Covering your nose and mouth with a tissue when you cough or sneeze. Throw the tissue in the trash after you use it.
Washing your hands often with soap and water, especially after you cough or sneeze. You can also use alcohol-based hand cleaners.
Avoiding touching your eyes, nose or mouth. Germs spread this way.
Trying to avoid [...]
If you find a needle do not touch it. Used needles can be dangerous and can carry germs and other things that might make you sick.
If you are pricked by a needle, tell someone. You will need to see a doctor right away without delay, wash the area with soap and water, and a good disinfectant,
What [...]
a Doppler fetal monitor or Doppler fetal heart rate monitor is a hand-held ultrasound transducer used to detect the heart beat of a fetus for prenatal care. It uses the Doppler effect to provide an audible simulation of the heart beat. Some models also display the heart rate in beats per minute. Use of this [...]
Ear irrigation is the process of flushing the external ear canal with sterile water or sterile saline. It is used to treat patients who complain of foreign body or cerumen (ear wax) impaction.
Purpose
The purpose of ear irrigation is to remove earwax that is obstructing the ear canal or to remove a foreign object lodged in [...]
Are there any health hazards associated with laser plumes?
Medical staff and patients in hospitals and clinics can be at risk from exposure to laser plumes.
Health symptoms resulting from laser plume exposure include eye, nose, and throat irritation, nausea, vomiting, nasal congestion, chest tightness, abdominal cramping, general flu-like symptoms, and fatigue. These are short-term health effects [...]
A suture is a medical device that doctors, embalmers, and surgeons use to hold skin, internal organs, blood vessels and all other tissues of the human body together after they have been severed by injury, incision or surgery. They must be strong so that they do not break, non-toxic, hypoallergenic (to avoid adverse reactions in [...]