9. Doppler-Guided Uterine Artery Occlusion: a unique and non-invasive approach toward treating fibroids, the ‘Doppler-guided uterine artery occlusion’ (DUAO) is really great. The fact is, fibroid tumors occur in over 40% women over 35. This leads to pelvic pain, pregnancy problems along with heavy bleeding.

8. Integration of Diffusion Tensor Imaging (Tractography): This is a brilliant new technology allowing neuroscientists to non-invasively probe that half of the brain known as white matter.

7. LESS and NOTES Applications: LESS (laparoendoscopic single-site surgery) reduces the whole process to a tiny cut in the belly button.

NOTES (natural orifice transluminal endoscopic surgery) is great as what it does it to bypass normal laparoscopic incisions completely.

6. New Strategies for Creating Vaccines for Avian Flu: this approach employs a virus-like particle (VLP) which could potentially offer a better solution for protecting humans against Avian Flu..

5. Percutaneous Mitral Valve Regurgitation Repair: How this works is, the surgeon uses a tiny barbed, wishbone-shaped device to cure the heart non-surgically. First, a catheter is guided through the femoral artery in the groin region till the mitral valves of the heart. Then, the clip on the tip of a catheter is shut on the center of the valve leaflets. This helps in holding them together to quickly restore regular blood flow.

4. Multi-Spectral Imaging Systems: This new imaging system allows for the accumulating lots more information than we have available now. This is excellent for researchers who want a better understanding of the complex signaling pathways in cancer cells

3. Diaphragm Pacing System: This works by connecting 4 electrodes to the phrenic nerves on the diaphragm. When the electrodes are subjected to an electrical current, the diaphragm contracts and air gets sucked into the patient’s lungs. When there is no current, the diaphragm is allowed to relax so that air exits the lungs.

2. Warm Organ Perfusion Device: The moment a heart is available for transplanting, surgeons have no more than four hours before the organ decay sets in. This device is brilliant as it simulates conditions within the body which allows the heart to pump till 12 hours.

1. Use of Circulating Tumor Cell Technology: This is essentially a blood test measuring the circulating tumor. The test can detect metastases earlier than ever before and it also can predict the patient’s outcome, within reason..

An essential too to Deal with Emergency

The medical crash cart should be accessible always and be absolutely equipped if an emergency occurs and have a extensive range of a necessary tools which are needed for most frequent emergencies. Every surgical equipment which is placed in crash cart should be arranged in such a manner as for making them all easily available if emergency occurs.

The purpose of treatment in emergency room is to save patients in a critical condition and that’s the reason which led to use and development of modern crash carts. As well its important to have wheels in crash cart so that the surgical equipment which is carried by it may be easily moved from one place to another.

A Large range of Crash Carts

In today’s hospital emergency room the crash cart is one of the most essential tools and as they are developing very fast they have become instrumental to save countless lives. But, all crash carts are not same. Actually, dependent of the area of a hospital in which you are, you can find crash carts and the surgical equipment on them prepared by different means to match with each areas particular conditions.

Development of modern Surgical Equipment

That’s why you would get  very special set of surgical equipment on a crash cart which is in a neonatal ward.  At that time you would get on a crash cart in a ward for the treatment of aged patients. As an advanced surgical equipment has been developed new ways to find uses for that on crash carts are constantly being found.

People might choose to wear contact lenses over the use of spectacles due to many practical reasons. Contact lenses are less affected by outdoor weather conditions as compared to glasses and do not fog up and provide a much wider field of vision to the user. They are especially suitable for playing outdoor sports or for rigorous outdoor work or travelling. There are also some specific eye related ophthalmological conditions such as Aniseikonia or Keratoconus which cannot be perfectly corrected by using spectacles.

There are different types of these contact lenses. The Corrective Contact Lenses are used by those who wish to improve vision. Most of these people suffer from a refractor error, which occurs when there is an imbalance of the refractive power and the length of the eye. A contact lens thus helps to improve the condition of this mismatch. For those people who suffer from colour deficiencies, they use red tinted contact lenses, this may not completely cure their colour blindness, but it does help them to distinguish between colours better.

Cosmetic contact lenses are used solely to change the colour or appearance of the eye, and have very little corrective effects. They are usually proven to cause no long term damage to the eye but may cause a little irritation and blurring of vision from time to time, and must thus be worn as little as possible.

The Therapeutic lenses are the soft lenses that are used to treat and manage the non refractive defects of the eye of a patient. There are contact lenses of the bandage variety, which covers an infected or injured cornea, this protects the cornea from impurities around it or the constant rubbing caused due to the blinking of eyelids and thus allows it to heal.

These needles are made of stainless steel in the form of a tube. The ends are usually sharpened to different bevels according to requirement. The sharp point of the needle tip helps to penetrate the skin easily. The rule is that when the needle is inserted, the bevel must be facing upwards.

The diameter of needle itself is indicated by the gauge of the needle. There are a variety of lengths of needle available for every kind of needle gauge according to requirement. For most common medical use, needle gauges range from seven to thirty three, seven being the largest.  The size that is most commonly used for drawing blood for testing purposes is the twenty one gauges. Sixteen or seventeen number gauge is usually used to make blood donations.

Hypodermic needles are most likely to be used by medical professionals, such as doctors, nurses or paramedics; however they are many a times used by patients themselves. This is usually the case with those patients suffering from diabetes of type one; they require several injections of insulin everyday. Even such patients who suffer from asthma or other such allergies may have to administer medication by using these needles themselves, as they might require the medication at any point of time. Such patients require carrying desensitization needles or carrying the syringes filled with Benadryl or the likes. This would prevent these patients from suffering from an attack or an allergic reaction. These Hypodermic needles are also often used for recreational drug use that is administered by the user intravenously. Earlier on, these needles could be obtained only through prescription; however most countries now allow such needles to be dispensed without prescription.

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.

There is however several adverse affects associated with carrying out screening procedures. Like most other medical procedures, screening tests carried out may not be completely perfect. The equipments that are usually used are not technologically top notch and not very well developed. As a result of this, they might prove to show inconsistent results. They might prove to show positive results for those who actually do not have the disease or may show negative for those who do have the disease and require treatment. Therefore they are not completely reliable. There are other adverse affects also related to such screening tests, for example, these tests almost always cause stress and anxiety for the patients, combined with exposure of the patient to radiation and chemicals. If false positive results are given by the equipment, then, unnecessary investigation and treatment of the disease would be carried out on the patient, leading to another set of negative affects. If the equipment detects false negative results, it would create a false sense of security for the patient and would in turn prolong his treatment, worsening his or her medical condition.
The usual types of screening that are carried out on a large scale basis in communities are, fetal screening, new born screening, screening for various kinds of cancers such as prostrate cancer or breast cancer, etc.

Because of the adverse affects of screening, the World Health organization published a set of principles in 1968 for carrying out screening which must be followed, these are applicable till date.

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. Intermittent infusion is the kind which has a high rate of infusion. The timings for the infusion are programmable. This type of infusion is usually carried out to administer antibiotics or such other drugs that have a chance of disturbing the blood vessel. There is also a type that allows a patient controlled infusion. The rate of the infusion can be controlled by the patient through a pressure pad or a single button which is attached to the device. There are also some infusion pumps that allow the control of the amount of infusion being carried out depending on the time of the day. This kind of infusion is sometimes important to particular types of medication.

There are two basic categories of such pumps. Large volume pumps are the ones that are used to pump fluid into the patient’s body which is enough to supplement for feeding him or her. Small volume pumps on the other hand infuse medication or hormones according to the medication procedure. Within these classes there are different designs of such pumps. Some may be portable for frequent personal use or to be used for emergencies such as on the battlefield, but most are designed to be used professionally in hospitals.

The major need for these infusion pumps is because they carry out a function that would be in practice extremely expensive and unreliable if the same function were to be carried out manually by the nursing staff. For example they can administer as low as 0.1 ML per hour of infusion, which is too small a number for a drip, or even infusions every minute.

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. In the 1940’s however, this design was further perfected and modernized by the Hewlett Packard Medical Division and later sold to Philips.

Like any other instrument that would help to amplify sound, there are some specifications for which the designs are a little different according to the requirement. It is the Acoustic Stethoscope that is most familiar to the common man. This operates very simply; there is a chest piece which picks up the sounds which are transmitted to the listener’s earpiece via hollow air filled tubes. The chest piece usually has two sides, the Diaphragm (the disc) and the Bell (the hollow). The problem with such Stethoscopes is that the frequency of the sounds that they transmit is very low.
Electronic Stethoscopes are the newest rage. They function in the same way that an Acoustic Stethoscope does, it converts the acoustic sound waves which it picks up to electrical signals which can then be amplified, and thus sounds can be heard louder than the average Acoustic ones. At present, many Medical Equipment companies offer these Stethoscopes and it can be predicted that in sometime they would have surpassed the use of the Acoustic Stethoscopes.

There are also other special Stethoscopes such as the Fetal Stethoscope or the Fetoscope. This is also like an Acoustic Stethoscope but shaped like a trumpet. Its function is to transmit the sounds of the heart of the fetus and is therefore placed against the abdomen of an expecting mother.  It is also known as Pinard’s Stethoscope or a Pinard.

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.

The interest in developing an artificial heart has been around for years, from way back in 1949 and all over the world. It was in 1949 that the fore runner of the modern artificial heart had been created by Bill Sewell using an Erector Set and other odds and ends from the general store. This device lasted in a bypassed dog for a little more than sixty minutes. This was followed by Dr. Kolff (the world’s best known inventor of artificial organs) to experiment by replacing his model of an artificial heart into a dog which survived for a little longer than eighty minutes, this was in 1952. It was finally in 1982, after more than a hundred efforts all over the world, Dr. William DeVries, successfully transplanted his model of the artificial heart into a living human being who survived for almost a hundred and twelve days. Since then, more than three hundred people have received this Jarvik Model of the artificial heart and most have survived it.

Towards the late 1980’s, the artificial heart began to develop into a more permanent and implantable device. They began to be better electrically powered and monitored. According to the specialists of heart transplants such as the French A. Carpentier, the fully working artificial heart would be ready for use and transplants by 20013 by him and his team. There are such teams all over the world striving for similar results.

Diagnostic Equipments are the ones which would help a doctor to diagnose a medical condition or to also run through check ups. This variety mainly consists of machines used for Medical Imaging, including various kinds of ultrasound and MRI machines and also the other scanning devices such as the CT Scanners.

Then there are the therapeutic equipments that help a doctor to carry out a treatment on a patient for a particular medical condition or illness. These include instruments such as Medical Lasers and pumps and important surgical machines. The various sub units that fall under the artificial Life Support System are also medical equipments. Some of these equipments are the Medical Ventilators, the ECMO, the heart-lung machines and the dialysis machines. All these equipments help the body to maintain its bodily functions instead of the organ that is failing to perform.

There are monitoring machines also that fall under the category of medical equipment. These help to keep a patient’s health under check and monitored all the time. The monitors keep all the vital signs in check including the important parameters such as blood pressure, EEG and ECG etc.

There are also those kinds of equipment that help those working in the medical laboratories to analyze samples of blood, urine or DNA for medical data and such related.

There are also those medical devices which are used for patients living at home and being administered by the patient himself or by another caregiver or family member. Such devices are called Home Medical Equipments, as they are easy and safe to be used in the house without professional help. These are also often referred to as Durable Medical Equipment as they are meant to last long even though they may be repetitively used.   Examples of such medical equipment include, Artificial Limb, Medical Wheelchair, Air Purifier, Diabetic Shoes and Nebulizer etc.

For most of these Home Medical Equipments however, a doctor’s prescription would be needed for them to be obtained.