Operating table
It is a table on which a patient lies during a surgical procedure
Operating table
It is a table on which a patient lies during a surgical procedure
Portable Oxygen Concentrator
It is a medical device that assist people who have low level of oxygen in their blood. they are powered by plugging the device into an electrical outlet or by using a battery.
Steps of concentrator process
2. Compresses the oxygen
3. Takes out nitrogen from the air
4. Adjust the way the air is delivered
5. Delivers the purified air to the patient
Alcohol Swabs
It is used to disinfect the skin prior injection in order to prevent infections caused by bacteria on the skin being injected within the tissue.
They are individually packaged pads made of cotton and contain 70% isopropyl, tightly sealed in an aluminium paper bag to keep them sterile and prevent dryness.
It was proven to be a great disinfectant killing 47-91% of the number of bacteria on the skin.
Digital weight and height
It is a device that can measure the height and weight, It is very important to know the height and weight of a person.
Ideal weight for a person is 60Kg. Knowing a person’s weight will help them watch their diet if it is more than the recommended and also less than 40kg as an adult is not really recommended.
It is very important to know and monitor your BMI.
BMI is refereed to as Body Mass Index, it is useful to measure of overweight and obesity.
How an infusion pump works
Infusion is a method of putting fluids including drugs into the blood stream.
An infusion pump draws fluid from a standard bag of IV fluid and controls the rate of flow.
It provides accurate and continuous therapy, can use any size bag of IV
Fluids can be delivered at either very slow or fast rate