Medical supplies

Medical equipment, medical devices, and medical supplies are used to aid in the diagnosis, monitoring or treatment of medical conditions. Diagnostic equipment includes medical imaging machines, used to aid in diagnosis. Examples are ultrasound and MRI machines, PET and CT scanners, and x-ray machines. Therapeutic equipment includes infusion pumps, medical lasers and LASIK surgical machines. Medical monitors allow medical staff to measure a patient's medical state. Monitors may measure patient vital signs and other parameters including ECG, EEG, blood pressure, and dissolved gases in the blood. Medical laboratory equipment automates or help analyze blood, urine and genes. Life support equipment is used maintain a patient's bodily function. These include medical ventilators, heart-lung machines, ECMO, and dialysis machines. Surgical instruments are designed for performing specific actions of carrying out desired effects during a surgery or operation, such as modifying biological tissue, or to provide access or viewing it. Surgical instruments include tweezers, forceps, clamps, occluders, retractors, distractors, positioners, mechanical cutters (scalpels, lancets, drill bits, rasps, trocars, etc.), dilators and specula, suction tips and tubes, irrigation and injection needles, tips and tubes, tyndallers, scopes and probes including fiber optic endoscopes and tactile probes, carriers and appliers for optical, electronic and mechanical devices, ultrasound tissue disruptors, cryotomes and cutting laser guides.