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Terminated in academic year 2020/2021

Medical Electronic Instruments I

Type of study Bachelor
Language of instruction English
Code 450-2007/02
Abbreviation ZEP1
Course title Medical Electronic Instruments I
Credits 5
Coordinating department Department of Cybernetics and Biomedical Engineering
Course coordinator prof. Ing. Marek Penhaker, Ph.D.

Subject syllabus

Lectures
Biological signal introduction. Description and parameters of biosignals. Fundamental terms, impedance symptom of tissue and organ activity organ, their utilization in diagnostics, organs electrical activity.
Medical department Heart electrotherapy, cardiac pacemaker, defibrillation. Types, electrodes, mode and application. Blood pressure measuring instruments. Basement of blood circulation, noninvasive measurement of blood pressure, pressure sensors, invasive methods.
Medical department - intensive care part – monitor systems, Monitoring. Fundamental knowledge, surgery, surgical, coronary and obstetric ward.
Medical department - Hemodialysis. Technique for hem dialysis.
Neurology - Neurological diagnostics instruments, Basic instruments requirements and parameters, EEG, EMG, EGG
Gynekology technology of ultrasound, biological interference, kavitation, acoustic values, physical therapy. cryosurgery.
Tissue department – laser technology, characteristics of radiation, fundamental types of laser, Incidence of laser ray on to biological tissue.
Medical rehabilitation - Instruments for rehabilitation and physiotherapy, ionosphere, function generator, magneto scope, pharmacology.
Anestesy and resuscitation part - Anesthesia and ventilator instruments, incubation apparatus. Ventilating technique. Equipement for ventilating instruments.
Surgical and traumatology units - Supplementary instruments for surgical branch. Fixation
Central surgical halls - Surgical and surgical technology: Surgical tools and apparatus, arrangement for extra-corporeal circulation, cryosurgery and technology boast undulation
Central sterilization. Sterilizer technique: Introduction to the epidemiology, sterilization, disinfection, type of sterilization. Germicides Lamp
Information and monitoring centr of hospital – Energy sources and rescue plans, medical gases, air conditioning.
Hygiene station – epidemiology – egrometry workplaces as stressor monitoring.

Excercises
Diagnistics , therapeutics and laboratory instrument dividing and classification.
Medical department Heart electrotherapy, cardiac pacemaker, defibrillation. Types, electrodes, mode and application. Blood pressure measuring instruments. Basement of blood circulation, noninvasive measurement of blood pressure, pressure sensors, invasive methods.
Medical department - intensive care part – monitor systems, Monitoring. Fundamental knowledge, surgery, surgical, coronary and obstetric ward.
Medical department - Hemodialysis. Technique for hem dialysis.
Neurology - EEG, EMG, EGG
Gynekology technology of ultrasound, biological interference, kavitation, acoustic values, physical therapy. cryosurgery. Aminoskop, laparoscopy.
Tissue department –Laser technology.
Medical rehabilitation - Instruments for rehabilitation and physiotherapy, ionosphere, function generator, magneto scope, pharmacology.
Anestesy and resuscitation part - Anesthesia and ventilator instruments, incubation apparatus. Ventilating technique. Equipement for ventilating instruments. , isobaric chamber, bronchoscopy.
Surgical and traumatology units - Supplementary instruments for surgical branch. Fixation technology.
Central surgical halls - Surgical tools and apparatus, arrangement for extra-corporeal circulation
Excursion to central sterilization. Sterilizer technique: Introduction to the epidemiology, sterilization, disinfection, type of sterilization. Germicides Lamp
Excursion to information and monitoring centr of hospital – Energy sources and rescue plans, medical gases, air conditioning.
Hygiene station – epidemiology – egrometry workplaces as stressor monitoring.

Projects: Each student gets awarded throughout the semester one larger project that works with the use of measuring and computing.
Creating a separate project no. 1. Design and implementation of a system for measuring and evaluating data from medical medical device.

Literature

Webster, John G.: Medical instrumentation : application and design, Hoboken (USA): Wiley, 1998. ISBN 0-471-15368-0
Perez, R.: Design of medical electronic devices San Diego (USA): Academic press, 2002. ISBN 0-12-550711-9
Carr, Joseph J., Brown, John M. Introduction to biomedical equipment technology 4th.Edition Upper Saddle River (USA): Prentice Hall, , 2001. ISBN 0-13-010492-2
Mackay, Stuart R.: Bio-medical telemetry : sensing and transmitting biological information from animals and man 2nd Edition, New York (USA): IEEE Press, , 1993. ISBN 0-7803-4718-8
Dyro, J.F: Clinical Engineering Handbook, Academic Press ,August 27, 2004, ISBN: 012226570X

Advised literature

Bronzino J.D. et al.: The biomedical engineering handbook. CRC Press, Boca Raton, 1995.