Biomedical Instrumentation: Technology and Applications

Thirty-five chapters on hospital equipment in three parts. The measurement part starts from anatomy, physiology and the sources of biomedical signals, then covers electrodes and conducting gels, physiological transducers, recording systems, biomedical recorders, patient monitors, ambulatory and foetal monitoring, telemetry and telemedicine, oximeters, blood flowmeters, cardiac output measurement, pulmonary function analysers, laboratory instruments, blood gas analysers, blood cell counters, audiometers and patient safety. Imaging follows through X-ray and digital radiography, computed tomography, nuclear medicine, magnetic resonance, ultrasound and thermal imaging. The last part covers therapeutic and life-support devices: pacemakers, defibrillators, surgical instruments, lasers, electrotherapy equipment, haemodialysis machines, lithotriptors, anaesthesia machines, ventilators, radiotherapy equipment and automated drug delivery systems.