Equipments Used to Monitor Our Health and Wellbeing

Posted by Yamini Mone on April 26th, 2018

Urbanization has resulted in depletion and destruction of trees and plants, resulting in environmental changes that affect our heart health, motor vehicles and factories add to this problem. Thanks to medical science and technology, today there are machines that can help diagnose, treat and monitor not just our heart health but also that of other organs.

Machines designed and built to be used in the healthcare sector have made the treatment of certain diseases more feasible and in many cases have helped the patients recover faster. It's not always the case that eating and sleeping right will cure us of our illnesses, in the past century or so the healthcare industry has immensely benefited from the advancements in the field of computer science and technology having integrated computer-based technologies to conduct a detailed analysis of our bodies.

Listed below are three such equipments, although these are mainly used to monitor our health, a healthy heart is an indication of our overall health.

The Holter monitor.

This is an ambulatory or portable battery operated cardiac health monitor that records and measures cardiac activity, also referred to as an ECG or an electrocardiogram. The observation is done for many days and the patient may be asked by the doctor to wear the monitor for about 24 to 48 hours or even longer to check for what is known a cardiac event, examples of such events are a suspected stroke or atrial fibrillation. Unlike event monitors, Holter monitors measure cardiac activity continuously and are also considered to be more effective.

Oxygen concentrator.

Oxygen concentrators are devices that supply oxygen via tubes through the nostrils. Generally, the percentage of oxygen content in the air is 21%, the remaining is mostly constituted by nitrogen. Concentrators help remove nitrogen, which leaves the air with 88-95% oxygen. Oxygen concentrators then deliver the gas to patients with the use masks or tubes. The unit used to measure the output of the concentrator is liters per minute or LPM.

This is recommended for people who have low levels of oxygen in their body, individuals suffering from cancer, heart and lung-related ailments. There are two different types of concentrators, the expensive but convenient portable ones, and the inexpensive but cumbersome non-portable devices.

Syringe Pump.

Also known as an infusion driver or pump, they are used to supply or deliver exact amounts of fluids at specific or particular intervals of time. The two different types of pumps are the two different types of pumps are withdrawal and infusion pumps. Pumps used to deliver smaller amounts of fluids at controlled pressures are called infusion pumps. Pumps that are utilized to extract samples of fluid automatically are called Withdrawal pumps. Syrige pumps have both pharmaceutical and medical applications. other additional concerns that one should look for are the features, applications, certifications, and power sources. They come with features such as battery backup, a control panel, pressure gauge, power cord and filter or strainer.

With constant developments in the field of science and technology, the healthcare sector is set to get better with more and more technology driver digital devices replace analog devices and give us more accurate diagnostic reports and better post-treatment results.