Every day, doctors, nurses and other health care professionals use a large variety of medical equipment to diagnose and save lives. There are thousands of different medical devices to be found in any given hospital or clinic. Every piece of medical equipment, from simple needles to high tech imaging tools, is essential to the day to day running of a health care facility.

Medical Equipment

Everyday Use Medical Equipment

This is a blanket category that includes all the different tools and medical devices that doctors and nurses use every day during routine medical procedures. Many of these tools are simple, like needles, latex gloves, syringes and stethoscopes. Other everyday medical devices, however, are quite sophisticated. Today’s medical exam tables and weighing scales, while not technically high tech machines, are important and often quite complex tools that need their fair share of maintenance.

 

Diagnostic Equipment

Diagnostic equipment is any type of equipment whose main purpose is to help doctors detect and diagnose diseases. Some of the most commonly used pieces of diagnostic equipment include ultrasound machines, PET scanners , CT scanners , and MRI machines.

Therapeutic Equipment

Therapeutic equipment is equipment that is used after surgeries and other medical treatments to help patients recover and improve their health.

Devices like infusion pumps, which infuse the circulatory system of recovering patients with the nutrients and medicines their bodies need to get better; medical lasers and LASIK surgical machines.

Life Support Equipment

Life support equipment is equipment that is used to maintain a patient’s organs functioning when said organs have failed. Heart-lung machines, medical ventilators and dialysis machines.

Types of Medical Equipment