Competency information
Details
Access information sources to aid with the operation of devices, including manufacturer’s instructions for use, medical device workshop manuals, organisations medical device training resources
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. |