Medical Equipment Directory
Medical equipment and machinery include a wide variety of devices and instruments for diagnosing and treating medical problems. There are a number basic categories:
 Diagnostic equipment such as medical imaging machines help with diagnosing illness. Diagnostic equipment includes ultrasound, CAT-scans, MRI, PET, and x-ray machines.
Therapeutic equipment includes medical lasers, and LASIK surgical machines.
Life support equipment, to maintain a patient's vital functions, includes heart-lung machines, ventilators and dialysis machines.
Medical monitors keep track of a patient's medical state, and allow doctors and nurses to easily see how the patient is doing. They may measure blood pressures, EEGs, ECGs, and disolved blood gas.
Medical laboratory equipment helps analyze urine, blood and genes.
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