BMET: Hospital departments and Medical Devices

Module 7

What is an ED (Emergency Department)

A fast-paced hospital unit that provides immediate care for patients with urgent, life-threatening, or severe medical conditions.

What is an ICU (Intensive Care unit)

A specialized environment designed for critically ill patients who require constant monitoring and advanced medical care

What is an OR (Operating room)

A sterile environment where surgical procedures are performed by a specialized medical team

What is a PACU (Post-Anesthesia Care Unit)

A specialized area in a hospital where patients are closely monitored as they recover from anesthesia after surgery or procedures

What is the Endoscopy Department

Department dedicated to performing procedures that use specialized flexible scopes to visualize and treat conditions inside the gastrointestinal (GI) tract or other internal organs

What is NICU (Neonatal intensive care unit)

a specialized area in a hospital that provides critical care for premature or ill newborns

What is L&D (Labor and Delivery unit)

A hospital unit specializing in the care of women during childbirth, including labor, delivery, and immediate postpartum care

What is a hospital nursery

A unit that provides care for newborns immediately after birth, ensuring their health and safety while they adjust to life outside the womb

What does a Level I (Well-baby nursery) do? What equipment?

• Provides basic care for healthy, full-term newborns who require routine monitoring, feeding, and diapering.

• Common equipment includes: bassinets, infant warmers, vital sign monitors, and hearing screening devices.

What does a Level II (Special Care nursery) do? What equipment?

Offers intermediate care for babies born prematurely (32+ weeks) or with mild health issues, such as jaundice or feeding difficulties.

• Includes: phototherapy lights for jaundice treatment, nasal cannulas or CPAP machines for mild respiratory support, and infant feeding pumps.

What does a Level III (NICU) do? What equipment?

Equipped for critically ill or very premature newborns, providing advanced medical care.

• Includes: incubators, mechanical ventilators, ECG monitors, infusion pumps, and blood gas analyzers, as well as specialized tools for surgeries or emergency interventions.

What are the Medical Surgical Units (Med Surg Units)

Hospital departments that provide care for adult patients recovering from surgery or managing a wide range of medical conditions

What are the General nursing floors?

Hospital units that provide routine care for patients with a variety of medical conditions who do not require intensive or specialized monitoring.

What is a hospital step-down unit?

Transitional care areas for patients who require more monitoring than a general nursing floor but less intensive care than an ICU

What are the hospital dialysis units?

Specialized areas where patients with kidney failure receive dialysis treatments to remove waste, toxins, and excess fluids from their blood

What are the hospital laboratories?

Critical facility where medical tests are performed to diagnose, monitor, and guide treatment for patients

What are the two types of Diagnostic equipment?

Clinical diagnostic equipment and Laboratory diagnostic equipment

What are Laboratory diagnostic equipment?

Equipment that’re used in a lab by specialists to do more detailed and complicated tests, like studying blood for diseases or analyzing DNA.

What are Clinical diagnostic equipment?

Equipment that’re used directly with patients, often at their bedside or during a visit, to quickly check things like blood sugar or heart rate

What are some medical equipment you can find in General Nursing Floors?

• Feeding Pumps

• Infusion Pumps

• SCD Units 

• Vital Sign Monitors (portable Patient monitor measuring SPO2, NIBP, and Temp) 

• Thermometers

• Patient Scales

• Glucometer 

• Patient Bed

  • EKG Machines

What are some medical equipment you can find in Intensive Care Units?

• Patient Monitors

• EKG Machines

• Bladder Scanners

• Defibrillators

• Ventilators

• Infusion Pumps 

• IABP

• Blood Warmers

What are some medical equipment you can find in Operating Rooms?

• Anesthesia Units

• Heart Lung Machines

• Video Towers

• Surgical Lights (overhead and surgical headlights)

• Surgical Lasers

• Auto tourniquet Units

• Surgical Robot

• Sterilizers

• OR Tables (Surgical Bed)

• SCD Units

• Electrosurgical Units

• X-ray (C-arms)

• Patient Monitiors

• Defibrillators

• Blood Warmers

What are some medical equipment you can find in Labor and Delivery/Nurseries?

• Patient Monitors 

• Scales

• Incubators

• Radiant warmers

• Medical Ventilators

• X-ray Units

• Thermometers

What are some medical equipment you can find in Radiology?

• CT Scanners

• Mammography Units

• Linear Accelerators

• MRI Scanners

• X-Rays units

• Patient Monitors

• Scales

  • Thermometers

What are some medical equipment you can find in Laboratories?

• Microscopes

• Hematology analyzers  

• Blood gas analyzers 

• Chemistry analyzers 

• Histology Equipment

• Centrifuges