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TBMT24 Intensive Care and Therapeutic Systems, 6 ECTS credits.
/Intensivvård och terapeutiska system/

For:   BME   D   I   Ii   IT   Y  

 

Prel. scheduled hours: 56
Rec. self-study hours: 104

  Area of Education: Medicine

Subject area: Biomedical Engineering
  Advancement level (G1, G2, A): A

Aim:
The student should have knowledge of technologies and systems for intensive care and therapy in highly specialized care. The course also enlightens problems related to monitoring of vital functions and their usefulness from medical and ethical perspectives. The following goals should be fulfilled:
  • Exemplify and demonstrate engineering skills regarding monitoring systems and their clinical applications in intensive care, anaesthesia and ventilation.
  • Be able to assess differences between technologies used and the physiological parameters measured during intensive care monitoring for adults, infants and foetus.
  • Define technical principles and applications of heart pumps.
  • Summarize the operating theatres design, equipment and organization.
  • Have knowledge regarding physical principles of tissue destructive methods in surgery.
  • Have knowledge of instruments and applications for endoscopic surgery.
  • Summarize applications in laparoscopic surgery, cardiothoracic surgery and neurosurgery
  • Be able to reflect on ethical aspects regarding intensive care and therapeutic systems based on ethical principles and Swedish law.
  • Exemplify risks and regulations for medical devices or medical technical products and summarize how to report incidents.


Prerequisites: (valid for students admitted to programmes within which the course is offered)
Anatomy and Physiology

Note: Admission requirements for non-programme students usually also include admission requirements for the programme and threshhold requirements for progression within the programme, or corresponding.
Organisation:
Lectures, demonstrations, symposia, project studies, labratory work
Course contents:
  • Intensive care: Technical systems and clinical applications regarding intensive care, anaesthesia, ventilation, monitoring of vital parameters. Examples of application: fetus and neonatal monitoring, intensive care stations, cardiac/heart pumps.
  • Therapeutic systems: Technical systems for minimally invasive surgery and their physiological background e.g. the operating theatre design and equipment, systems for navigation, simulation and surgical planning, endoscopic surgery, electro- and laser surgery. Applications from e.g. thoracic,- and neurosurgery.
  • Ethics and incidents: Ethical questions regarding intensive care, therapeutic systems, transplantation and incidents.
  • Example of project work: Endoscopic surgery, Heart assistive pumps, Anesthesia, Fetus- and labour monitoring, Neonatal care, Intensive care, Neuronavigation.
  • Laboratory work: The Ventilator, Electrosurgery.


Course literature:
Medicin och Teknik (Kap.10-12), 2006, Lindén och Öberg; Minimally Invasive Instrumentation (Kap.10-13, 15), 2001, Webster; Selected chapters from "Encyclopedia of Medical Devices and Instrumentation", Webster, 2006; Selected chapters from "The Biomedical Engineering Handbook", Bronzino, 2000; LabPM Elektrosurgery, 2008; LabPM The Ventilator, 2008; Additional material from lectures.
Examination:
Written examination
Laboratory work
Project assignment
 3 ECTS
1,5 ECTS
1,5 ECTS
 


Course language is English.
Department offering the course: IMT.
Director of Studies: Göran Salerud
Examiner: Karin Wårdell
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Course Syllabus in Swedish

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Contact: TFK , val@tfk.liu.se
Last updated: 11/25/2009