Lab Equipment Used For Routine Clinical Diagnosis

    Laboratories require various types of lab equipment to perform lab applications. Healthcare practices and medical research facilities use branded laboratory equipment and supplies to perform routine clinical diagnosis. The demand for medical equipment in practices would differ according to field of research and application requirements.

      Different Types of Laboratory Equipment for Different Applications

      Equipment used in routine lab applications serve various purposes such as to collect data, hold and analyze samples, heat or mix solutions, measure, and perform various other such tasks. Well-equipped clinical labs would have chemistry lab equipment, liquid handling equipment, and point of care blood analysis systems. Each piece of medical equipment has a regular and specific function.

      Chemistry Lab Equipment: A wide range of chemistry lab apparatuses including centrifuges, water baths, and dry baths are used for routine clinical diagnosis.

      Liquid Handling Equipment: A medical laboratory is supposed to analyze and process thousands of samples in a day. For this, a laboratory must have essential products such as pipettes, pipette tips, shakers, filters, beakers, stirrers, mixers, rotators and disruptors.

      Biology Lab Equipment: Microscopes are must-have item in every medical laboratory. They are used for routine diagnostic applications in hematology, microbiology, cytology, and pathology labs.

      Analyzers: Medical laboratory analyzers are indispensable in healthcare centers, hospitals, and medical facilities. Hematology analyzers, blood gas analyzers, immunoassay analyzers, and coagulation analyzers are essential to carry out different tests on blood samples as well as analysis of various clotting assays.

      Measuring Instruments: Measuring instruments used in labs include balances and scales, and spectrophotometers. Balances and scales are required for many weighing applications, from basic weighing to more advanced applications such as parts counting, density determination, pipette calibration, and so on.

      Laboratory consumables: Apart from specific laboratory equipment, reagents, controls, consumables are an indispensable part of lab supplies.

      For routine clinical diagnosis and treatment, physicians need access to lab equipment that ensures speedy results with a high degree of precision. Every piece of equipment purchased needs to be carefully evaluated for its usefulness. Clinical labs need to have access to high quality instruments and associated supplies. It is therefore important that they tie up with an established laboratory equipment supplier that can meet their requirements efficiently. There are suppliers that offer new as well as recertified equipment at competitive prices and making a decision means comparing their products and services to ensure you are working with the best.

Careers in Servicing & Maintenance of Medical Machines (2)

 We have introduced the two kinds of careers in servicing & maintenance of medical machines. Except the two kinds, there are three careers left. Now, we will give you the details of the three careers.

   Surgical Instrument Repair Technician
   A surgical instrument repair technician repairs and services precision surgical instruments for a hospital or clinic. Duties include polishing and sharpening medical instruments and repairing or replacing parts. A majority of a surgical instrument repair technician's time will be spent traveling to hospitals, but some hospitals create positions specifically for this type of service; that way a technician will always be on hand. To qualify for this position, an individual must be a high school graduate, be able to complete a training program for instrument repair and know how to use various tools, including hand tools, and a buffer.
Medical Equipment Preparer

   Medical equipment preparers help prepare medical equipment for physicians in an emergency or operating room. With this position, an individual has to prepare, sterilize and install all health care equipment. A medical equipment preparer needs to have knowledge of the equipment to ensure it is functioning properly and to understand written and verbal instructions. A medical equipment preparer also has to maintain a log for all equipment being used. To meet the criteria for this position, a high school diploma and on-the-job training are required.

   Radiology Service Engineer
   This position is similar to a biomedical equipment technician. The only difference is that a radiology service engineer only deals with radiology equipment and he must have an associate degree in electronics, engineering or biomedical technology. Duties for this position include giving support in radiology rooms and mammography facilities, which entails repairing and installation of mobile x ray machines, digital radiography equipment, c arms and digital imaging machines.

    The five careers can make the operation of the medical equipment more conveniently and also ensure the safety of the field of the medical equipments or instruments.

Proton Beam Therapy vs. X-ray Beams（1）

   The problem with X-rays as an energy source is that they're not easy to control. They have a low mass and a high energy, making it difficult to direct exactly where and how they interact with body tissue. Most body tissue doesn't absorb or block X-rays, so they just keep moving right through the body, releasing energy. When an X-ray(by mobile x ray machine or c arm x ray machine) enters the body, it emits a tremendous amount of energy at the point of entrance. That's why X-ray treatment leaves people with a tan at the treatment site -- their skin is receiving a lot of radiation. As the X-ray continues into the body, it continues to release energy. As long as the cancer tumor is somewhere in the path of the X-ray, it receives some of that radiation. But so does the healthy tissue all around it. The tissue damage that results from this type of radiation therapy can cause serious problems for the patient if the tumor is in a particularly sensitive area like the brain, the eye, the lungs, spinal cord or liver. It can cause irreparable organ damage. And for children, any tissue damage can be detrimental to their development. In order to limit the extent of collateral tissue damage, oncologists will bombard the tumor area with the lowest level of effective radiation.
      Proton-beam therapy can avoid this type of collateral damage. Protons are positively charged atomic particles, and they have tremendous energy but also tremendous mass. They're easier to control than X-rays: They slow down as they encounter body tissue. Protons can actually be set to release their energy at a specific point in body.
      For details of x ray beam, we will put up it later!