10. Private Sector National Health Information Exchange: this is a thorough system of electronic health records linking consumers, general practitioners, hospitals, pharmacies, and insurance companies. Continue reading
If you have ever went to emergency room in United States, one essential item you will be finding is a medical crash cart full of loads of surgical equipment. It is so because of the very simple reason Continue reading
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 lenses are purposely colored to change the appearance or the color of the eye. According to research, it is estimated that nearly one hundred and twenty five million people all over the world, now use contact lenses, with at least twenty eight million people in the United States alone.
People might choose to wear contact lenses over the use of spectacles due to many practical reasons. Continue reading
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 into the circulatory system of the patient, when circumstances prevent the drug to be digested normally by the patient, or in cases when the drug would not be absorbed by the body itself, as is the case with insulin or because the drug could possibly harm the liver of the patient, as is the case with testosterone.
These needles are made of stainless steel in the form of a tube. Continue reading
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 spreading of the disease and could thereby reduce the rate of mortality in the particular community.
The medical equipment that is used for carrying out such screening tests is very different from the standard equipments that medical facilities use in diagnostic tests. Screening equipments are used to detect whether there is a possibility of the particular disease or medical condition on the other hand, diagnostic medical equipment is used to make measurements of the visible symptoms of the patient to determine the exact remedial procedure to be followed in the patient’s treatment. Continue reading
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 just beneath the skin of the patient (subcutaneously) or even just within the central nervous system (epidurally).
There are several kinds of infusion that can be carried out depending on the patient’s requirement and thus the Infusion pump would have to be programmed accordingly. Continuous infusion is the type that is carried out in small pulses of time, between five hundred to a thousand micro liters, depending on the design of the equipment. Continue reading
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 of the intestine and flow of the blood through the vessels in the body.
The Stethoscope was invented in France in 1816, and its prototype was made of wood. Its original design looked like a common ear trumpet used during those days by those who were hard of hearing. It was finally in 1852 that the design was perfected and was ready for commercial use and that has been the standard model of the Stethoscope used till date all over the world. Continue reading
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 desperate for the success of such an invention was to lower the pressure on heart transplants, the supply of which is always lower than the demand. The concept of the way the heart functions is not very hard to grasp, it is a body of muscle that pumps blood, but it entails such complications which proves it to be the delicate darling of the body. These complications subsequently affect the body to reject foreign objects or start limiting the patient’s ability to move. For these reasons, a successful invention of an artificial heart was not only important but was also very trying. Continue reading
