Biomedical Engineering and Technology
Biomedical Technology develops technical solutions for the field of medicine, combining interdisciplinary engineering findings with those of biological sciences and medicine. It is one of the key technologies with very high international pressure to innovate and has both scientifically and economically a very high importance.
Five of these tasks can be used for biomedical engineering Define:
-Improved therapies for patients less stress
Replacement of organs (tissue engineering)
Higher-cost
-Improved diagnostics
-Improved communication
Such a task complex biomedical technology focused on subject areas, each requiring a high degree of specialization. These are biomedical devices and instruments, biosensors and bioinformatics, biomedical optics, physiological modeling, tissue engineering and prosthetic devices, medical imaging and signal processing, clinical monitoring, drug-delivery systems, systems biology, biomaterials and biomechanics, Bioströmungsmechanik and micro-and nano-applications. The biomedical technology makes products, services and calibrated them and the school constantly working with the equipment medical personnel. The links between producers and users is very high, the resulting services is as great a relevance as the manufacture of products. These can be roughly divided into two groups.
a) Biomedical capital goods
These are systems, devices and instruments used in hospitals and medical practices, such as anesthesia and inhalation equipment, medical supplies, and surgical furniture, surgical instruments, endoscopes, microscopes, sensors, sterilizers, equipment for ophthalmology, dialysis machines and heart-lung machines.
b) consumption and durable goods
They are plaster, bandages, medical supplies for wound or incontinence care, compression stockings, catheters, needles and syringes, medical bandages, or intraocular lenses. A second sub-category account for all the products of tissue engineering, ie, prostheses, pacemakers, fitted parts, implants and artificial joints. The third sub-category products for rehabilitation and disability care, such as walking aids and wheelchairs, prosthetic and orthotic devices and equipment for home respiratory therapy.
As medicine increasingly uses technical solutions and environmental issues of ever increasing value assumes the importance of increasing cross-system solutions. In the development of biomedical technology, engineers and physicians work closely together, even in biologically-based working groups focused on tissue and cell engineering, biomechanics and material properties. The research field of biomedical engineering is broad and characterized by a high innovation potential. Specializations found for example in the areas of clinical audiology, instead of anesthesia, medical computer science, device development and device management, ophthalmology and rehabilitation technology. A growing importance is tissue engineering that deals with the replacement or the support of institutions through technical solutions. Of particular importance is the interaction of biological, and man-made systems with purely mechanical systems.