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from our president's desk T AST YEAR the Sanborn Company built four surgical The equipment supplied by Sanborn worked very well L monitoring systems for the National Institutes of Health and the operating team seemed highly pleased with it. In in Bethesda, Maryland. A few weeks ago I had the watching such a delicate operation, one had the feeling' that opportunity to see one of these complex systems in use during the life of the patient depended not only on the skill of the open-heart surgery. I was most impressed with the operation surgeon but also on the proper working of this complex itself, which involved the replacement of a defective valve electronic instrumentation. In a very real sense, then, when inside the heart with an artificial mechanical valve. It is one we supply our equipment for vital jobs such as these, a great of the most delicate and difficult operations ever attempted. deal is at stake and quality becomes an all-important factor. The equipment must be designed so it is capable of making While the operating team prepared the patient and made a number of critical measurements with utmost speed and the initial incisions to expose the heart, we discussed the accuracy. Moreover, it must be reliable. One defective part, Sanborn equipment with the chief surgeon. He explained one loose wire, or one poorly soldered joint could seriously how the equipment is used and what is expected of it in the affect the outcome of the operation. way of performance. The kind of quality and reliability required in a system The monitoring system performs two important functions. such as this must be built in by each workman at each stage It acquires and instantaneously displays information on of manufacture. Quality and reliability cannot be inspected heart rate, blood pressures, temperatures, heart output, and in later. A large portion of the instruments we make are used other vital data which the surgeon needs during the oper- in highly critical applications where not only vast sums of ation. Some of the information is displayed in numerical money are dependent upon the proper functioning of our form on a large panel in front of the surgeon. Other data equipment, but the lives of people as well. is displayed in waveforms on the screen of a large cathode If each of you could have seen this operation at NIH I am ray tube. As the operation progressed, we noticed how the sure you would have recognized,