Introduction
Dear students, dear readers,
you are now holding a coursebook dealing with the problem of laboratory practical trainings
in the course Medical apparatus and devices at the Faculty of Biomedical Engineering of the
Czech Technical University in Prague (FBMI ČVUT). However, the coursebook is suitable
for other subjects as well, both at the FBMI ČVUT and at other faculties of ČVUT dealing
with medical instrumentation or using it.
The coursebook has been created as a universal set of groundwork for laboratory tasks
in the field of medical devices and instrumentation, and may be used in a number of other
subjects, as well, such as Special instrumentation in anaesthesiology and resuscitation care
(Equipments for Anaesthesiology and Resuscitation), Medical devices survey, Human
biosystem (biotransport), etc.
The aim of the authors was to create a coursebook which would not grow obsolete too
fast, and therefore there are usually no particular descriptions of the apparatus, unless the
apparatus forms the core of the task and is not only designed for teaching. Therefore in
several tasks, it is also necessary to work with the operations manual, just like in practice,
when the biomedical technician comes into contact with new apparatus.
The tasks cover a wide sphere of medical devices and instrumentation from
tonometers, electrocardiographs and defibrillators, past linear infusion pumps (syringe), all
the way to artificial lung ventilation and vital signs monitors. The coursebook is completed
with a task combining medicine with technical sciences. The tasks are focused in a highly
practical way, so that students can try to work with the individual instruments and devices in
each of them and gain practical skills and wide overview in the field of medical devices and
instrumentation.
While preparing the coursebook, the above mentioned group of teachers within ČVUT
and outside of ČVUT used several years of experience in teaching these issues.
This coursebook presents a specific result of the FBMI efforts to improve and extend
high quality laboratory equipment, both for studies and for research. For this purpose, FBMI
cooperates with many external professionals and companies. That should eventually bring
characteristic features in teaching, which can be found in real practice. In result it contributes
to better assertion of the graduates in these fields in practice.
This also corresponds to our effort to support this strive via different projects, also
including projects financed from the EU European Structural Funds and from the Czech
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