Tuesday, May 24, 2011

Heart lung machine

Bioengineering also know as biomedical engineering is a discipline that combines engineering understanding with medical needs for the enhancement in healthcare. Bioengineering integrates the engineering sciences with biomedical and clinical practice to enhance human health in 3 levels.


  • Advance the data of living systems by applying engineering, biology, imaging and computational sciences as diagnostic tools.

  • Enhance the function of living systems by designing devices, systems and constructs based on biological and non-biological components.

  • Prevent the injury to living systems by establishing models, algorithms and devices that might possibly predict or guide behavior.


The crucial advances in bioengineering include the improvement of artificial joints, magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), the heart pacemaker, arthroscopy, angioplasty, bioengineered skin, kidney dialysis, and the heart-lung machine.

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