medical equipment
Hospital tools, devices
Medical equipment refers to devices, instruments, and apparatus used in healthcare settings for diagnosing, treating, monitoring, or preventing medical conditions.
The term encompasses everything from simple tools like stethoscopes and thermometers to complex machinery like MRI scanners and ventilators.
The hospital invested millions in new medical equipment for the cardiac unit.
Durable medical equipment, often abbreviated DME, specifically refers to items like wheelchairs and oxygen tanks that patients use at home.
- defibrillatorHeart-shocking medical device
- IV dripGravity-fed fluid administration
- dialysis machineDevice replacing kidney function
- stethoscopeMedical listening instrument
- prosthetic limbManufactured replacement for lost appendage
bedside manner · wheelchair · vital signs · pulse oximeter · nebulizer · laparoscope · walker · thermometer · hyperbaric chamber · operating table · sterile field · hemostat · otoscope · scalpel · autoclave · glucometer · forceps · surgical mask
- disability supportwheelchair, walker, crutches, braces, hearing aid
- medical aiddoctor, surgeon, hospital, clinic, ambulance service
- equipmentfirefighting gear, camping gear, climbing gear, outdoor gear, fishing gear
- donationsmoney, blood, charitable gift, clothes, gift
- capital assetsbuildings, machinery, land, vehicles, property
- crash siteswreckage, debris, emergency services, first responders, ambulance
medical equipmenthome remedies
Informal household cures
folk medicine · traditional remedies · herbal remedies · natural cures · faith healing
medical equipmentweapons
Tools for fighting
torture devices · armaments · munitions · biological weapons · chemical weapons