Medical device technologies : a systems based overview using engineering standards

The goal of this textbook is to provide undergraduate engineering students with an introduction to commonly manufactured medical devices. It is the first textbook that discusses both electrical and mechanical medical devices. The first 20 chapters are medical device technology chapters; the remainin...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author Baura, Gail D.
Format Electronic eBook
LanguageEnglish
Published Amsterdam ; Boston : Elsevier/Academic Press, ©2012.
SeriesAcademic Press series in biomedical engineering.
Subjects
Online AccessFull text
ISBN9780080961125
0080961126
9780123749765
012374976X
Physical Description1 online resource (xv, 512 pages) : illustrations.

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Table of Contents:
  • Front Cover; Medical Device Technologies: A Systems Based Overview Using Engineering Standards; Copyright Page; Contents; Preface; About the Author; Nomenclature; I: MEDICAL DEVICES; 1. Diagnosis and Therapy; 2. Electrocardiographs; 3. Pacemakers; 4. External Defibrillators; 5. Implantable Cardioverter Defibrillators; 6. Heart Valves; 7. Blood Pressure Monitors; 8. Catheters, Bare Metal Stents, and Synthetic Grafts; 9. Hemodialysis Delivery Systems; 10. Mechanical Ventilators; 11. Pulse Oximeters; 12. Thermometers; 13. Electroencephalographs; 14. Deep Brain Stimulators; 15. Cochlear Implants.
  • 18. Total Hip ProsthesesII: LAB EXPERIMENTS; 21. Electrocardiograph Design Lab; 23. Pacemaker Programming Lab; 24. Echocardiography Lab; 26. Thermometry Accuracy Lab; 27. Surface Characterization Lab; 28. Entrepreneurship Lab.