Medical Technology Overview

Question 1

Medical Device

Answer 1

Health or medical instruments used in treatment, mitigation, diagnosis or prevention of a disease or abnormal physical condition.

Question 2

Diagnose

Answer 2

• Identify the nature of medical condition
• Give chemical reaction to test things

Question 3

Electrical Engineering

Answer 3

Uses electricity, electromagnetism and electronics to better understand the body.

Question 4

Mechanical Engineering

Answer 4

Measures pressures, volumes, temperatures and kinematics to better understand the body.

Question 5

How to measure non-invasive blood pressure

Answer 5

1. Pressure until you don’t hear anything
2. Start removing pressure
3. Systolic Pressure (when you hear pulse)
4. Diastolic Pressure (when you cannot hear pulse)

Question 6

Engineering Physics

Answer 6

Uses optics and sound to understand the health of the human body

Question 7

Oximetry

Answer 7

• Measures the oxygen in the blood (on the finger).
• Transmits light through a translucent measuring site such as the finger.

Question 8

Chemical & Materials Engineering

Answer 8

Develop processes to transform energy and materials

Question 9

Treatment

Answer 9

Medical care given to a patient for an illness or injury

Question 10

Heart-Lung Bypass System

Answer 10

During open-heart surgery, blood is removed from body and externally oxygenated and pumped back into the body for perfusion.