Medical Devices and Professional Skills module (ME42001)

This module is designed to give the student a broad view of understanding of the medical engineering industry and applications in healthcare system. The aims are:

• To provide a formal training on medical instrumentation applications and design, medical ethics and safety issues.
• To provide an grounding in the theory of biomedical measurement systems, including sensors, signal conditioning methods, measurement techniques, patient interfacing and instrumentation used in biomedicine.
• To impart the fundamentals of the special aspects of instrumentation design that are required for biomedical instruments.
• To demonstrate how modern biomedical instruments combine traditional instrumentation techniques and technological innovation, including software presentation and analysis of data.
• To provide training related to the legislative and professional framework that governs medical instruments together with associated managerial, professional and inter-professional issues encountered in clinical practice. The resulting framework of knowledge and skills supports safe and equitable practice.

Core contents includes:

1. basic concepts and principles of medical instrumentation used in physiological measurement
2. basic concepts and principles of medical imaging instrumentation, static and dynamic characteristics of measurement systems, noise and noise reduction
3. measurement constraints in the clinical environment, invasive and non-invasive measurements and medical imaging
4. biomedical and chemical biosensors
5. measurement of blood pressure, blood flow and blood volume, pulse oximetry and respiratory performance
6. clinical laboratory instrumentation and applications in patient monitoring
7. protection and safety: medical ethics, general safety, electrical safety, biological hazards, chemical safety, radiation protection