Thursday 21 December 2017

Some Common Medical Equipment Terms

The introduction of technology in the medical sector has been a groundbreaking move to improve the overall health of the world. Heart diseases can be detected easily, cancerous and non-cancerous tumors can be differentiated easily and kidney stones can be eliminated with minimally invasive surgeries. All this is possible because of the development of medical equipment and technology over the years, which has made it possible for people to have disease free lives or extend their lifespan just a little bit more. However, do we know what technique is required for a certain ailment? Here are a few medical equipment terms you should familiarise yourself with for any kind of future doctor consultation or check up.


MRI  

Magnetic resonance imaging or MRI is a technique used in radiology to generate images of the organs in the body for identifying diseases or ailments that might occur in the same. MRI scanners use strong magnetic fields, radio waves and field gradients to construct an image that is an ideal representation of the organ. It is mostly used to find out a cancerous tumour, especially cancer that occurs in the nervous system. The best hospitals in Delhi NCR implement MRIs and more than 25,000 MRI machines are used in the world.    

CT Scan

A computed tomography scan or a CT Scan is another scan that is used to locate diseases or ailments in the human body. The machine produces cross sectional images of specific areas that have been scanned, which is complemented by different angles of the area measured by X-rays. 

It is also known as CAT Scan and apart from medical uses it has also been implemented in scanning the interiors of mummified remains in archeology or to find out impurities in raw fossil fuels.


LASIK

Laser eye surgery which is also known as LASIK is comparatively newer to the other two terms and has helped people with optical diseases or just to improve visual acuity. It is mostly implemented by opthalmologists on people who need a permanent solution to wearing glasses all the time. It is a refractive surgery and is undertaken generally to reshape the eye’s cornea. The best eye hospitals in Delhi, Mumbai and other big cities in Delhi have LASIK treatment options and offer 90% plus chance of a successful surgery, making it one of the most dependable kinds of surgeries in the world.

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