The student must study the material on the topic and be able to answer the following questions:
1. Electrical conductivity of biological tissues.
2. Processes in tissues under the action of electric currents.
3. Galvanization, medicinal electrophoresis.
4. Frequency dependence of the threshold of sensible and non-releasing currents.
5. Passive electrical properties of human body tissues.
6. Equivalent electrical circuits of intact tissues.
7. Total resistance (impedance) of living tissues. Frequency dependence.
QUESTIONS
1. The mechanism of direct current through biological tissue. Galvanization. Therapeutic electrophoresis.
2. Types and arrangement of pacemakers. Defibrillator.
3. The action of low frequency currents on the human body. Electrosleep.
4. Mechanism of action on biological tissue of modulated sinusoidal currents. Amplipulse. Application in medicine.
5. The action of currents and fields of high frequency on the human body. D’arsonvalization. Inductothermy.
6. UHF therapy. Microwave therapy.
7. EHF-therapy. Mechanism of action. Application in medicine.
8. Thermal action of currents and fields. Application in physiotherapy.
9. The specific effect of high-frequency currents and fields on the human body.
10. Effect of laser radiation on biological tissues. The use of lasers in medicine: ophthalmology, dentistry, surgery, therapy, oncology.