Clinical Engineering: A Handbook for Clinical and Biomedical Engineers - Hardcover

Azzam F. G. Taktak

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0123969611 ISBN 13: 9780123969613

Publisher: Academic Press Inc, 2013

Synopsis

Clinical Engineering is intended for professionals and students in the clinical engineering field who need to successfully deploy medical technologies. The book provides a broad reference to the core elements of the subject and draws from the expertise of a range of experienced authors.

In addition to engineering skills, clinical engineers must be able to work with patients and with a range of professional staff, including technicians and clinicians, and with equipment manufacturers. They have to keep up-to-date with fast-moving scientific and medical research in the field and be able to develop laboratory, design, workshop, and management skills. This book is the ideal companion in such studies, covering fundamentals such as IT and software engineering as well as topics in rehabilitation and assistive technology.

• Provides engineers in core medical disciplines and related fields with the skills and knowledge to successfully collaborate to in developing medical devices to approved procedures and standards
• Covers US and EU standards (FDA and MDD, respectively, plus related ISO requirements), the de facto international standards, and is backed up by real-life clinical examples, case studies, and separate tutorials for training and class use
• The first comprehensive and practical guide for engineers working in a clinical environment

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Review

Design, develop and bring medical devices to market successfully by following this integrated approach to designing according to recognized US and EU procedures

About the Author

Azzam Taktak, BEng (Hons), PhD, DipStat, CEng, CSci, FIPEM is Consultant Clinical Scientist at the Royal Liverpool University Hospital and an Honorary Professor at the University of Liverpool, Department of Medical Physics & Clinical Engineering. He is Vice President of Engineering and a Director of the IPEM. He is a national assessor at the Association of Clinical Scientists and lead assessor at the National School for Healthcare Scientists. His main research interests are mathematical and statistical modelling and the use of artificial intelligence and machine learning in medicine. To date, he has published more than 75 peer-reviewed articles and edited 2 books. He has in the past led a European project on ocular oncology under the Biopattern Network of Excellence which was funded by the European Commission.

Edition details

• Publisher: Academic Press Inc
• Publication date: 2013
• ISBN 10: 0123969611
• ISBN 13: 9780123969613
• Binding: Hardcover
• Language: English
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 480
• Editor: Azzam F. G. Taktak, Paul Ganney, Francis Hegarty, David Long, Paul White