Biomedical engineers try to address all kinds of i think exciting questions at the interface of medicine and engineering one of the problems you have as a physician is you come up with a great idea and you can't implement it so there's an advantage for healthcare professionals and being able to interact with engineers biomedical engineering is not just a field for engineers but also there's a biosign i design algorithm to control the insulin pump to deliver the right amount of insulin 24 hours and seven days patients get whatever the engineers make engineers make whatever they think the patients need the way i look at is the physicians are able to ask great questions and then and the engineers are able to come up with great answers but if you just have one and not the other you don't solve them because you don't even know what to ask or don't know how to answer so it really helps to keep everybody's research very relevant i initially joined the engineering medicine biology society to be able to connect with other like-minded people that's where i feel that i learn what exciting science is going on in the field you can kind of get this teleportation right to the cutting edge of a field and be part of that discussion for physicians being a part of the mbs provides an opportunity to be exposed to new technologies to provide feedback about the way we are developing this technology within the engineering society and i think it's this part rain with all these different disciplines from these different careers that really it's essential to move the field forward i feel i belong to part of important profession network which is making big impact to the society it's only exciting if research actually makes it off the bench top and helps people The biomedical engineers job consists of working in theatres, maintaining equipment, servicing equipment, whether that’s large equipment, for example incubators, ventilators, or small equipment like fusion pumps or syringe pumps.Medical engineering is important to the hospital in that they are required to fix, service or install machines when called upon, whether it be in theaters, children’s department or any other wards. Sometimes pieces of equipment get reported in as faulty so as a medical engineer you have to ensure that the equipment is working fine. By doing this, you have got to carry out functional checks, self checks, to make sure it is electrically safe. There is a different type of pressure when you are working in theater as well, there’s an operation ongoing as you have got to do the job as quickly and as efficiently as you can. One of the things I enjoy is problem solving because it’s thinking of a solution, how to overcome a problem and then doing that idea and overcoming that problem. The thing I love about my job is working with other people, working on different pieces of equipment and understanding different departments, what they do, which machines are in the department.A medical device has to meet certain criteria.It has to be tested at a certain interval under any ISO standard so you can't be treating it as just your standard computer. As far as we're concerned, this machine is fine to go back. We'll keep it with us for another little bit and then we'll send it probably back . So the screen didn't supply any incorrect flow.biomedical engineer at Hospital in the Department of Medical Technology and Physics.Initially did a trade in electronic servicing in domestic equipment. From there, having an electronics background, started in here and did pretty much on the job training.Then actually supplemented education. went and did an undergraduate degree in Health and Computer Science. done anatomy and physiological training within the course they provide to nurses.You know, because it really is good to understand what you're trying to measure. OK. Not that it's just a squiggle on a screen that looks like something and alarms when it doesn't reach a certain parameter. What are you trying to measure? Do you understand what the integration is of the equipment to the patient? So the electronics background, how the signal processing is happening what is the device trying to measure, why is it measuring it like that. It's working perfectly. Oh, that's good. We'll shut it down and we're done. This is one of our critical care devices so this is our anesthesia machine. This involves two disciplines essentially so there's a biomechanical division which essentially handles all the gas exchanges and the monitoring side which involves all the real-time wave form monitoring while the patient is anaesthetised. I have an opportunity now to look at the gas side of this which is the ventilator here and we've also got two anesthetic agent delivery units there. These are all modular devices. What we'll do is we'll just take a module out. This module, when it's hooked into this rack, will actually measure all your vital signs so it'll measure your ECG, non-invasive blood pressure, your oxygen saturation, temperature and invasive blood pressures and we can check all those with our simulators, making sure the correct measurements are coming up, making sure they're accurate. Module and this is our tester. Engineers are dedicated to certain areas of the hospital, so there'll be an engineer in ICU, one in theaters, one in emergency, one in cardiovascular medicine on a yearly rotation basis. If you're particularly a person that's good on an IT or computer level, you could look after the medical ICT component, for instance, central stations. A lot of the medical devices now are using standard operating systems to monitor patients. Someone who's really got a good frontline skill to repairing devices to a border or component level so they would be a good bench engineer. Another person could have a good personality but has enough understanding of the electronics, so they would be sent out as a field engineer, for instance, to deal with the nurses, the clinicians. As far as central stations goes and patient monitoring that's where the IT component is so if something happens to it, if it crashes or glitches for whatever reason, to understand the computer basics behind it, how to resolve that doesn't need your standard restart. Has hardware failed on the computer? Was it just a glitch where a reboot is more than enough? Patient monitors in the high criticality wards are then monitored by a central computer which for the most part looks like a standard computer but essentially it's a medical device because it's relaying patient information. So it's actually very critical, so for instance, your coronary care wards where one nurse could be looking after four bed areas, it's easier to monitor from via a central location. I think I was pretty good at a people-person level. I had good interactions with all clinical staff so now what I do at a senior engineer level, an administrative level is that now I will supervise some of the guys out there plus also be involved with equipment that's purchased by the hospital so I will sit on tender panels, evaluation committees. I do get to work on equipment occasionally, not as often, you know, as I used to but I do still get to get hands on. You know, it's not a boring job. It's actually a very exciting job.
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