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What Is Telemetry Monitoring: Principles of Monitoring the Heart Activity
Telemetry monitoring is a common practice of observing the electrical activity of a patient’s heart, which involves watching and analyzing data received distantly from its source. For this purpose, special telemetry equipment is used, particularly a telemetry monitor, which is a kind of a portable box (transmitter) that is attached to you, and whose main advantage is monitoring the patient’s heart rate and rhythm distantly within the monitor’s transmitting range, allowing the patient get up and move around, instead of just being confined to the bed.
In the context of cardiac monitoring, telemetry monitoring system is very advantageous for many patients, and is particularly valuable for patients going through a physical rehabilitation process, without interfering into the process. Telemetry monitoring allows a patient, who has to move a lot in order to recover fast, to pursue the recovery effectively, leveling down the need for his/her healthcare team consisting of technicians and nurses continuously monitoring your heart rate & rhythm and informing your doctor about your progress to give up the ability to monitor the hospital patient’s heart activity. So, how does this practice work in real?
Laparoscopic Instruments for Minimally Invasive Surgeries: Access & Exposure Equipment vs. Surgical Instruments
Laparoscopic surgery, or laparoscopy, also called a keyhole surgery, minimally invasive surgery (MIS), or bandaid surgery, is a modern surgical procedure that involves operations, such as inspection or diagnosing a certain health condition or surgical treating the abdominal or pelvis cavity through small incisions using special laparoscopy equipment and instruments. Laparoscopic surgery is more popular in the medical practice as it is more advantageous than any open surgical technique, and unlike the latter it includes shorter recovery time, reduced hemorrhaging and pain due to smaller incisions (0.5-1.5 cm). And all this thanks to laparoscope, which is the main element in any laparoscopic surgery. There are two common types of laparoscopes encountered by surgeons:
- laparoscope with a telescopic rod lens system (attached to a video camera, single-CCD or three-CCD);
- digital laparoscope (a tiny charge-coupled camera is connected to the laparoscope’s end).
Electric Blanket: Reviews and Description
Electric blanket until the 1950s was called ‘a warming pad’ or ‘heated quilt’. In the US it is a blanket having integrated electrical heating, and it is placed above the top bed sheet. In other English-speaking countries the term ‘electric blanket’ refers to electric mattress pad placed under the bed sheet. Electric blanket is used to pre-heat the bed before sleep or keep it warm during use. The heating element or an insulated wire is inserted into the fabric. The temperature can be regulated with the control unit.
Electric heating blanket was invented in 1900s. It was big and bulky, and it did not resemble the ones we use today. Since 1920s electric blankets have been widely used in tuberculosis sanitariums. The patients were prescribed to spend a lot of time outdoors, including sleeping. That is why they needed something to keep them warm while sleeping outside.
All You Need to Know About Infant Warmers
A newborn baby experiences thermal instability after delivery. The temperature of mother’s womb is higher than the air temperature of the delivery room. It is vital to prevent the fall in infant’s temperature as it can even increase the mortality risk.
It is necessary to provide immediate infant warming right after delivery as a baby has four times bigger capacity to loss of heat than a grown-up. Its temperature can fall by 1-2°C over 30 minutes. If a newborn baby loses heat rapidly, it leads to a phenomenon called ‘cold stress’. Oxygen consumption and metabolism increase, and this can even lead to hypoxia. Powerful, safe, and controlled radiant warming reduces cold stress and prevents the baby from further negative effects.
Veterinary anesthesia machine
Inhalation anesthesia method is based on vapor or gas anesthetics inhalation. Filling the body with them is done by the anesthetics diffusion through the alveoli which depends on concentration, type of anesthetics, their solubility in blood and flesh, circulatory and breathing conditions.
Inhalation anesthesia is more controlled; it can be characterized by distinct anesthesia stages. Inhalation anesthesia can be produced by several methods, and, therefore, different veterinary anesthesia systems are used.
While holding open circuit anesthesia the anesthetic is inserted into animal’s lungs together with the air. The exhalation is done into the air ( Esmarch mask).
What Is Cardiac Monitor? How Does It Work?
The vast majority of cardiac monitors are electrical devices attached to a patient. The place where electrodes are placed is usually cleaned and shaved thoroughly. In some cases an arm cuff is used as well, when the blood pressure is monitored.
Such monitors provide a visual display of the patient’s parameters. Some of them are set to sound an alarm in case any of the parameters changes outside of the range that is determined by a physician.
There is a whole set of different parameters, including:
- electrocardiogram
- arterial blood oxygen saturation
- cardiac output
- intravascular pressures
- noninvasive blood pressure
- blood temperature
The equipment that is generally required for continuous monitoring includes the cardiac monitor and cables, pressure transducers and electrode patches, arterial blood saturation probes and a pulmonary artery catheter.
How to Treat Ventilator Dependent Respiratory Failure?
Respiratory failure is a condition when the lungs cannot release air (oxygen) into the blood. This can cause a high carbon dioxide level or low oxygen level, or both, in blood. As a result, the body’s organs cannot get oxygen-rich blood to function. The main symptoms of respiratory failure are shortness of breath, confusion and tiredness, rapid breathing.
Treatment for respiratory failure
Treatment for respiratory failure will depend on your condition. Acute (short term) disease is usually treated at a hospital with the use of intensive care units. Some chronic respiratory conditions (if they are not severe) can be treated at home.
Portable Massage Tables for Your Work Out Doors
Are you planning to do out-call massages? Then you should have a portable massage table. When choosing one, it is very important to consider some essential things like whether the clients are seen only in their individual homes or in offices, too. The choice of a table must be based on if a therapist is going to treat the clients with some special need (handicap, obesity and pregnancy).
Patient Monitoring: Remote and Multiparameter Devices and Their Manufacturers
Patient monitoring is always highly important in any emergency and operating room, as it has already proven its reliability in recovery rooms and during respiratory therapy, transportation and out-patient care, ambulatory and gastroenterology departments, sleep screening applications and at home.
The very first primitive patient monitoring began in 1625 with the work done by Santorio. It was measuring blood pressure and body temperature. The new technology developed after the World War 2. As for now, there is a vast number of different monitoring types.
Basically, a patient monitor consists of an analog front end, sensors, a human-machine interface, a processor, memory, power supply and communication interface circuits.
Anesthetic Vaporizers: Types and Medical Application
The primer purpose of a vaporizer machine is adding anesthetic vapor into the fresh gas flow. It’s done in such a way that the output delivers the set anesthetic agent concentration in the most accurate way. Soon fresh gas enters the inlet and gets divided into two pathways. Here things depend on the setting of the control dial. The fresh gas never comes into contact with the vapor, but still it gets fully saturated with vapor. At the exit the gas meets the chamber gas and they two mix. The output of the process depends on how much of fresh gas went through the pathways.
An anesthesia vaporizer machine is one of the most critical components of the whole anesthetic machine. It produces a predictable and controlled concentration of vapor in the gas that passes through the vaporizer.
