Competency information

Details

Operate a wide range of commonly encountered medical devices used in the organisation, ensuring coverage of diagnostic, monitoring and therapeutic equipment types.

Considerations

  • Practical application of the principles of transducers and clinical measurement in diagnostic and therapeutic medical devices.
  • The operation of a range of clinical devices and development of a generic approach to safe device operation, which can be applied to new or novel devices encountered later in the training scheme.
  • The anatomy, physiology and disease processes or deficits in the relevant area of clinical medicine.
  • The device role in disease assessment and monitoring, with an understanding of normal results versus patients with pathological changes.
  • Risks associated with device usage.
  • Sources of interference that may affect measurements and limitation of devices.
  • The use of devices in the clinical setting.
  • Selection of appropriate test equipment, including the need for calibrated versus indicating devices.
  • The use of electromedical safety testers and the practical testing of medical devices and their constituent parts.
  • An awareness of the requirements of safety testing electromedical systems and the recognition of anomalous results in medical device safety testing.

Relevant learning outcomes

# Outcome
# 1 Outcome Operate a wide range of medical devices used in the clinical environment, understanding their clinical applicability, associated risks and limitations.
# 2 Outcome Operate standard workshop test equipment, specialist medical device test instrumentation, including electromedical safety testers. Using appropriate equipment to test a range of Class 1 and Class 2 equipment of types B, BF and CF, including some with applied parts.