Medical Equipment Technologies
Course overview:
This comprehensive course covers the following areas:
- Electrical Safety Testing: Understand the principles of patient safety and electrical safety testing embedded within the course.
- Cardiovascular Equipment Maintenance: Learn about ECG monitoring and diagnostics, defibrillation, pacemakers, pulse oximetry, and blood pressure monitoring.
- Physiological Monitoring and Infusion Equipment: Gain insights into patient monitoring, foetal monitoring, apnoea monitoring, and infusion devices.
- Theatre Equipment Maintenance: Explore surgical diathermy, operating tables, gas monitoring, and endoscopy.
- Medical Therapeutic Equipment: Delve into nerve and muscle stimulators, therapeutic ultrasound, interferential therapy, and shortwave diathermy.
- Introduction to Anaesthesia and Ventilation: Get an introductory understanding of anaesthesia and ventilation techniques.
Enhance your expertise with hands-on experience and practical knowledge in these critical areas of medical technology.
Who Should Attend:
This course is tailored for individuals with a good understanding of biomedical equipment principles, applications, and maintenance procedures. It’s ideal for biomedical engineers and technicians tasked with the routine maintenance and repair of biomedical devices in a variety of clinical environments.
Additionally, clinical engineers ,technologists and technicians seeking to enrich and enhance their knowledge of medical devices, functionality, industry legislation and regulations will find this course invaluable.
Furthermore, students and recent graduates in biomedical engineering and related disciplines aiming to acquire practical skills and industry knowledge will benefit greatly from this training.
Pre-requisites:
To ensure optimal understanding and safety during the training, participants will need to have a working knowledge in electronic and mechanical principles.
Additionally, the minimum age for entry onto the course is 18 years old.
Course Aim:
To provide learners with the knowledge and practical experience needed to be able carry out inspection, servicing and repairs of different types of Biomedical equipment in accordance with MHRA guidance, IEC Standards, relevant manufacturers information and the National Occupational Standards for Servicing Biomedical Equipment.
Course Objectives:
- Demonstrate competence in Electrical Safety Testing of Medical Electrical Equipment
- Explain the need for safe working practices and procedures in the workplace
- Demonstrate competence in visual inspection and performance verification checks for Cardiovascular Equipment
- Demonstrate competence in visual inspection and performance verification checks for Patient Monitoring and Infusion Equipment
- Demonstrate competence in visual inspection and performance verification checks for Operating Theatre and Surgical Equipment
- Understand the concept of anaesthetic gasses and agents
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)
