Medical Engineering

The course will prepare the student to identify surgical instruments, distinguish their category, know their use, and name them. This course will give emphasis on the knowledge and recognition of medical instruments, as well as instrumentation and how they will help physicians. The course will cover topics, such as the identification of medical instruments, their categories, use, and inspection. There will be emphasizes on testing their quality, how they are set up, sealed, other instruments like the robotic and laser instruments, endoscopes, other complex instruments, how they are regulated.

Learning outcomes

1.      To identify basic surgical instruments by category, name, and use;

2.      To demonstrate the different methods used to test and inspect various types of surgical instrumentation.

3.      To describe the use of surgical instrumentation.

4.      To understand how instrument quality assurance testing are done.

5.      To demonstrate the proper procedures for assembling instruments/procedure trays.

6.      To differentiate between various categories of special instrumentation utilized in operating rooms.

7.      To demonstrate inspection and testing of endoscopic and robotic instrumentation and how to select the appropriate packaging material for instrumentation sets and medical equipment.

8.      To demonstrate how to check packaging materials for defects, cleanliness, and function.

9.      To demonstrate how to sets in peel pouches, sterile wraps, and rigid pans are packed.