Clinical Engineering Resources

Clinical Engineering is the term given to the development, use, on-going support, and maintenance of technology for diagnosing, aiding or treating patients. It covers a very wide range of devices used in healthcare - from simple items like crutches to anaesthetic machines, artificial hip joints, patient monitors, robotic surgery, ventilators and wheelchairs. Medical devices benefit from advances in electronic, electrical, information and computer technology (ICT), hydraulics and mechanical technologies as well as biochemical and gene developments. Dramatic advances in technology have transformed many medical devices. Clinical Engineers therefore require very broad training and experience.