Cardiac Electrophysiology

Salam


Cardiac electrophysiology is the science of elucidating, diagnosing, and treating the electrical activities of the heart. The term is usually used to describe studies of such phenomena by invasive (intracardiac) catheter recording of spontaneous activity as well as of cardiac responses to programmed electrical stimulation (PES). These studies are performed to assess complex arrhythmias, elucidate symptoms, evaluate abnormal electrocardiograms, assess risk of developing arrhythmias in the future, and design treatment. These procedures increasingly include therapeutic methods (typically radiofrequency ablation) in addition to diagnostic and prognostic procedures. Other therapeutic modalities employed in this field include antiarrhythmic drug therapy and implantation of pacemakers and automatic implantable cardioverter-defibrillators (AICD).

P/S: My heart is................................ =(

Aku Anoz

What Does BioMedical Engineers Do?

May Peace Be Upon You.

I just got back from Birmingham. Been there to watch All England Open. It was really fun to see Datuk Lee Chong Wei won! And it is an honour to cheer for him as well.

Anyway, sorry guys. I know I haven't update my blog for a few days. Today I should write a new entry. But it seems really impossible to write in my condition right. Haven't got enough sleep for the past couple of days. I'm really tired. So, I just can't be bothered. ^_^

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Biomedical Engineer? Have you guys ever heard that before? I copied and pasted these from BME group in Facebook. Remember guys, 'copy and paste'. This is not the usual thing I generally do. LOL!

Anyway, sit back, relax and enjoy~

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You Know You're a Biomedical Engineer When…:


* Patients can't live without us, Doctors as well :)

* Doctors run In hospitals, We RUN hospitals!

* A Mechanical Engineer studies motion, A Biomed cares for a Safe motion

* A Civil Engineer links columns, a Biomed links bones

* An Electrical Engineer design regulators, A Biomed design pacemakers: the regulators of your heart beats

* A Computer Engineer process Digital computer signals, a Biomed decipher the brain complex bio-signals

* A Telecommunications Engineer develop telephony systems ("Connecting People"), a Biomedical Engineer develop telesurgery systems that prevent Doctors, in high precision surgeries, from "Collecting People"!

* A Chemical Engineer drills to take fuel out and circulate it in polluting machineries, A Biomed pierces to take out tumors and keep your blood circulating in a healthier body

* A Nuclear Engineer can explode a whole city and waste healthy people's life, a Biomed can explode the tiny stone and make suffering patients enjoy their life

* An Agricultural Engineer design water irrigation systems to the soil, a Biomed design fluid irrigation systems in your tissue

* An Architect design buildings and statues, a Biomed design Bio-Robots

* You can Date Spouses from any Major, you have the Global knowledge and Studied all Majors already =PP

* You studied Human Physiology, and enjoyed it to the MAX!!!

* It's hard to get rid of us. We live inside you, through Biomaterials. ^_^

* While We capture a Medical Image for you, you don't have to "Say Cheese" because X-Rays show all your teeth and more :P

* With X-Rays, We can "take out" your bones and you still alive!

* With MRI, We control your Resonance!

* With Ultrasound, We can know whether your baby who's kicking hard in his mother's womb is a future football player, or a pretty girl who will kick the arse of guys (Biomeds not included)

* With Biomedical Instrumentations, we build a circuit:
We get a bio-signal from you (though you don't know what does it mean),
We Amplify it (you should practice giving more powerful signals next time, if not still ok),
We process it (hey you can relax and go back home),
We decode and display it so others can further analyze the data We translated

Summary: We know Body Language! (Btw you don't have to be a Belly Dancer :D)

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As you guys can see, I bold three points  in above section. Guess why? ^_^

I'm Anoz

Keputusan Peperiksaanku

Salam

Post yang berbaur akademik. Baca jika mahu. Kalau tak mahu, tak apa. Berat gak post ni! Hohoho...

Post ni aku tulis dalam 2 peringkat. Hari sebelum ambil result dan hari selepas ambil result.

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Esok Keluar Result lah!

Ini boleh dikatakan hari yang aku tertunggu-tunggu. Exam hari tu aku buat super teruk. Sumpah terbogel tak tipu. Tapi aku harap result dia tak terbogel sangat. Cuak Cuak Cauk Cauk!

Di bawah ini adalah paper yang aku ambil semester lepas. Nama module adalah di dalam tulisan bold. Penerangan juga diberikan.

ACS 111 System Modelling : Gabungan Electrical Eng dan Mechanical Eng. Analisis situasi dan masalah daripada mata System Eng. Agak susah paper ni.

EEE 130 Electrical circuit : Belajar gabungan circuit. Mengkaji parts di dalam medical devices seperti X-Ray, MRI dan Ultrasound. Mendalam sikit berbanding Fizik A-level.

MEC 120 Design and Manufacturing : Design ciptaan baru. Contoh ciptaan adalah seperti mesin golf putter dan mechanical car toy. Sebelum semester tamat, kena present ciptaan kita tu.


MAS 147 Mathematics : Macam math. Eh, memang math pun! Susah sikit aje dari math A-Level.


MAT 191 Introduction for BioMedical Eng : Introduction sahaja. Tapi bagi aku, paper yang paling susah antara semua paper. Gabungan medicine dan engineering. Fizik dan Biology. Pening kepala tak? Pening kan? Terima kasih aje.

MAT 1410 BioMaterials : Menglasifikasikan bahan-bahan mengikut sistem tertentu. Mengkaji bahan yang boleh di'implant' ke dalam badan manusia. Memastikan bahan tu bio-compatible/sesuai untuk badan manusia. Banyak nak kena hafal. Otak aku tak sesuai sangat untuk menghafal.

MED 1510 Tissue Structure and Function : General studies untuk anatomy, histology dan physiology. Susah gila sebab kena hafal nama-nama tulang dan organ manusia. Untuk histology, masuk lab dan tengok cell-cell melalui microscope. Untuk anatomy pula, masuk lab dan potong-potong organ manusia. Agak seram.

Jadi, module kita ada yang sama tak? ^_^

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Result dah keluar dah!

Alhamdulillah semua okay dan tak ada yang fail. Kalau fail, kena repeat bulan ogos nanti. Mana larat nak repeat time tu. Aku nak balik Malaysia!

Waktu buat exam, aku expact ada fail 2 paper. Tapi Alhamdulillah dua-dua lulus. Tapi lulus yang agak rendah lah.

Di bawah ini keputusan ku.

• ACS 111 System Modelling : 64%
• EEE 130 Electrical circuit: 92%
• MEC 120 Design and Manufacturing : 73%
• MAS 147 Mathematics : 81%
• MAT 191 Introduction for BioMedical Eng : 64%
• MAT 1410 BioMaterials : 56%
• MED 1510 Tissue Structure and Function : 55%

Aduh. Bengang bengang. Paper yang menghafal semua aku dapat teruk. 50% lebih aje. Tapi yang lain oke la kot. Kat sini aku perlu menambahkan kapasiti otak aku untuk mengingat. Otak ni senang lupa lah.

So basically, pembelajaran universiti kat sini tak pakai CGPA. Dia pakai sistem yang agak mudah iaitu sistem weighted average.

Tambah tolak bahagi darab, average aku dapat 70%. Kira first class honour degree lah ni. Tapi tu pun kalau dapat maintain sampai final year. Alhamdulillah. Sejuk perut mak ayah aku dengar.

Lupe pulak nak letak tag line,
Aku Anoz

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So tell me, how was your result?