The theme on the 5th semester was "Technology in the healthcare sector". The 5th semester was a bit atypial from the rest of the semester, because we actually where on Aalborg hospital. Each project group where attached with to departments on the hospital, one of them had made the project proposal for the fifth semester. Besides the to department we where attached to we had the opportunity to visit other departments of interrest.
We where attached to the department of clinical physiology where they made the project proposal and the depatment relating to vascular surgery. The project proposal was about distal pressure gauging, these meassurements are made on people where there is suspicion about that they might have arteriosclerosis in the legs or arms. These meassurements are used to decide what treatment the patients should have, eg. vascular surgery. On Aalborg hospital they have two strain gauge systems to do these measurements, which they had some consideration about. We made an analysis in close collaboration with the personal at the department, with observations, interviews, technical and physilogical analysis in order to put up some suggestion to optimize the systems. The project is unfortunately not in a digital format.