Editing Biomedical engineering (section)

{{Short description|Application of engineering principles and design concepts to medicine and biology}}
{{for|the journal known as Biomedical Engineering|Meditsinskaya Tekhnika}}
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'''Biomedical engineering''' ('''BME''') or '''medical engineering''' is the application of engineering principles and design concepts to medicine and biology for healthcare applications (e.g., diagnostic or therapeutic purposes). BME is also traditionally logical sciences to advance health care treatment, including [[Medical diagnosis|diagnosis]], [[Medical monitor|monitoring]], and [[therapy]].<ref name="EnderleBronzino2012">{{cite book|author1=John Denis Enderle|author2=Joseph D. Bronzino|title=Introduction to Biomedical Engineering|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=twc-GLOtlOQC&pg=PP2|year=2012|publisher=Academic Press|isbn=978-0-12-374979-6|pages=16–|access-date=2016-02-22|archive-date=2024-07-26|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240726171612/https://books.google.com/books?id=twc-GLOtlOQC&pg=PP2#v=onepage&q&f=false|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|title= Cell Surface Engineering|series= Smart Materials Series|editor1-first= Rawil|editor1-last= Fakhrullin|editor2-first= Yuri|editor2-last= Lvov|publisher= Royal Society of Chemistry|location= Cambridge|date= 2014|doi= 10.1039/9781782628477|url= https://pubs.rsc.org/en/content/ebook/978-1-78262-847-7|isbn= 978-1-78262-847-7|access-date= 2019-03-28|archive-date= 2021-01-25|archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20210125150322/https://pubs.rsc.org/en/content/ebook/978-1-78262-847-7|url-status= dead}}</ref> Also included under the scope of a biomedical engineer is the management of current medical equipment in hospitals while adhering to relevant industry standards. This involves procurement, routine testing, preventive maintenance, and making equipment recommendations, a role also known as a Biomedical Equipment Technician (BMET) or as a [[clinical engineer]].

Biomedical engineering has recently emerged as its own field of study, as compared to many other engineering fields.<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Nebeker |first1=Frederik |title=The Emergence of Biomedical Engineering in the United States |journal=International Committee for the History of Technology  |date=2001 |volume=7 |pages=75–94 |jstor=23786025 |url=http://www.jstor.org/stable/23786025}}</ref> Such an evolution is common as a new field transitions from being an [[Interdisciplinarity|interdisciplinary]] specialization among already-established fields to being considered a field in itself. Much of the work in biomedical engineering consists of [[research and development]], spanning a broad array of subfields (see below). Prominent biomedical engineering applications include the development of [[Biocompatibility|biocompatible]] [[prosthesis|prostheses]], various diagnostic and therapeutic [[medical device]]s ranging from clinical equipment to micro-implants, imaging technologies such as [[MRI]] and [[EKG]]/[[Electrocardiography|ECG]], [[regeneration (biology)|regenerative]] tissue growth, and the development of pharmaceutical [[medication|drugs]] including [[biopharmaceutical]]s.