Cardiovascular Equipment Maintenance
Course overview:
Our comprehensive training course is designed to equip learners with essential knowledge and skills to delve into the intricacies of various cardiovascular medical devices and procedures crucial in the healthcare field.
Throughout the course, participants will explore the physiology, electronic principles, and gain practical experience carrying out functional tests and verification checks on equipment associated with a range of critical medical practices, including:
- ECG diagnostic and monitoring
- Defibrillators
- Pacemakers – understand the functioning and applications of pacemakers
- Pulse Oximetry
- Blood Pressure Monitoring:
By the end of this course, learners will gain a comprehensive understanding of these critical medical technologies and procedures, empowering them to contribute effectively to patient care and medical teams.
Who Should Attend:
This course is specifically designed for biomedical engineering staff involved in the routine maintenance and repair of cardiovascular equipment. Both entry-level and experienced clinical technologists, technicians, and engineers will find this course invaluable, as it provides an excellent foundation knowledge of cardiovascular equipment.
Pre-requisites:
To ensure optimal understanding and safety during the training, participants will need to have a working knowledge in electrical safety testing procedures. Learners are ideally required to have completed an Electrical Safety Testing course.
Additionally, the minimum age for entry onto the course is 18 years old.
Course Aim:
To provide learners with the basic knowledge and practical experience needed to be able to carry out inspection, maintenance and repairs across a variety of cardiovascular pieces of biomedical equipment.
Course Objectives:
- Understand the physiological effects of electricity on the body and heart.
- Understand the techniques used for pulse oximetry and blood pressure monitoring.
- Understand the engineering and functional operation of cardiovascular equipment.
- Carry out inspection, testing, fault finding and maintenance of cardiovascular equipment in accordance with the relevant legislation, standards and manufacturers’ information.
Course completion:
On successful completion of the course learners will receive an e-certificate and digital credentials.
Digital credentials are comprehensive representations of the knowledge, skills, and behaviours gained through our learning programme, fully verified by City & Guilds.
These credentials are verifiable and trackable, enabling learners to electronically share their achievements on platforms such as LinkedIn and other social media, thus opening new opportunities for their future. For further details on digital credentials, use the following link: Digital Credentials | City & Guilds (cityandguilds.com)
What Next?
Learners should consider enrolling on one of our 3-day equipment specific programmes to provide further focus on particular medical equipment.
Learners should also consider enrolling on the Medical Equipment Technologies course.
