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Pocket Series
About the Series
This series of highly-practical and portable pocket books
provide concise and reader-friendly guidance for medical
students and junior doctors across a variety of subjects for use
in a range of clinical settings.
Pocket On Call, 1E
Andrew Stewart
Pocket Clinical Examiner, 1E
Adam Barnett, Thomas Bannister
Pocket Essential Medical Equipment, 1E
Norbert Banhidy, David Zhang
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Pocket Essential
Medical
Equipment
Norbert Banhidy
and David Zhang
First edition published 2022
by CRC Press
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ISBN: 9780367747145 (hbk)
ISBN: 9780367745783 (pbk)
ISBN: 9781003159179 (ebk)
DOI: 10.1201/9781003159179
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To my grandfather
NB
To Louise, Evan and my parents,
Qinghua and Tusheng Zhang
DZ
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Contents
Preface ix
Acknowledgements xi
How to use this book xiii
List of abbreviations xv
About the authors xvii
Section I Resuscitation “ABCDE” equipment
Airway 2
Breathing 18
Circulation 36
Disability 56
Exposure 60
Trauma 62
Miscellaneous 74
Section II Specialty equipment
Cardiology 92
Gastroenterology 94
Neurology 100
Respiratory medicine 110
General surgery 118
viii Contents
Ear, nose and throat (ENT) surgery 126
Urology 140
Musculoskeletal medicine 148
Ophthalmology 158
Wound care 160
Index 181
Preface
Modern medicine would not be where it is today, were it
not for the innovations in medical technology and the
abundance of medical equipment available to healthcare
professionals. Depending on the specialty, the average
healthcare professional will use multiple types of medical
equipment to aid in the diagnosis or treatment of disease,
or the monitoring of patients’ health. Adequate knowledge
of the equipment, and its safe use, is therefore essential to
delivering effective and safe patient care. It is somewhat
surprising, therefore, that often healthcare professionals are
unfamiliar with the use (or even unaware of the existence)
of the medical or surgical equipment they may need to use,
right up until the point they are required to perform the
procedure.
To address this issue, this book aims to serve as an
illustrative guide for commonly used medical and surgical
equipment found on the wards, clinics and in A&E. We
hope this book will serve as a reference tool for medical
students and junior doctors alike, who may not have come
across the equipment before or are not familiar with their
exact indications and correct use. Using this book will
allow students and doctors to familiarise themselves with
the equipment before having to use them in a clinical
setting, thereby hopefully increasing readers’ knowledge and
confidence in subsequent clinical situations.
Given the almost inexhaustible list of medical equipment
in existence, certain items have had to be prioritised and
thus only a list of the most used every-day equipment are
x Preface
presented in this book. The book does not contain specific
surgical instruments used in the operating theatre, nor does
it aim to describe the use of large and often complex medical
devices such as ventilators or X-ray machines.
We hope this book will serve you well in preparation for
your exams or clinical rotations, and ultimately enrich the
experience of your journey through clinical practice.
NB and DZ
Acknowledgements
We would like to thank our senior publisher, Dr Joanna
Koster of CRC Press, for her invaluable role in guiding us
through the whole process from the book’s conception to its
publication.
We would also like to thank all the clinical teams at the
Royal London Hospital, Barts Health NHS Trust for
providing the equipment for the photographs.
We are grateful to London’s Air Ambulance Charity,
especially Mr Bill Leaning, for allowing us to take photos of
their trauma management equipment.
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How to use this book
This book is intended both for those who wish to
systematically learn about all of the equipment across
different specialties and those who simply want to use it as a
handy reference guide when on the wards.
The equipment is organised into chapters based on specialty
and body system.
Each medical equipment section is set in the following way:
1. A brief description detailing the equipment’s general
purpose and its components
2. A list of indications outlining the equipment’s most
common uses
3. A brief description of the equipment’s directions of use
4. A summary of cautions and contraindications to be
aware and ensure safe use
5. Finally, an accompanying photograph of the equipment
to facilitate learning
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