4.00 Credits
Prerequisite(s): ENTC 3320. A first course in biomedical instrumentation. Content includes hospital equipment safety, biopotentials, electrodes and transducers, the principles of electrocardiographs, pacemakers, defibrillators, IV pumps, catheters and ventilators, information flow, medical indications and complications, the patient-machine interface, how to teach others to use the equipment. Laboratory experiments on medical circuits will be studied or performed.