This document lists and describes various types of medical equipment and their functions:
- Stethoscope is used to check a patient's heartbeat. Syringes inject or remove liquids from the body. Stretchers transport patients.
- Other equipment includes hooks, curettes, tourniquets, pipettes, gags, slings, thermometers, and scalpels.
- Additional items are dressing trolleys, catheters, bandages, forceps, probes, drains, splints, scissors, cylinders, trays, bowls, and wheelchairs.
- The list concludes with crutches, thermometers, manometers, and vision charts used to measure things like temperature,
This document lists and describes various types of medical equipment and their functions:
- Stethoscope is used to check a patient's heartbeat. Syringes inject or remove liquids from the body. Stretchers transport patients.
- Other equipment includes hooks, curettes, tourniquets, pipettes, gags, slings, thermometers, and scalpels.
- Additional items are dressing trolleys, catheters, bandages, forceps, probes, drains, splints, scissors, cylinders, trays, bowls, and wheelchairs.
- The list concludes with crutches, thermometers, manometers, and vision charts used to measure things like temperature,
This document lists and describes various types of medical equipment and their functions:
- Stethoscope is used to check a patient's heartbeat. Syringes inject or remove liquids from the body. Stretchers transport patients.
- Other equipment includes hooks, curettes, tourniquets, pipettes, gags, slings, thermometers, and scalpels.
- Additional items are dressing trolleys, catheters, bandages, forceps, probes, drains, splints, scissors, cylinders, trays, bowls, and wheelchairs.
- The list concludes with crutches, thermometers, manometers, and vision charts used to measure things like temperature,
This document lists and describes various types of medical equipment and their functions:
- Stethoscope is used to check a patient's heartbeat. Syringes inject or remove liquids from the body. Stretchers transport patients.
- Other equipment includes hooks, curettes, tourniquets, pipettes, gags, slings, thermometers, and scalpels.
- Additional items are dressing trolleys, catheters, bandages, forceps, probes, drains, splints, scissors, cylinders, trays, bowls, and wheelchairs.
- The list concludes with crutches, thermometers, manometers, and vision charts used to measure things like temperature,
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Medical Equipment and Their Function
1. Stethoscope : to check the patient’s heart beat
2. Syringe : to inject or suck liquids or gases into the patient’s body 3. Stretscher : move the patient from the ambulance to the UGD room 4. Hook : is un instrument with a bent end used to hold structures apart 5. Curette : to clear the womb of a miscarriage patient 6. Tourniquet : to stem the blood 7. Pipette : used in the laboratory for sampling 8. Gag : to instrument that is placed betwen patient teeth to stop him from closing his mouth 9. Sling : as a support tool on the shoulders and hands, suffering ftractures 10. Thermometer : to measure the patient’s body temperature 11. Scalpel : to slicing or incising the network during operation 12. Dressing trolley : to put galipot, bowl, tray and all medical equipment 13. Catether : hose to help the patient urinate 14. Bandage : to cover the wound of the patient 15. Sling : for a broken hand bone 16. Foreceps : to clamping or holding objects 17. Probe : for exmination of pilse oximetry attached to the fingertips 18. Drain : to tube used for removing liquid from the body orside of operation 19. Splint : bamboo or papen mounted on people experiencingfractures of broken 20. Lister’s bandage scissors : a kind of bandage to protect the wound 21. Cylinder : to put tweezers, clamps and pliers that have been sterilized to remain sterile 22. Galipot : to cut body tissues for practical purposes 23. Tray : to put instrument of operation or other 24. Bowl : to put a water 25. Cheatle’s foreps : server as walker 26. Plain dissecting forceps : a kind of scissors and clamp 27. Suture scissors : serves to bring food or carry medicine for patient’s 28. Michael’s clip-removing forceps : server as walker 29. Michel’s clip : to unite the bones when dissected 30. Receiver (kidney dish) : to put the rubbish 31. Wheelchair : to sit and move around 32. Crutches : to help for walking 33. Lister’s curved sinus forceps : to hold and to put somathing 34. Trapeze : to help patient sit or stand 35. Glass mercury thermometer : to measure the patient’s temperature 36. Chemical dot thermometer : to check the patient’s temperature 37. Digital thermometer : to check the patient’s temperature 38. Electronic digital thermometer : to measure the patient’s temperature 39. Infrared thermometer : to measure patient’s temperature 40. Mercury manometer : to check the patient’s blood pressure 41. Aneroid manometer : to check the patient’s blood pressure 42. Snellen alphabet chart : to chech the patient’s sight 43. Snellen “E” chart : to check the patient’s vision