Course detail

Standardization in Medicine

FEKT-ASTDAcad. year: 2010/2011

The subject provides the students with understanding of medical technology from the viewpoint of technical standards and metronomy. It is not the aim of the subject to present to them all norms currently in effect . It is focused on problems that can be encountered and have to be solved to avoid putting the patient’s health at risk.

Language of instruction

Czech

Number of ECTS credits

3

Mode of study

Not applicable.

Guarantor

doc. Ing. Milan Chmelař, CSc.

Department

Department of Biomedical Engineering (UBMI)

Learning outcomes of the course unit

Ability to view the devices from the position of both the designer and the user.

Prerequisites

Medical diagnostic technology. Therapeutic and protetic technology. Imaging systems in medicine.

Co-requisites

Not applicable.

Planned learning activities and teaching methods

Teaching methods depend on the type of course unit as specified in the article 7 of BUT Rules for Studies and Examinations.

Assesment methods and criteria linked to learning outcomes

Requirements are specified by guarantor’s regulation updated for every academic year.

Course curriculum

Standards for medical apparatus - the basic norm, electric security, standards for partial devices (their relationship to the basic standard), problems with medical gases, radiation security, metronomic problems, the approval process for medical apparatus.

Work placements

Not applicable.

Aims

To provide the students with the ability to tackle problems associated with the design of medical apparatus, installation and operation, and to consider the issues to be taken into account when purchasing such devices.

Specification of controlled education, way of implementation and compensation for absences

Extent and forms are specified bu guarantor’s regulation updated for every academic year.

Recommended optional programme components

Not applicable.

Prerequisites and corequisites

Not applicable.

Basic literature

Chmelař M. : Lékařská přístrojová technika I – CERM, s.r.o. 1995 (CS)
Chmelař M.: Lékařská laboratorní technika – VUT Brno 2000 (CS)

Recommended reading

Not applicable.

Classification of course in study plans

  • Programme BTBIO-A Bachelor's

    branch A-BTB , 3. year of study, summer semester, compulsory

  • Programme EEKR-CZV lifelong learning

    branch ET-CZV , 1. year of study, summer semester, compulsory

Type of course unit

 

Lecture

26 hours, optionally

Teacher / Lecturer

doc. Ing. Milan Chmelař, CSc.

Syllabus

1. Standards for medical devices -the basic standard.
2. Electric security of devices – diagnostic devices using electrodes on the patient’s body.
3. Electric security of devices – therapeutic devices using electrodes on the patient’s body.
4. Standards for apparatus operated in the operating theatre.
5. Standards for devices and operation of intensive care unit.
6. Standards for medical gases – requirements, distribution and requirements for devices where the gases are used.
7. Standards for the workplace using ionizing radiation for diagnostics.
8. Standards for the workplace using ionizing radiation for therapy
9. Standards for devices operated in biochemical and hematological laboratories.
10. Metronomy as related to verification of the technical parameters of devices operated in practice.
11. Sterilization in medicine – basic concepts and standards.
12. Standards for materials used in medicine.
13. The approval process for medical devices – authorized test rooms, statement of agreement and other.