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Level: second year semester one

The course introduces the fundamental concepts of the health care delivery system. It examines concepts such as; hospital organization and structure, bmet duties and responsibilities, and the professional and social interrelationships between services. The course also covers the human-instrument system and problems encountered in attempting to obtain measurements from a living body. This is achieved by examining concepts such as; electrodes, transducers, instrumentation, amplifiers, electrocardiographs, monitors, recorders, defibrillators, esu units, and related equipment. Finally, the course presents characteristics of biological signals and introduces methods for collecting, processing, displaying and recording of such signals. It discusses the principles of operation, block diagrams, schematic diagrams, performance testing procedures and common problems of selected physiological monitoring equipment. The course emphasises integration of lab exercises with the course content.