Medical Instrument Design and Development (ePub)

This book explains all of the stages involved in developing
medical devices; from concept to medical approval including system
engineering, bioinstrumentation design, signal processing,
electronics, software and ICT with Cloud and e-Health
development.

Medical Instrument Design and Development offers a comprehensive
theoretical background with extensive use of diagrams, graphics and
tables (around 400 throughout the book). The book explains how the
theory is translated into industrial medical products using a
market-sold Electrocardiograph disclosed in its design by the Gamma
Cardio Soft manufacturer.
The sequence of the chapters reflects the product development
lifecycle. Each chapter is focused on a specific University course
and is divided into two sections: theory and implementation. The
theory sections explain the main concepts and principles which
remain valid across technological evolutions of medical
instrumentation. The Implementation sections show how the theory is
translated into a medical product. The Electrocardiograph
(ECG or EKG) is used as an example as it is a suitable device to
explore to fully understand medical instrumentation since it is
sufficiently simple but encompasses all the main areas involved in
developing medical electronic equipment.

Key Features:

* Introduces a system-level approach to product design

* Covers topics such as bioinstrumentation, signal processing,
information theory, electronics, software, firmware, telemedicine,
e-Health and medical device certification

* Explains how to use theory to implement a market product (using
ECG as an example)

* Examines the design and applications of main medical
instruments

* Details the additional know-how required for product
implementation: business context, system design, project
management, intellectual property rights, product life cycle,
etc.

* Includes an accompanying website with the design of the
certified ECG product (href="http://www.gammacardiosoft.it/book">www.gammacardiosoft.it/book)

* Discloses the details of a marketed ECG Product (from Gamma
Cardio Soft) compliant with the ANSI standard AAMI EC 11
under open licenses (GNU GPL, Creative Common)

This book is written for biomedical engineering courses
(upper-level undergraduate and graduate students) and for engineers
interested in medical instrumentation/device design with a
comprehensive and interdisciplinary system perspective.