Stretch marks, how men get them?

The lines are grooves in the skin which usually occurs when the skin is very widespread in a short period of time. The medical term for stretch marks is called strea. Stretch starts as red lines on the skin that rises slightly. The color of stretch marks depends on the color of the person who has. ...

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2009/06/16 Skin Problems No comments

Medical Ventilator

A medical ventilator is an important medical equipment or device that is designed to help breathable air to move in and out of the patient’s lungs, in other words it provides the mechanism of breathing for a patient who may not be in a condition to physically breathe or who breathes insufficiently. These medical ventilators ...

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2009/05/20 Ventilator No comments

Contact Lens

The contact lens is medical equipment in the form of a lens used as a corrective or cosmetic measure which is placed on the cornea of the eye. They usually serve the same therapeutic purposes as spectacles, but their advantages include being of light weight and also being virtually invisible to others. However, some contact ...

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2009/05/05 Contact Lens No comments

Hypodermic Needle

A Hypodermic Needle is a special Medical Equipment which is used by medical professionals with a syringe to inject liquids and fluids into a patient’s body or even to extract fluids from the body itself, for example to take blood from the vein of the patient. Its main function is to deliver quickly a drug ...

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2009/04/20 Needle No comments

Screening equipments and what they serve as

In medical terms, screening refers to the procedure carried out toe detect a disease in individuals who show no signs or symptoms of that disease. The main purpose for carrying out screening tests is to detect an undesirable disease in a community early, so that this might lead to proper handling and restriction of the ...

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2009/03/30 Medical Equipment No comments

The In-s and Out-s of an Infusion Pump

The requirement of such Medical equipment is to infuse blood and other such fluids such as medication or food into a patient’s body or more specifically into the patient’s circulatory system. These pumps can produce quite a high but controlled pressure in the body and therefore is often used to inject controlled amounts of fluid ...

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2009/02/15 Medical Equipment No comments

Safe Management of Medical Equipment

Medical Equipment management is a vital feature of handling a clinical department and must not be taken lightly by those that manage such a department. This includes maintaining an oversight over all the medical equipment that is required to monitor, diagnose or treat a patient correctly. The activities concerned with such management include selection and ...

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2009/01/25 Management of Medical Equipment No comments

So what is a Prosthetic ?

The term Prosthesis in the Medical world refers to using an artificially created and fit extension to replace a missing part of the body. These medical equipments are used to replace parts of the body which might have been lost in an accident or due to a birth defect. It is a science which fuses ...

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2008/12/30 Prosthetic No comments

Stethoscope: To Help Listen Deeply

The word Stethoscope is the Greek coined term for examination of the heart, and in the medical world, this instrument is used to listen to the internal sounds from an animal’s body. It is most effectively used to hear the sounds of the heart. The other sounds the instrument also picks up are the sounds ...

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2008/11/25 Stethoscope No comments

To Help Fix a Broken Heart

This is true for solely medical purposes, that a biological heart that may have stopped functioning could be replaced by this particular Medical Equipment, an Artificial Heart. An artificial heart was perhaps one of the long sought after medical ideas of the medicine world of today. The reason why medical people all over the world were ...

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2008/07/30 Artificial heart No comments