| TBMT22 | Intensive Care and Rehabilitation, ECTS-points /INTENSIVVÅRD OCH REHABILITERING/ Advancement level: C | |
| Aim: The course provides knowledge of technologies used in the operating theatre and intensive care unit to assist and monitor body functions. It also focuses on important therapeutic devices, including aids for the handicapped. A presentation and discussion of ethical issues forms an integral part of the course as well as a problem-based project work.Prerequisites: TBME50 Biomedical Engineering TBME02 Anatomy and PhysiologyCourse content: Intensive care intensive care monitoring, anaesthesiology, respirators, heart-lung machines, artificial heart assist pumps fluid-, electrolyte- and drug administration criteria's of death, ethical issues in intensive care Surgery surgery techniques, plastic surgery, transplantation's Aids for the handicapped, prosthesis regulation Hearing, vision, equilibrium physiology of hearing, vision and equilibrium, hearing aids, audiology, ophthalmology, ERG, diagnostic methods Assessment of medical technology innovation and spread of technology, methods for evaluation and assessment, cost-benefit-analysis, cost-effectiveness-analysis, ethical-, social-, legal aspects Laboratory experiment: technical audiology (4h), steering of artificial limb with EMG (4h)Course literature: Tortora G, Grabowski S. Principles of Anatomy and Physiology, Harper Collins College Publishers 1993. JG Webster. Medical Instrumentation, Application and Design. Houghton Mifflin Comp 1992. Intensivvård och rehabilitering, Compendium IMT. Bertil Jacobson, Medicin och teknik, Studentlitteratur 1995. | ||
| LAB 1 | Labratory work | |
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| TEN 1 | Written examination | |