TBMT22	Intensive Care and Rehabilitation, 7,5 ECTS-points /Intensivvård och övervakning/ Advancement level: 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: TBME 50 Biomedical Engineering TBME 02 Anatomy and Physiology Course content: Intensive care: intensive care monitoring, anaesthesiology, respirators, fluid-, electrolyte- and drug administration, criteria's of death, ethical issues in intensive care Surgery: the operating theatre, surgical techniques, plastic surgery, transplantations, heart-lung machines, artificial heart assist pumps Hearing, vision, equilibrium: physiology of hearing, vision and equilibrium, hearing aids, audiology, ophthalmology, ERG, diagnostic methods Laboratory experiment: technical audiology (4h), the ventilator (4h), heart-lung assistance (4h) Project work (20h) 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.
TEN1	Written examination, 3 p.
LAB1	Labratory work, 2 p.
PRA1	Written examination, 0 p.

Course language is Swedish.