Information About Radiology
Category Reconstructive Surgery Typical Use Harvest split thickness skin grafts. Description A powered or manual instrument that harvests uniform thin slices of skin for split thickness grafting, commonly used in burn care, reconstructive surgery, and large wound coverage to provide donor tissue with predictable thickness and surface area. Dermatomes require careful adjustment of depth, speed, … Read more
Category Dermatology Diagnostic Typical Use Examine pigmented skin lesions and surface morphology. Description A handheld optical instrument combining magnification and polarized or nonpolarized light to visualize subsurface skin structures, pigment networks, and vascular patterns; used to differentiate benign from suspicious lesions, guide biopsy decisions, and monitor lesion evolution. Dermatoscopy improves diagnostic accuracy for melanoma and … Read more
Category Drug Delivery Typical Use Deliver small volume continuous infusions (e.g., vasoactive drugs). Description A compact pump that advances a syringe plunger at a controlled rate to deliver small volume, high precision infusions such as vasoactive agents, analgesics, or pediatric medications where accurate microdosing is required. Syringe pumps are commonly used in intensive care, anesthesia, … Read more
Category Neurosurgery Precision Targeting Typical Use Provide rigid spatial reference for intracranial procedures and radiosurgery. Description A rigid head frame affixed to the skull that establishes a three dimensional coordinate system to localize intracranial targets precisely for biopsy, electrode placement, or stereotactic radiosurgery, enabling submillimeter accuracy in neurosurgical interventions. Frame based stereotaxy requires preprocedural imaging … Read more
Category Analytical Laboratory Typical Use Identify and quantify molecules by mass to charge ratio for proteomics and toxicology. Description A high resolution analytical instrument that ionizes chemical species and separates ions by mass to charge ratio to provide molecular identification, structural information, and quantitative data used in proteomics, metabolomics, drug testing, and clinical toxicology. Mass … Read more
Category Diagnostic Testing Typical Use Evaluate syncope and autonomic dysfunction by controlled positional changes. Description A motorized table that safely tilts a patient from supine to upright positions while monitoring heart rate and blood pressure to provoke and document neurally mediated syncope, orthostatic hypotension, or autonomic failure under controlled conditions. Tilt table testing helps differentiate … Read more
Category Perioperative Care Typical Use Warm transfused blood to body temperature. Description Inline or cabinet blood warmers heat packed red blood cells and other blood products to near body temperature during rapid or massive transfusion to prevent hypothermia and associated coagulopathy. Blood warming devices are designed to maintain product integrity while delivering warmed blood safely, … Read more
Category Pulmonary Therapeutic Typical Use Deliver controlled thermal energy to reduce airway smooth muscle in severe asthma. Description A specialized catheter used in bronchial thermoplasty procedures to apply radiofrequency energy to medium and large airways, reducing airway smooth muscle mass and decreasing bronchoconstriction frequency in selected patients with severe, refractory asthma. The procedure involves staged … Read more
Category Renal Replacement Therapy Vascular Access Typical Use Provide high flow central venous access for hemodialysis or apheresis. Description A large bore, dual lumen central venous catheter placed in the internal jugular, femoral, or subclavian vein to enable high flow extracorporeal circulation for intermittent or continuous hemodialysis, continuous renal replacement therapy, or apheresis procedures. Dialysis … Read more
Category Hemostasis Typical Use Promote clotting at bleeding surfaces. Description Materials such as oxidized regenerated cellulose, gelatin sponges, collagen, or thrombin based products applied directly to bleeding surfaces to promote clot formation and control capillary or oozing hemorrhage when conventional ligation is impractical. Topical hemostatic agents are used in surgical fields, trauma care, and endoscopic … Read more