COURSE UNIT TITLE

: LABORATORY DEVICES

Description of Individual Course Units

Course Unit Code Course Unit Title Type Of Course D U L ECTS
BMT 2005 LABORATORY DEVICES COMPULSORY 3 1 0 4

Offered By

Biomedical Equipment Technology

Level of Course Unit

Short Cycle Programmes (Associate's Degree)

Course Coordinator

CANSU GÖÇMEN

Offered to

Biomedical Equipment Technology

Course Objective

To teach the working principles of laboratory devices and to teach them to eliminate malfunctions.

Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit

1   Ability to analyze faults in blood gas devices.
2   Ability to detect malfunctions of the blood count device.
3   Analyzing malfunctions of spectrophotometers.
4   Ability to troubleshoot fault analysis of autoanalyzers.
5   Ability to eliminate malfunctions of coagulometer devices.
6   Ability to troubleshoot microscope devices

Mode of Delivery

Face -to- Face

Prerequisites and Co-requisites

None

Recomended Optional Programme Components

None

Course Contents

Week Subject Description
1 Definition of laboratory devices, applications and operating principles.
2 Blood Gases Devices
3 Blood Cell Counting Devices.
4 Spectrophotometers
5 Spectrophotometers defects.
6 Autoanalyzers-1
7 Autoanalyzers-2
8 Midterm Exam
9 Autoanalyzers Types
10 Autoanalyzer Malfunctions
11 The electronic structure of coagulometer devices.
12 Microscope devices - monocular, biocular, surgery and electron microscopes.
13 Malfunctions of microscope devices
14 Pathology laboratory devices- 1
15 Pathology laboratory devices- 2

Recomended or Required Reading

MEGEP Lecture Notes
Biomedical Instrumantations Technology and Applications-R.S. Khandpur
Principals of Biomedical Instrumantetions and Measurment, Richard Astion, Merrill Publishing
Supporting Sources: Service manuals, user manuals.

Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods

Practical Training, Q-A, Expression, Research

Assessment Methods

To be announced!


Further Notes About Assessment Methods

1.Midterm exem
2.Task
3. Final

Assessment Criteria

Mid-term exam, assignments and a final examination shall be measured with six learning outcomes.

Language of Instruction

Turkish

Course Policies and Rules

70% of the classes is compulsory to attend

Contact Details for the Lecturer(s)

cansu.gunes@deu.edu.tr

Office Hours

To be announced.

Work Placement(s)

None

Workload Calculation

Activities Number Time (hours) Total Work Load (hours)
Lectures 14 3 42
Tutorials 14 1 14
Preparations before/after weekly lectures 14 2 28
Preparation for midterm exam 1 4 4
Preparation for final exam 1 4 4
Midterm 1 1 1
Final 1 1 1
TOTAL WORKLOAD (hours) 94

Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes

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