., to the patient) due to the operation of a medical device under normal or single-fault condition. Although this definition is akin to that for medical devices, it can be generally applicable to BANs as well, which are essentially networks of such devices. The standard further lists seven aspects of safety as follows.
Authors: Sandeep Gupta, Tridib Mukherjee, Krishna Kumar Venkatasubramanian
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/cbo9781139108126.006
Publish Year: 2013
