| Bioengineering also know as biomedical | | | | include artificial heart and replacement |
| engineering is a discipline that combines | | | | heart's valves, the artificial kidney and the |
| engineering expertise with medical needs for | | | | artificial hip. |
| the enhancement in healthcare. Bioengineering | | | | |
| integrates the engineering sciences with | | | | 3. Clinical Engineering |
| biomedical and clinical practice to improve | | | | |
| human health in 3 levels. | | | | Clinical engineering is the application of |
| | | | technology for health care in hospitals. The |
| - Advance the knowledge of living systems by | | | | clinical engineers work along with other |
| applying engineering, biology, imaging and | | | | medical team to adapt instrumentation to the |
| computational sciences as diagnostic tools. | | | | specific needs of the hospital. This often |
| | | | involves the interface of instruments with |
| - Improve the function of living systems by | | | | computer systems and customized software for |
| designing devices, systems and constructs | | | | instrument control and data analysis. |
| based on biological and non-biological | | | | |
| components. | | | | 4. Rehabilitation Engineering |
| | | | |
| - Prevent the injury to living systems by | | | | Rehabilitation engineering is a new and |
| building models, algorithms and devices that | | | | growing specialty area of biomedical |
| may predict or guide behavior. | | | | engineering. Rehabilitation engineering |
| | | | involves the design and application of |
| The major advances in bioengineering include | | | | devices to restore function to the physically |
| the development of artificial joints, | | | | disabled. Biomedical engineers contribute to |
| magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), the heart | | | | every field of rehabilitation engineering: |
| pacemaker, arthroscopy, angioplasty, | | | | communication enhancement for hearing and |
| bioengineered skin, kidney dialysis, and the | | | | speech, wheelchairs and wheeled mobility, |
| heart-lung machine. | | | | prosthetics, technologies for orthopedic and |
| | | | spinal cord injury. |
| Bioengineering Specialties | | | | |
| | | | Biomedical Engineer's Tasks |
| By combining biology and medicine with | | | | |
| engineering, biomedical engineers develop | | | | The examples of major contributions of |
| devices and procedures that solve medical and | | | | biomedical engineers include: |
| health-related problems. A person that | | | | |
| involve in bioengineering field may choose to | | | | - Designing and constructing cardiac |
| specialize in many specialty areas, among the | | | | pacemakers, defibrillators, artificial |
| well know specialty areas in bioengineering | | | | kidneys, hearts, blood vessels, joints, arms, |
| field include: | | | | and legs. |
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| 1. Bioinstrumentation | | | | - Designing computer systems to monitor |
| | | | patients during surgery or in intensive care. |
| Bioinstrumentation is the application of | | | | |
| electronics, measurement principles and | | | | - Designing instruments and devices for |
| techniques to develop devices used in | | | | therapeutic uses, such as a laser system for |
| diagnosis and treatment of disease. The | | | | eye surgery or a device for automated |
| advanced technology in computing plays an | | | | delivery of insulin. |
| important role in bioinstrumentation. One | | | | |
| example of bioinstrumentation device is | | | | - Designing clinical laboratories and other |
| medical imaging system, a device that enables | | | | units within the hospital and health care |
| a medical specialist to view and analyze 3 | | | | delivery system that utilize advanced |
| dimensional images captured from their | | | | technology. |
| patients. Enhanced computing technology & | | | | |
| power is needed to process the large amount | | | | - Designing, building and investigating |
| of information in a medical imaging system. | | | | medical imaging systems based on X-rays, |
| | | | magnetic fields (magnetic resonance imaging), |
| 2. Biomechanics | | | | ultrasound, or newer modalities. |
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| Biomechanics is the study of mechanical | | | | In Summary |
| parameters which drive living system motion. | | | | |
| The biomechanics experts are the people | | | | Bioengineering is a discipline that |
| contributed in human organ spare parts | | | | integrates the engineering sciences with the |
| development, these human organ spare parts | | | | life sciences to improve human health. |