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~~333 Industry Based Learning Intensive care instrumentation: design philosophies, data
50 credit points
A six-month period of work experience occurring as part of the
third year of the course leading to the degree of Bachelor of
Applied Science (Medical Biophysics and Instrumentation).
Students are supervised by a member of the academic staff,
and are required to submit a report to their employer and to
their supervisor.
SP~OI
Experimental Techniques
4 credit points
No. of hours per week: two hours
Assessment: assignments and examinations.
Subject description
Earthing and shielding: reduction of noise and interference.
Electrical safety: Australian Standards for biomedical circuits.
Treatment of biophysical data: biological statistics and data
presentation, use of personal computers in biomedical practice,
utility packages physiological data acquisition and signal
processing packages. Applications of mathematical models of
physiological systems to experimental work, numerical
methods in biophysics.
Nuclear studies: radiation safety, dosimetry,
radiopharmaceuticals in clinical practice.
~~420 Instrumental Science 4
6 credit points
No. of hours per week: three hours
Prerequisite: SP320
Assessment: examination and laboratory reports
Subject description
Topics studied will include:
digital to analog and analog to digital converters;
the organisation of a computer, especially inpuvoutput;
hardware and software aspects of parallel interfacing;
hardware and software aspects of serial interfacing;
hardware and software aspects of analog interfacing.
~~424 Clinical Monitoring A
8 credit points
No, of hours per week: four hours
Prerequisite: SP324 or SP325
Assessment: examination, assignments and
laboratory reports
Subject description
Cardiac monitoring and pathologies.
The ECG: genesis of myocardial field, lead systems,
vectorcardiography, ECG changes in disease; effects of heart
position, arrhythmias and conduction defects, pacemakers and
defibrillators.
Monitoring pressure and flow: Swan-Ganz catheters, ultrasonic
and electromagnetic flowmeters, non-invasive techniques,
cardiac output by dye and thermal dilution, electrical
impedance method, phono- and echo-cardiography.
Neurophysiological monitoring: on-going brain electrical
activity, visual, auditory and somatosensory evoked responses;
the ERG, EOG.
processing and management; ambulatory monitoring and
telemetry. Cardiopulmonary bypass, requirements and design.
Reference
Webster, J.G. (ed), Medicallnstrumentation, 2nd edn, Boston.
Houghton Mifflin, 1992
~~425 Clinical Monitoring B
8 credit points
No. of hours per week: four hours
Prerequisite: SP324 or SP325
Assessment: examination, assignments and
laboratory reports
Subject description
Respiratory system: structure and function, lung volumes and
dead space, diffusion, blood flow; ventilation/perfusion ratio
inequality; gas transport, Bohr and Haldane effects, acid/base
status, respiratory mechanics, control of respiration.
Lung function testing and lung diseases, obstruction,
restriction: flow/volume curves, diffusion capacity, compliance,
body plethysmography, response to exercise, small airway
assessment, ventilation/perfusion ratio.
Renal vasculature: the juxtaglomerular apparatus, kidney
function tests, countercurrent multiplication, control of kidney
function, renal pathophysiology, the artifical kidney.
Monitoring the birth process: maternal, foetal and neo-natal
monitoring; uterine activity, foetal heart rate, Apgar scoring;
neo-natal circulatory and respiratory changes.
Anaesthesia: agents and their administration; monitoring;
physiological effects of anaesthesia, mathematical modelling.
~~431 Psychophysiology of Perception
17 credit points
No. of hours per week: eight hours
Prerequisites: SP232, SP331
~ssessment: examination and assignments
Instruction: lectures, tutorials. laboratorv work and
project consultation
Subject aims
To provide a knowledge of the physiology of peripheral and
central mechanisms of perception.
Tmprovide a knowledge of psychophysics and measurement.
" Subject description
Vision: the eye, peripheral mechanisms, central pathways and
processing.
Auditory and vestibular: the ear, mechanisms of sound and
vibration transduction, signalling balance, central pathways
and processing.
Somatosensory: reception mechanisms, peripheral and central
pathways, pain control.
Motor responses: central and peripheral control of movement;
integration of sensation with motor response; RT, MT, practical
aspects related to skill learning, ergonomics, and psychophysics.
Textbook
Rhoades, R. and Pflanzer, R. Human Physiology 2nd edn, Fort Worth,
Tex., Saunders, 1992
References
Kolb, B. and Whishaw, I.Q. Fundamentals of Human Neuropsychology:
3rd edn, New York, Freeman, 1990
Others as advised by lecturers