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Valid for year : 2004
 
TBMT22 Intensive Care and Rehabilitation, 7,5 ECTS credits.
/Intensivvård och rehabilitering/

For:   D   I   Ii   IT   Y  

 

Prel. scheduled hours: 60
Rec. self-study hours: 140

  Area of Education: Medicine

Subject area: Biomedical Engineering

  Advancement level (A-D): C

Aim:
The course provides knowledge of technologies used in the operating theatre and the intensive care unit to assist and monitor vital body functions. The course also provides knowledge about the special senses and aids for the handicapped such as hearing aids and glasses. A presentation and discussion of ethical issues forms an integral part of the course as well as a problem-based project work.

Prerequisites: (valid for students admitted to programmes within which the course is offered)
TBME 50 Biomedical Engineering TBME 02 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 (50h), labratory work (12h) and project studies (20h).

Course contents:
Intensive care: intensive care monitoring, anaesthesiology, respirators, criteria's of death, ethical issues in intensive care. Surgery: the operating theatre, surgical techniques, transplantations, assist heartpumps, neurosurgery, new systems for surgery. Hearing, vision, equilibrium: physiology of hearing, vision and equilibrium, hearing aids, audiology, ophthalmology, ERG, diagnostic methods Laboratory experiment: technical audiology, the ventilator, heart-lung assistance. Project work.

Course literature:
Bertil Jacobson: Medicin och Teknik (kap.10-12), Studentlitteratur 1995. Kompendium IMT 1999. Bredvidläsning: Tortora, Grabowski. Principles of Anatomy and Physiology. Harper Collins College Publ. 1993, Kap 16, The Special Senses. Bertil Jacobsson: Teknik i praktisk sjukvård, Studentlitteratur, 1998.

Examination:
Written examination
Written and oral presentation of project work
Labratory work
3 p
0 p
2 p
 



Course language is Swedish.
Department offering the course: IMT.
Director of Studies: Göran Salerud
Examiner: Karin Wårdell
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Last updated: 02/27/2004