BIOM 101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 16: Monitoring In Clinical Trials, Personalized Medicine, Vital Signs
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Companies that design, manufacture, and sell medical devices instruments. -one of the largest & rapidly growing sectors of us economy. Provide more info, more rabidly, for less money. Point of care devices do(cid:374)"t ha(cid:448)e to se(cid:374)d a(cid:449)ay, better to aid i(cid:374) diag(cid:374)osis i(cid:374) de(cid:448)elopi(cid:374)g (cid:449)orld. Lab on a chip devices aid individualized diagnosis and treatment, personalized medicine. Sensor--detects input and converts it into a signal (usually an electrical voltage) which varies in a predictable and reliable way w/ changes in the input. Processor modifies the signal further (amplification, filtering out noise, compare to previous signals, ect) Receiver displays, stores, or communicates the signal in an interpretable message. Current time rate of change in charge (flow of positive electrical charge) in amperes, a. Voltage energy required to move a unit of charge through an element, in colts, v. Resistance opposition to current flow, in ohms, , which equals 1v/a. Capacitance ability to store electrical charge, in farads, f.
