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NICU stands for "neonatal intensive care unit." Infant incubators maintain a healthy environment for newborn babies. The complete equipment is discussed with parts separately and electronics circuit are mentioned for operation and Maintenance, repair, trouble shooting are given to understand the equipment completely.
Radiant Warmer: A bed for infants which is commonly used instead of an incubator if the baby is being handled more often. The bed has an overhead heating source to give the baby extra warmth.
Monitor for all the parameters of Infant –ECG- Disposable electrodes, Amplifier is discussed with front end amplifier with High CMMR and High input impedance and Electronics circuit. Transthoracic Impedance is measured for respiration. Oscillometric method is used to measure B.P continuously. Invasive B.P for Infant is disposable transducer is illustrated. Pulse Oximetry transducers are shown with explanation.
Phototherapy lights-The light is visible blue light and contains no ultraviolet light.
CPAP machine is used for newborns with breathing difficulties,
Mechanical Ventilator for Infant is available with Heated Wire Breathing Circuits,
High-frequency oscillatory ventilation (HFOV) is a rescue maneuver for failed conventional mechanical ventilation for infant.
Haematocrit micro Centrifuge is used for infant to use with capillary tube. PICU, Emergency equipments are discussed.
Rkv. Murugan
Er. R.K.V. Murugan is having 40 years of experience with Hospital Equipments Scientific Equipments, Analog, Digital and Power Electronics,. He is a postgraduate Engineer with Post diploma in Medical Equipment Technology. He was working at Madras University and with multiple Medical Equipment companies across India and also in Gulf for R&D, Installation, Repair and maintenance.
During 1980 itself got hands on experience with microprocessors and now with microcontrollers. Hands on experience with Arduino also.
He does components level repairing of equipments, so he knows very well about components. and he knows Switched mode power supply design. He designed and modified many number of Equipments. He worked with X-ray Equipment, CT Scan, MRI, Anesthesia equipments in operation theatre and variety of equipments in ICU, NICU, PICU, CCU, Emergency departments. He specialized with Renal dialysis and Laboratory equipments. He is very well versed with modern Technologies.
He is also author of Hospital Medical Equipments made easy Volume 1 thru 10 published by notion press.com. A complete set of these books are available in Anna University Library.
