JAWAHARLAL NEHRU TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY HYDERABAD

Pre-requisites

Nil.

UNIT - I

Diagnostic Equipment – I: Bio Amplifiers and signal conditioning circuits. Bioelectric Amplifiers - Different types of bioelectric amplifiers. Recorders & Display Devices: General features of Thermal, Ink Jet, Photo graphic, Dot Recorders. General features of Display Devices for Bio -Signals.

UNIT - II

Diagnostic Equipment -II: E.C.G, T.M.T, E.E.G, E.M.G, P.F.T, Phonocardiography. (Working principle, Types of Electrodes used, Calibration, Basic Trouble Shooting). Ophthalmoscope, Retinoscope. Analytical equipment: pH Meter, Conductivity Meter, Electrophoresis, Chromatography, Flame Photometer, Spectrophotometer, Biochemistry Analyzers, Electrolyte Analyzers, Cell Counter, Blood Gas Analyzer. (Working principle, Types of Electrodes, Calibration. Basic Trouble Shooting)

UNIT - III

Monitoring Equipment: Bedside monitors, Multi parameter monitors, Arrhythmia monitors, Holter monitor. Blood Pressure Monitors, Central monitoring stations in critical care units, Ambulatory monitors, foetal monitors, Apnea monitors.

UNIT - IV

Therapeutic Equipment - I: Infusion pumps, Suction Apparatus. Pacemaker: Synchronous - Asynchronous, External -Internal, Demand & Fixed type Pacemaker, Programmable Pacemakers. Defibrillators: AC & DC Defibrillators, Synchronous & Asynchronous. Electrical Safety. Nerve stimulators, Bladder stimulators, Implant able Stimulators,

UNIT - V

Therapeutic Equipment – II: Short wave Diathermy, Micro wave Diathermy, Ultra Sound Diathermy, Heart Lung machine: Governing principle, Qualitative Requirements, Functional details of thin film membrane type blood oxygenators. I. A. B. P:-principle & application.

TEXT BOOKS:

• 1. Handbook of Bio Medical Instrumentation -R. S. Khandpur. 2003
• 2. Joseph J. Carr, John Michael Brown; Introduction to Biomedical Equipment Technology, Pearson. 2001
• 3. John Webster. Medical Instrumentation.- Application and Design. John Wiley and Sons. Inc., New York. Third edition 2003.

REFERENCE BOOKS:

• 1. Bronzino, Joseph; Handbook of Biomedical Engineering. 2nd edition, CRC Press, 2000.
• 2. Bio-Medical Instruments Theory & Design. Welkowitz, Walter & Others, 2 nd Edition, Academic Press, 1991