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  • Book
    Sudip Paul, editor.
    Summary: This book illustrates the significance of biomedical engineering in modern healthcare systems. Biomedical engineering plays an important role in a range of areas, from diagnosis and analysis to treatment and recovery and has entered the public consciousness through the proliferation of implantable medical devices, such as pacemakers and artificial hips, as well as the more futuristic technologies such as stem cell engineering and 3-D printing of biological organs. Starting with an introduction to biomedical engineering, the book then discusses various tools and techniques for medical diagnostics and treatment and recent advances. It also provides comprehensive and integrated information on rehabilitation engineering, including the design of artificial body parts, and the underlying principles, and standards. It also presents a conceptual framework to clarify the relationship between ethical policies in medical practice and philosophical moral reasoning. Lastly, the book highlights a number of challenges associated with modern healthcare technologies.

    Contents:
    Chapter 1. Basic Overview of Human Physiology
    Chapter 2. Basics of Bioelectronics. Collection methods
    Chapter 3. Overview of Medical Physics
    Chapter 4. Biosensors and Transducers
    Chapter 5. Biomaterials and its medical applications
    Chapter 6. Bioinstrumentation and its design aspects
    Chapter 7. Techniques related to disease diagnosis and therapeutics
    Chapter 8. Biosignals and its significance
    Chapter 9. Medical imaging and image processing
    Chapter 10. Pathophysiology of diseases causing physical disability
    Chapter 11. Rehabilitation engineering
    Chapter 12. Robotics and its applications
    Chapter 13. Calibration, repair and safety aspects
    Chapter 14. Medical ethics and policies
    Chapter 15. Modern diagnostics tools.
    Digital Access Springer 2019
  • Article
    Wolk PJ, Apicella MA.
    Arch Intern Med. 1978 Jul;138(7):1084-5.
    The febrile responses of 73 bacteremic patients were retrospectively studied using peak temperatures and 24-hour areas under the fever curve on the day of the positive cultures. These responses were compared to their respective creatinine clearances calculated with the Nielsen-Hansen nomogram. Patients with clearances greater than or equal to 80 ml/min had a significantly greater febrile response than those with clearances less than or equal to 29 ml/min (P less than .025). Patients with clearances between these groups had responses that were in a mid position but not significantly different from either group. We conclude that patients with impaired renal function do manifest fever in response to infection, but that it is quantitatively less than those with normal renal function. Because of this blunted response, minimal elevations of temperature in such patients warrant a diligent search for the presence of infection.
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