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The Role of the Engineer and Technology in Healthcare

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The engineer in charge with developing, producing and marketing of medical devices has to be a specialist in many interdisciplinary realms, ranging from natural sciences to finances and ethics. This requires both curiosity, knowledge and the capability of finding compromises in terms of cost and time. Current main issues represent the following questions: (1) “How to test a device adequately?” (2) How to cope and avoid extractables from polymers and medical devices? (3) How to achieve a reasonable biocompatibility? A good understanding of physiological pathways and processes in the body of a human being helps to answer these questions during conception, research and development of devices for medical application. Last but not least, the bioengineer has to be communicative, because many questions can only be answered in a cooperation between scientists and engineers from both academia and industry.

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    Joerg Vienken

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    Carlo Boccato

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    Sergio Cerutti

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    Joerg Vienken

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Vienken, J. (2022). The Role of the Engineer and Technology in Healthcare. In: Boccato, C., Cerutti, S., Vienken, J. (eds) Medical Devices. Research for Development. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-85653-3_2

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