Title :
Instrumentation for Health Care
Author_Institution :
Biomedical Engineering and Instrumentation Branch, Division of Research Services, National Institutes of Health, U.S. Department of Health, Education, and Welfare, Bethesda, Md. 20014.
fDate :
5/1/1973 12:00:00 AM
Abstract :
Engineers, pragmatic and ``action´´-oriented, are indispensable principal members of the health-care team. The primary role of the biomedical engineer is to provide the conceptual and material tools required to perform medical tasks, i.e., instrumentation for health care.
Keywords :
Biomedical engineering; Biomedical measurements; Energy measurement; Hospitals; Instruments; Manufacturing; Medical services; Power engineering and energy; Reliability engineering; Surgery;
Journal_Title :
Biomedical Engineering, IEEE Transactions on
DOI :
10.1109/TBME.1973.324270