Biomedical engineering- In-plant training
Sun 21 May 2017
In December 2014 I had the opportunity to work at the Biomedical Engineering Department of the Deenanath Mangeshkar Hospital (DMH) in Pune. You can see the certification of my time at DMH here: (pdf)
During my time at DMH I worked alongside the department engineers on various repair, maintenance and installation tasks for various medical instruments and systems. This period allowed me to exercise many of the hardware concepts that I had learnt in the second year of my engineering degree. My time at DMH allowed me to survey many different medical instrument systems and helped me gain a level of comfort working with hardware, since almost each day involved opening up a instrument system. On other days I had the opportunity to work on other tasks such as maintenance, installations, calibration and benchmarking. The systems I had the opportunity to work with ranged from small simple systems like a weighing machine to massive complex systems like a CT scanner. Some of the instruments and systems which I had the opportunity to learn about are mentioned below:
- Vital parameter moniter
- PC-Based Exercise ECG
- Stress test machine
- Mammography system
- Bone densitometry test system
- Pfizer Valleylab electrosurgical generator
- Two-dimensional Electrocardiogram system
- Ultra-sonography machine
- Brachytherapy system
- Clinical chemistry analyser
- CT scanner quality assurance
- Portable CT Scanner
- LED illuminated optical microscope
- Portable X-Ray System
- Continuous passive motion unit
- ECG machine
- Portable pulse oximeter
- Refrigerated blood bank centrifuge installation.
- Fetal Non-stress test machine
- Electrolysis machine