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

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0123969611 ISBN 13: 9780123969613

Publisher: Academic Press, 2014

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

About this title

About the Authors

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 Universities of Liverpool and Manchester. He is a former Vice President of Engineering,
CEng Registrar 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.

Paul Ganney, BSc (Hons), MSc, PhD, CSci, MIPEM, FIAP, 34 years, 5 jobs, 3 reorganisations, 2 city moves and a PhD later,
Consultant Clinical Scientist Dr. Ganney is turning his attention more towards training the next generations of Computer
Scientists, of trying to give them the platform, tools and experience they will need in order for Clinical Scientists and Engineers to
always make a positive difference through the software that they write. Paul is currently lecturing part-time at three Universities
and has a wealth of experience both within the academic and practical hospital environments that he is keen to apply.

David Long, BEng (Hons), MSc, CEng, MIPEM, is a Clinical Engineer registered in the UK as a Clinical Scientist with the Health
and Care Professions Council. He has over 20 years multi-disciplinary NHS experience in the field of rehabilitation engineering,
specialising in the provision of postural management and custom contoured seating. Being a Chartered Engineer as well as
a qualified clinician, Dave is particularly able to apply biomechanical principles to the assessment process, and to advise and
assist with the more technical aspects of the required equipment. He is employed by AJM Healthcare who deliver a number
of wheelchair services on behalf of the NHS. He also retains a contract with Oxford University Hospitals NHS Trust where
he teaches on the Oxford Brookes University accredited Postgraduate Certificate in Posture Management for People with
Complex Disabilities.

Edition details

• Publisher: Academic Press
• Publication date: 2014
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0123969611
• ISBN 13: 9780123969613
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 480
• Editor: Taktak Azzam, Ganney Paul, Long David