Date of Award

Summer 1989

Document Type

Thesis - Restricted

Degree Name

Master of Science (MS)

Department

Biomedical Engineering

Abstract

This study seeks to develop the foundation and background for the establishment of a clinical engineering hospital program. Clinical engineering programs are few in developing countries. The intent of the study is to encourage the establishment of a clinical engineering program in middle east care systems. Clinical Engineering is a relatively new field. The concepts of technology as an integral part of medicine, and engineers as part of the health care team was, until recent years, literally unknown. The term "Clinical Engineering" is itself new and was coined a decade ago to aid in identification of the people involved with the field itself. The term is now used internationally to focus on the needs that can be fulfilled through the application of technology to patient care. Chapter One provides an overall view of the clinical engineering program, which is then detailed in the rest of the study. Chapter Two describes the inventory program procedures, while Chapter Three briefly describes the system analysis through program initiation and methods required to minimize equipment failure of the system through ways of preventive maintenance which includes the repair of defective equipment, restoration and replacement cycle and analysis criteria. Also Chapter Three provides ways for a safe environment in the hospital by describing the neuroelectrical analysis of physiological systems. Chapter Four introduces some of the quantitative analysis of clinical instrumentation and also introduces some of the basic engineering design considerations of hospital systems. Chapter Five describes a typical clinical program facility and it also develops procedural models for this purpose.

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