Subject Code Subject Title Category L T P Credit

ASSIST DEVICES CC 3 0 0 3

SYLLABUS
CARDIAC ASSIST DEVICES: Principle of External counter pulsation techniques, Intra-Aortic Balloon Pump,
Ventricular Assist Devices, Total artificial hearts, Heart-Lung machine, Prosthetic heart valves, Pacemaker,
Defibrillator.

ARTIFICIAL KIDNEY: Functions of the kidney, Renal Disease, Principle of dialysis, Membranes for
Haemodialysis, Dialysis Water and Dialysate, Dialyzers, Performance Analysis of Dialyzers, Access for
Haemodialysis, Haemodialysis machine – Blood circuit, Dialysis fluid circuit, Dialyzer Reuse, Portable kidney
machine.

PROSTHETIC AND ORTHODIC DEVICES: Materials in Rehabilitation Aids, Limb Prosthesis – Lower limb
and Upper limb prosthesis, Functional Prosthesis – Body powered, and Myoelectric prosthesis. Spinal orthosis,
Functional Electrical Stimulation, Haptic Devices, Assistive technology for blind and visually impaired, Visual
Prostheses, Cochlear Prostheses.

AUDIOMETERS AND HEARING AIDS: Mechanism of Hearing, Measurement of sound, Basic audiometer,
Pure tone audiometer, Speech audiometer, Audiometer system Bekesy, Evoked response audiometry system,
Calibration of audiometers, Acoustic immittance measuring device, Hearing aids.

VENTILATORS: Mechanics of Respiration, Artificial ventilation, Ventilators components, Ventilator terms,

Classification of ventilators, Pressure-volume-flow diagrams, Modern ventilators, High frequency ventilators,
Humidifiers, Nebulizers and aspirators, Anaesthesia machine.

TEXT BOOKS:
1. Khandpur R.S., “Handbook of Biomedical Instrumentation” Second Edition, Tata McGraw Hill Publication
Company Ltd., 2003.
2. John T. Daugirdas, Peter Gerard Blake, Todd S. Ing, “Handbook of Dialysis” Fifth Edition, Wolters Kluwer
Health, 2015.
REFERENCES:
1. AK Agarwal, “Essentials of Prosthetics and Orthotics” First Edition, Jaypee Brothers Medical Publishers
(P) Ltd, 2013.
2. John G. Webster, ""Encyclopaedia of medical devices and instrumentation"", Second edition, John Wiley
& Sons, 2006.