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Aug 31, 2024
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ELT 484 - Medical Electronics Systems Credits: 4 Lecture Hours: 4 Lab Hours: 0 Practicum Hours: 0 Work Experience: 0 Course Type: Voc/Tech This course trains the student in electrical safety testing and the repair, calibration and preventive maintenance of patient-monitoring equipment such as ECG, blood pressure, defibrillators, ICN, CCU central station monitoring systems and respiratory instrumentation. Included will be a self-paced study of medical terminology. Prerequisite: ELT 728 , PHY 160 Corequisite: ELT 485 Competencies
- Complete a self-paced study of medical terminology
- Submit homework on time
- Define medical terminology
- Incorporate medical terminology in Biomedical field
- Identify the major publications and organizations concerned with electrical safety
- Report on research of organizations concerning electrical safety
- Define the requirements for AAMI certifications examination
- Describe the local and state code requirements for electrical safety
- Explain how preventative maintenance can reduce electrical hazards
- Describe equipment inspections
- Describe inspection documentation
- Describe results of equipment inspections
- Evaluate electrical safety in the medical electronics field
- State the physiological effects of electricity on the human body
- Describe leakage current
- Explain line isolation monitors
- Discuss monitoring equipment design considerations for reducing electrical shock hazards
- Outline the use of electrical safety test equipment in electrical safety programs
- Evaluate basic patient monitoring equipment
- Explain the principles of operation of bioelectric amplifiers
- Outline the fundamentals of ECG recording and monitoring equipment
- Compare the various techniques used to measure physiological pressure
- Describe the operation of medical pressure monitors
- Evaluate life support equipment
- Explain the operation of Defibrillators
- Outline the calibration and maintenance of Defibrillation
- Explain the operation of various types of pacemakers
- Describe the equipment used to measure pulmonary function
- Review the operation and maintenance of Ventilators
- Define general electronic considerations
- Describe typical medical electronic signals
- Compare the types of electrodes
- Understand general noise considerations
- Identify electrocardiography equipment and uses
- Discuss the anatomy involved
- Understand electrophysiology
- Define the uses in pathology
- Explain laboratory medical systems and devices
- Describe spectrophotometry
- Describe fluorometry
- Define mass spectroscopy
- Outline the types of automated clinical systems
- Characterize the various medical imaging devices
- Describe standard X-ray equipment
- Depict thermography
- Discuss ultrasound devices
- Describe CT scanning
- Explain MRI equipment use
- Incorporate Web Based information
- Understand the uses of search engines
- Determine vendor specific websites for biomedical equipment
- Incorporate vendor information to update biomedical equipment
- Recognize proper technical content
- Understand the techniques and concepts of calibration
- Define the accepted practices of calibration
- Describe the regulatory requirements of calibration
- Explain the legal aspects and liabilities of proper calibration
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