Basic Electronic Troubleshooting for Biomedical Technicians
Introduction
Working with biomedical electronics in the healthcare environment is an exciting and rewarding career. Our goal is to bring that career challenge to the student with mechanical and critical thinking abilities in addition to a compassion for those suffering from medical maladies. And, given that healthcare is evolving into a technological monolith, the available technology is changing the ways doctors and nurses treat their patients.
Maintaining and repairing medical devices is distinctly correlated to the healthcare profession itself. The biomedical troubleshooting process requires clinical knowledge of the device and its application. An error in judgment during the repair of a medical device could result in misdiagnosis, patient injury, or death. Due to this significance in the troubleshooting and repair process of medical devices, the authors feel a separate text is required apart from that of basic bench electronics troubleshooting and repair.
Unfortunately, there just aren't current or applicable technical books available with relevant content. They're all out of print or a rewrite of the same old book with a new cover. Professors and instructors are required to mold their courses around the available texts and bring 300 pounds of handouts to class. In many ways, it was this frustration that led us to produce this book.
Our primary objective in writing this book was to impart knowledge with a minimum of theoretical perplexity. We each have several decades of field experience and attempt to share our experiences when appropriate in order to better understand concepts in a hands-on approach rather than a mathematical approach. There are a multitude of diagrams and pictures throughout the book that illustrate concepts in a manner superior to any mathematical equation. (You'll rarely hear that claim from a graduate-level educated engineer.)
In addition, this text has been designed to be the most student friendly of all biomedical electronics troubleshooting books published. The chapters flow from elemental to more complex concepts. Each chapter outlines its objectives and ends with review questions over chapter material.
The authors would like to thank Glen Ridings, TSTC Waco Electronics Core, for his invaluable expertise by reviewing chapter content throughout the book. Mr. Ridings is a long-time electronics and semiconductor instructor and is a living testimony to the knowledge you can retain if you have a passion for a subject matter combined with high personal standards.
We would also like to thank Mark Long, our publishing manager, editor, sounding board, and overall source of inspiration. Mr. Long is our standard bearer and this book is a testament to his perseverance.
Nicholas Cram Selby Holder
This book helps technicians to understand electronic repair problems without introducing high-level engineering formulas. The book presents applications-oriented problem-solving techniques along with pictorial representations that replace complicated theory-oriented and equation-intensive learning processes. There are chapters on industrial safety systems, AC/DC theory, reading electronic schematics, semiconductor devices, and power supplies.
2010 -- 205 Pages -- ISBN: 1934302511 -- PDF -- 8 MB
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Introduction
Working with biomedical electronics in the healthcare environment is an exciting and rewarding career. Our goal is to bring that career challenge to the student with mechanical and critical thinking abilities in addition to a compassion for those suffering from medical maladies. And, given that healthcare is evolving into a technological monolith, the available technology is changing the ways doctors and nurses treat their patients.
Maintaining and repairing medical devices is distinctly correlated to the healthcare profession itself. The biomedical troubleshooting process requires clinical knowledge of the device and its application. An error in judgment during the repair of a medical device could result in misdiagnosis, patient injury, or death. Due to this significance in the troubleshooting and repair process of medical devices, the authors feel a separate text is required apart from that of basic bench electronics troubleshooting and repair.
Unfortunately, there just aren't current or applicable technical books available with relevant content. They're all out of print or a rewrite of the same old book with a new cover. Professors and instructors are required to mold their courses around the available texts and bring 300 pounds of handouts to class. In many ways, it was this frustration that led us to produce this book.
Our primary objective in writing this book was to impart knowledge with a minimum of theoretical perplexity. We each have several decades of field experience and attempt to share our experiences when appropriate in order to better understand concepts in a hands-on approach rather than a mathematical approach. There are a multitude of diagrams and pictures throughout the book that illustrate concepts in a manner superior to any mathematical equation. (You'll rarely hear that claim from a graduate-level educated engineer.)
In addition, this text has been designed to be the most student friendly of all biomedical electronics troubleshooting books published. The chapters flow from elemental to more complex concepts. Each chapter outlines its objectives and ends with review questions over chapter material.
The authors would like to thank Glen Ridings, TSTC Waco Electronics Core, for his invaluable expertise by reviewing chapter content throughout the book. Mr. Ridings is a long-time electronics and semiconductor instructor and is a living testimony to the knowledge you can retain if you have a passion for a subject matter combined with high personal standards.
We would also like to thank Mark Long, our publishing manager, editor, sounding board, and overall source of inspiration. Mr. Long is our standard bearer and this book is a testament to his perseverance.
Nicholas Cram Selby Holder
This book helps technicians to understand electronic repair problems without introducing high-level engineering formulas. The book presents applications-oriented problem-solving techniques along with pictorial representations that replace complicated theory-oriented and equation-intensive learning processes. There are chapters on industrial safety systems, AC/DC theory, reading electronic schematics, semiconductor devices, and power supplies.
2010 -- 205 Pages -- ISBN: 1934302511 -- PDF -- 8 MB
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