UNSW Handbook Course - Mass Transfer in Medicine

Mass Transfer in Medicine - BIOM9311


	Faculty: Faculty of Engineering
	School: Graduate School of Biomedical Engineering
	Contact: Odell,Ross Alexander
	Campus: Kensington Campus
	Career: Undergraduate
	Units of Credit: 6
	Contact Hours per Week: 3
	Offered: Session Two
	Fee Band: 2

Description

Mass transfer in the living organism and in extracorporeal medical devices. Principles of diffusion and convection. Models of gas transfer in the lung. Transfer of solutes at the capillary level. Haemodialysis, haemofiltration, plasma filtration and blood oxygenators. Transfer across the peritoneal membrane-dialysis or drug delivery. Drug delivery across the skin.

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