Biomedical Engineering
Biomedical engineering involves the application of engineering principles and design concepts to medicine and biology for healthcare purposes. It encompasses the development of medical devices, diagnostic equipment, and advanced therapies, as well as the integration of technology with the human body to improve healthcare outcomes. This interdisciplinary field combines expertise in engineering, biology, and medicine to address complex health challenges.
3 Key excerpts on "Biomedical Engineering"
eBook - ePub- Samantha Jacques, Barbara Christe(Authors)
- 2020(Publication Date)
- Academic Press(Publisher)
...The many applications of engineering principles associated with BME are far larger than the more narrowly defined area of clinical engineering. Thus, clinical engineering may be considered a focal area within the wide spectrum of the BME discipline. The World Health Organization (WHO) also utilizes the term biomedical engineer as a broad label for a diverse profession. In their 2017 publication, the group noted the variations on the term: “Biomedical Engineering” includes equivalent or similar disciplines, whose names might be different, such as medical engineering, electromedicine, bioengineering, medical and biological engineering and clinical engineering. World Health Organization (2017) Complicating professional labels is a common job title within the clinical environment: biomedical engineer, often a position name provided to technicians and technologists who support devices and medical equipment. These technicians generally focus on the applications of technologies, while utilizing hands-on experience and providing services such as repair, performance assurance testing, and preventive maintenance. Academic preparation varies, but many technicians in these roles have earned an associate’s degree in electronics or other closely related discipline. The relationship among the technician, engineer, and leadership, as characterized by the professional society, the Association for the Advancement of Medical Instrumentation (AAMI), is shown in Fig. 1.2. Figure 1.2 HTM career ladder. Historical perspective In the late 1960s, the profession of clinical engineering emerged as a BME specialty focused on broad issues in medical technology implementation beyond device maintenance and repair. Hospital safety awareness dramatically surged with the publication of an article written by Ralph Nader in Ladies Home Journal in March 1971. Nader claimed that there were a large number of hospital electrocutions each year...
eBook - ePub- Stuart Nagel, Stuart Nagel(Authors)
- 2020(Publication Date)
- CRC Press(Publisher)
...To a large extent, however, the growing health care funding crisis is tied to the diffusion of biomedical interventions in the last decade. Although there is disagreement as to the extent to which technologies have contributed to the health care crisis, few persons discount their role in increasing costs. Furthermore, as public expectations for access to these highly promising technologies have heightened and interest groups demanding such access have multiplied, biomedical technologies have moved to the center of the health policy agenda (Riegelman, 1991). In their broadest sense, biomedical technologies encompass much of what today is termed medicine. From new biologicals and drugs, to sophisticated diagnostic machines such as magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) and computed tomography (CT) (formerly called computerized axial tomography [CAT]), to life-support systems used to extend life, biomedical technologies have a tremendous influence over the way we define health care in the 1990s. This chapter focuses on policy developments and issues in a few of the most dramatic applications of biomedical technology, including human genetics, reproduction, neonatal intensive care, and organ transplantation. It also examines new issues surrounding the concept of death that follow the rapid developments in our capacity to intervene technologically in the dying process. Current policy and assessment initiatives and literature are analyzed for each of these issue areas. I. BIOMEDICAL TECHNOLOGY AND BIOMEDICAL POLICY At their base, all biomedical technologies focus on the question of the extent to which we ought to intervene directly in the human condition. They differ only in the stage of intervention (gametes, fertilized egg, developing embryo, fetus, newborn, within life cycle, end of life) and in the means of accomplishing the intervention...
- Saravanan Krishnan, Ramesh Kesavan, B. Surendiran, G.S. Mahalakshmi, Saravanan Krishnan, Ramesh Kesavan, B. Surendiran, G.S. Mahalakshmi(Authors)
- 2021(Publication Date)
- Apple Academic Press(Publisher)
...The tools and techniques of AI are useful for solving many biomedical problems with the use of computer-related equipped hardware and software applications. This chapter provides a thorough overview of the ongoing evolution in the application of Biomedical Engineering and informatics using AI techniques and tools. It gives a deeper insight into the technological background of AI and the impacts of new and emerging technologies on Biomedical Engineering and informatics. 3.1 INTRODUCTION Artificial intelligence (AI) is the human and computer interaction and development system that uses human intelligence to do various tasks like visual perception, speech recognition, language translations, robotics, and decision-making. AI and its related technologies offer real practical benefits and innovations in many research areas and in their applications. AI is a revolutionized technology that combines intelligent machines and software that work and react like human beings. AI and its applications are used in various fields of human life to solve complex problems in various areas like science, engineering, business, and medicine. Recent technological developments and related areas like Biomedical Engineering, medical informatics, and biomedicine use an innovative computer-based system for decision-making. AI is also used in various fields like biology, engineering, and medicine that give a great impact by using machine learning, neural networks (NNs), expert systems, fuzzy logic, and genetic algorithms. In Biomedical Engineering, AI could be used to aid the doctors in making decisions without consulting the specialists directly. AI and related decision-support systems help to make clinical decisions for health professionals. They use medical data and knowledge domains in diagnosis to analyze patient’s conditions as well as recommend suitable treatments for the patients...
