Patient Safety, Standards and Ethics detailed syllabus for Biomedical Engineering (BME) for 2021 regulation curriculum has been taken from the Anna Universities official website and presented for the BME students. For course code, course name, number of credits for a course and other scheme related information, do visit full semester subjects post given below.
For Biomedical Engineering 5th Sem scheme and its subjects, do visit BME 5th Sem 2021 regulation scheme. For Professional Elective-II scheme and its subjects refer to BME Professional Elective-II syllabus scheme. The detailed syllabus of patient safety, standards and ethics is as follows.
Course Objectives:
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Unit I
EFFECTS OF ELECTRICITY
Physiological effects of electricity – important susceptibility parameters – microshock – macroshock hazards -patients electrical environment – isolated power system – conductive surfaces
Unit II
PATIENT SAFETY LAWS AND REGULATIONS
Mandatory Reporting systems. Anatomy of a patient safety Law: Compliance Tips, Federal patient safety Legislation Initiatives, Medical Device Reporting, Clinical trials and Adverse-Event Reporting, Patient safety Goals and standards, The Quality Assessment and performance Improvement rule.
Unit III
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Unit IV
PATIENT SAFETY IN MAIN CLINICAL SPECIALITIES
Intensive care and Anesthesiology, safety surgery save lives, Emergency department clinical risk, Obstetric safety patient, Patient safety in internal medicine, Patient safety in Radiology.
Unit V
MEDICAL ETHICS
Definition of Medical ethics, Scope of ethics in medicine, American medical Association code of ethics, CMA code of ethics- Fundamental Responsibilities, The Doctor and The Patient, The Doctor and The Profession, Professional Independence, The Doctor And Society, Case Studies.
Course Outcomes:
At the end of this course, the student will be able to
- Outline the importance of patient safety against electrical hazards.
- Brief out the patient safety laws and regulations
- explain the standards and testing of patient
- Understand the concept of the patient safety specialities in clinical
- know about various health care organization
Text Books:
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For detailed syllabus of all the other subjects of Biomedical Engineering 5th Sem, visit BME 5th Sem subject syllabuses for 2021 regulation.
For all Biomedical Engineering results, visit Anna University BME all semester results direct link.