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Detailed Needs and Requirements: Biomedical Engineering
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BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING
Biomedical engineering is a new and rapidly expanding service in V.A.
hospitals. It is concerned mainly with the design, development and
construction of a wide range of special instruments, including such
devices as cardiac pacemakers, artificial kidneys, and medical lasers, and
ultrasonic transducers for application in the field of clinical medicine.
The manufacture of such instruments, which may require elaborate
equipment, is not compatible with the bed-related patient care functions
and, although the nursing units may use much of the instrumentation
developed, it is recommended that biomedical engineering be regarded as
a central support facility and located outside the general nursing tower.
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