Oxygen mask: A mask that covers the mouth and nose, and is hooked up to an oxygen tank. It delivers oxygen directly to the patient. Oxygen can also be delivered directly through a nasal catheter, a tube that divides into two smaller tubes that go into the nostrils.
Oxygen is a colorless, odorless and tasteless gas that makes up about 20 percent of the air we breathe (and at least half the weight of the entire solid crust of the earth) and which combines with most of the other elements to form oxides. Oxygen is essential to human, animal and plant life.
The chemical symbol for the elem...
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A Foley catheter is a thin bendable tube with a balloon on the end. The end of the tube and the balloon are pushed into your bladder to drain urine. While this tube is in the bladder, urine is drained from it right away. You may need this catheter for just a little while or for a long time. How long you need it depends on why you have it.
The bladder is a hollow organ that holds urine. When you are ready to pass urine, it travels through the urethra (a small tube) to an opening in the body. Urine is let out of the body through this opening. Why do you need it? You may...
Q: We are using anti-bacterial catheters and have had good success in reducing urinary tract infections (UTIs). We are interested in knowing whether there are "best practice" guidelines for securing devices for Foley catheters. The ones we have tried use either tape or some other type of adhesive, or they don't allow the catheter to be switched from one leg to the other without being replaced. Our staff has not been satisfied with any of the many devices we've tried. Do you have any recommendations?
A: We are not aware of any best practice guidelines for catheter securem...
Ryanair has rejected claims that oxygen masks deployed in the 737-800 forced to make an emergency landing on Monday evening failed to work.
Sixteen passengers on-board the flight from Bristol to Barcelona were taken to hospital with minor injuries after a sudden loss of cabin pressure forced it to make an unscheduled landing at Limoges airport.Arctic explorer Pen Hadow was among the 168 passengers on board flight FR9336. In an interview with BBC, Hadow described how passengers were terrified as the aircraft descended rapidl.“I would say some people thought we were going t...
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Babies grow quickly and parents love to keep track of height and weight of their growing baby. Baby weight scales of many brands are available in the market. The qualities to consider in the case of baby weight scales are safety, precision and durability.
One type of Baby weight scales come in the form of hanging dials with a seat hung from the hook of the balance. The seat secures the safety of the baby. A typical baby weighing scale (hanging dial type) has baby-hanging trousers attached at its...
Baby scales are used to measure breast milk and the weight of babies.
When baby arrives early or has medical problems, health care providers turn to the Medela Baby Weigh Scale for measuring breast milk intake. The baby is weighed before and after breastfeeding, and with a touch of a button, the Baby Weight Scale calculates the baby's intake. For small babies, the Baby Weight Scale can measure the difference of one-half teaspoon of breast milk.
Lack of weight gain in an infant should always be taken seriously. Be sure to check that your baby is being weighed properly. Weighing ...
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Consider two mountain climbers. These two mountain climbers go to climb a mountain and at one point they reach a 50m vertical cliff. One of the climbers is very good at climbing vertical cliffs and the other has never done it before. Should that climber, who has climbed so many cliffs before, go first, or should they stay at the bottom and try to push the other one up? How far can any of us push someone else up a cliff. Have you ever tried? And what about the climber who has never climbed a cliff before i...
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I'd like to share with you a moment I had while talking to someone online just a few days ago. I was talking to a young woman over in Canada who had a really amazing human story. But it wasn't her story that I wanted to share with you quite so much as the thoughts it led me to afterwards.
This young woman's story started some years back, I think she was eighteen at the time. Her family had an accident and she had lost both her parents and one of her siblings. Herself and her younger brother were all that were...
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Nevertheless, the industry is eager to demonstrate what can be done from a technical point of view to manage treatment processes more efficiently. At MEDICA 2008, numerous IT companies will present their cutting-edge solutions for implementing electronic patient records. There are already a number of successful projects underway in which hospitals work with referring physicians by sharing access to data from electronic patient records.
Compactness is in demand
Another trend, in ad...
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MEDICA, the world’s largest medical trade show, is once again in 2008 the central market platform for the medical equipment industry. Marking its 40th anniversary, this world forum of medicine is set to match the two previous years’ record numbers: from November 19 – 22, over 4,300 exhibitors from 66 countries will present their products on 118,300 m² (net).
Clearly structured, with each market segment assigned its own exhibition hall, MEDICA 2008 once again covers t...
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No longer just a place for patients to rest their heads before surgery or afterward in recovery, hospital beds are playing a more active role in helping caregivers to treat their patients. More sophisticated bed models incorporate features that can assist caregivers in getting patients out of bed, provide pulmonary therapy, sport built-in-scales, patient positioning features and more.
These new hospital beds can help make the life of a nurse or caregiver easier, are safer for both patient and care...
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Gearing up for a stay in hospital almost always, without fail or doubt lead to a stay in bed. Whether for one day or weeks at a time, the one constant thought other than getting better is how comfortable that hospital bed is going to be.
Many if not most hospital beds are uncomfortable, with bumpy mattresses, blankets that are too thin, beds that are too small or too high. The way a hospital bed feels will in many cases make a patient want to speed their departure from the hospital.
Manufacturers of these...
When you look at hospitals beds, for you the observer; well they are basically the same. For the person in that bed, they are not all the same. The electric hospital bed is probably one of the best things that ever happened to a sick person who needed to lie in bed for long stretches of time.
These new form of hospital beds come in different sizes, just like the regular beds. These are twin, full, queen, dual and king size beds. The beauty of these beds is the fact that they are adjustable and of course very comfortable. The electric beds have a control panel which helps you as the pati...
Hospitals are places where any sort of illness can be cured and where patients are monitored as they recover. Comfort and convenience, aside from all-important sanitation, are factors that are especially important to the patient’s recovery. There are various hospital tools and equipment that aid the medical staff in providing wellness to their patients. One type of such equipment is the hospital bed.
Adjustable hospital beds can help make for a worthy, comfortable, and relaxing hospital experience. As compared to the olden days, hospitals these days employ adjustable hospital beds t...
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When a patient is being diagnosed and treated, the various laboratory tests performed during the diagnosis play a vital role in it. The accurate diagnostic and therapeutic decisions depends on the accuracy of these test results. To ensure the maximum accuracy proper patient preparation, specimen collection and handling are necessary. Precision of these results depends on the purity of the specimen and use of proper specimen collection equipments.
All lab & health care personnel should follow proper...
Every health professional is well aware of Littman Stethoscope as a quality brand of stethoscope. Everyday, more and more doctors and nurses are using the Littman Stethoscope over other brands.
One of the chief use of the Littman Stethoscope is to listen to the heart beats of a medical patient. For example, diagnosis of valvular heart disease can be made by using a littman stethoscope to listen for heart murmurs. In practise, the selective amplificator found in Littman Stethoscopes improves the stethoscope performance and has its place in everyday bedside practice, especially in depart...
Digital stethoscopes are computer aided products which can read sound, vibration, or acoustic signals. Digital stethoscopes can store sound and this sound can be played again and again. The stored sound can be send to another colleague in case you want his opinion. Digital stethoscopes are often used by veterinarians.
There are different types of digital stethoscopes such as the DRG Echo amplified digital stethoscope, Littmann electronic stethoscope, and web based remote digital stethoscope.
A DRG Echo amplified digital stethoscope can switch easily between three modes of operation...
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Health insurance is incredibly important. It can save you from financial ruin if you were to become seriously ill or injured. Most people realize how important medical coverage is but for many people it is just too expensive. With approximately 47 million uninsured people in the United States there are a lot of people that would benefit from being able to find low cost medical insurance.
One of the most inexpensive options when it comes to medical coverage is an HMO. An HMO or health maintenance organizatio...
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Medical alert alarms are systems designed to alert someone in the case of a medical emergency. The most common usage of these alert alarms are when someone has fallen or injured themselves in their homes and cannot reach or use the phone to call for assistance. That is where these medical alert alarms do the most good. It allows an individual who stays in their home alone to have the assurance that if something should happen where they were unable to access the phone, they could summon help by the press of a bu...