Therapeutic Techniques & Instrumentation
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Therapeutic Techniques & Instrumentation Syllabus — Unit-wise Content
The official GTU curriculum for Therapeutic Techniques & Instrumentation (subject code 2160303) as prescribed for Biomed · Semester 6 divides the course into 9 units, covering 54 listed topics. The unit-wise breakdown below is read from the GTU syllabus document for this subject code, so you can check what the course actually covers before deciding which papers to attempt.
Download the official syllabus PDF (2160303)Unit 1 DC Defibrillator
- Need and circuit description
- Rectangular wave defibrillator
- electrodes used
- DC defibrillator with synchronizer
- Performance aspects of DC defibrillator
- Implantable defibrillator and defibrillator analyzers
- Cardiac Pacemakers
Unit 2 Ventilators
- Artificial ventilation
- Types & classification of Ventilators
Unit 3 Dialysers
- Principle of dialysis
- artificial kidney
- function and working of dialyser
- parallel flow dialyser
- coil hemodialyser
- hollow fiber hemodialyser
- Performance analysis of dialysers
- membranes used for hemodialysis
- Block diagram and working of hemodialysis machine
- Blood leak detector
- portable kidney machine –working and flow diagram
Unit 4 Principle of surgical diathermy
- Electrosurgical equipments & techniques
- Electrosurgery units
- spark gap valve
- solid-state generator
- Construction and working of surgical diathermy machine
- electrodes used
- Safety aspects like burns
- high frequency current hazard, and explosion hazard
- operating principle of surgical diathermy analyzer
Unit 5 Basic concepts about LASER
- LASER coherence
- Its principle of operation
- gain medium
- pumping mechanism and resonator design
- Types of LASER: pulsed ruby laser
- ND YAG laser
- argon laser and CO2 laser
- Applications of laser in medicine: control of gastric hemorrhage by photocoagulation
- retinal detachment
Unit 6 Short-Wave, Diapulse, Microwave and Ultrasonic Therapy
- circuit description
- application and dosage control
- Electrotherapy diagnosis
- electrical stimulation for pain relief
- apparatus and current waveforms
- Spinal cord stimulator and cerebral stimulation
Unit 7 Neonatal instrumentation
- Incubator: physiological heat balance
- heat production and heat loss methods
- Apnea detection
- Photo therapy devices
Unit 8 Anesthesia machine
- Gas supply and delivery
- vapor delivery
- Patient breathing circuit
- Complete schematic of anesthesia machine
Unit 9 Cardiovascular and vascular surgery, catheters, heart lung
- coronary angiography
- balloon angiography
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