Abstract
Complicated surgical procedures, which are now considered routine, would not be possible without the benefit of present-day patient-monitoring techniques. All monitoring systems rely on a transducer to convert the biological phenomena into electrical data which are then processed and displayed in an appropriate form for the clinician. At present the weakest link in any system is invariably the transducer, the biomedical sensor, or biosensor.
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Covington, A.K. (1985). Technical aspects of biosensors. In: Shinton, N.K. (eds) New Technologies in Clinical Laboratory Science. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-4928-7_13
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