Biomedical Device Technology: Principles and Design

Most biomedical technology books, geared for a technician or technical overview, do not offer much knowledge of the plethora of biomedical systems currently in use. I have been pleasantly surprised by this book. The first part of this book does a good job of discussing signal measurements, transducers, biopotential amplifiers, and electrical safety. This is fairly standard material which can also be found in other books. The author provides a good overview here. The second part of the book examines a large number of medical devices. There is very little BMET-oriented material that is not covered. There is just enough information to understand the basic principles involved. This is where the book is a great improvement over the many other books I have read. The author does a good job of keeping most of these chapters short and to the point. One thing noticeably missing from this book is imaging systems (X-ray,CT, MRI, sonography). At over 500 pages, the author was wise enough to not try to include imaging systems. Imaging systems could easily have added another 500 pages. Something else that is, thankfully, missing is any voluminous discussion of pertinent regulations. Too many biomedical books focus far too much on the regulatory aspects. The regulatory aspects belong in a separate book. Chan discusses some of the most important of these, and then moves on. Bravo! This is not a textbook. There are no end-of-chapter questions. It is a good reference book for anyone working with medical equipment. It contains enough breadth and enough depth to be useful to students and to technicians in the field. I hope that AAMI will place this book on their list of suggested books for the CBET certifications. This book is not sufficient for medical equipment designers. For designers, turn to Bronzino. I hope to see a second edition of this book in the future. If a second edition is planned, I would like the author to add a chapter (after electrical safety) on electrical safety analyzers. I would also like to see a bit more included in the mechanical ventilator chapter. But this is minor nitpicking. The book is good as is. For anyone who deals with medical equipment, including the operators, this is a good "keeper" book.

Just what I needed for my school. Nice packaging and fast shipping. Satisfied. This book is great for the beginners in this field to understand the principles of medical devices.

I think this copy is good for a novice electronic engineer who intends to develop some medical instrument. The concept is easy to understand.

Does it have a instructor manual or lab book and anything that goes along with this book?

Excellently laid out, well written, brilliant as a learning text and a reference. That said, after just 4 months of use my binding is failing and I'm losing pages. Another great reference text that seems to cheaply made to be usable as a reference.

the pages come apart so easily and the book is so fragile. This book was required for my class as a textbook. It was a easy read overall

Well written book, but started falling apart instantly after I bought it. Only option left is to spend $$ to get it re-bound.

There are a lot of books out there on biomedical devices/instrumentation but in my opinion this is the best out of all of them. This book covers everything from ECG,infusion pumps, ventilators to telemetry and much more. My only gripe with this books is i felt the section on pulse oximetry was lacking in the sense of transmittance vs reflectance probes, imperical table of values, the section on mechanical ventilation was good but depending on where you are on the world the modes and acronyms will be different ( SIMV,IPPV,CMV etc). I also felt the diagrams were excellent but would have been better in colour. The section on infusion pumps was missing a detailed explanation on siphonage (not freeflow ) which would have made it even more complete. The third edition and i am hoping the author will do a third edition should include all the gripes mentioned and add in a detailed chapter on central monitoring and telemetry to really complete it. A section on medical gases, electrical safety and ECG leads for europe and not america/canada would be icing on the cake. Overall this is a great book for anyoone involved in IPEM, FCRA etc or engineers/ technicians