Care and maintenance of a phototherapy incubator
Phototherapy incubators are medical equipment designed to manipulate the newborn without removing him from the incubator, allowing other actions involving: isolation, oxygen supply and monitoring of vital functions, as well as applying phototherapy, where light emitted by special lamps is used, to treat neonatal jaundice, and thus reduce the effects of neonatal hyperbilirubinemia.
Infant heater and infant incubator: what are their differences?
An infant warmer is specialized equipment used to provide newborns with a comfortable warming area that maintains their body temperature at 36 to 37 degrees, thus providing a warm and cozy environment that helps them maintain their body temperature.
Child phototherapy: can it bring complications?
Although infant phototherapy treatment is the recommended solution when newborns present a severe jaundice, which can be caused by various specific situations, this treatment has some effects in patients, so it is essential the supervision of medical personnel, in order to assess and intervene before these possible complications.
Neo-Natal Incubator And Different Types Of Phototherapy
This type of device is intended to offer the full-term or premature newborn a warm and safe environment, where its vital signs can be monitored, to maintain a temperature that keeps it stable; in some cases when the blood of the baby and the mother are different, jaundice occurs in the newborn, needing special attention, through phototherapy, and all KALSTEIN incubators are conditioned for this.
Photo therapy incubators and neonatal jaundice
The phototherapy incubators are medical equipment used to provide a controlled environment to newborns, whether premature or full term, to undergo phototherapy, a therapeutic measure in which light emitted by special lamps is used to treat childhood jaundice, and thus reduce the effects of neonatal hyperbilirubinemia.
How is a phototherapy incubator used?
A phototherapy incubator is a specialized medical team that provides optimal conditions for the care of newborns who are not prepared for extrauterine life, and who suffer neonatal hyperbilirubinemia, clinical picture that leads to a condition known neonatal jaundice. This type of incubators have units of phototherapies, equipment composed by specialized lamps that allow to apply light therapy to treat hyperbilirubinemia, in addition to provide life support, isolate and provide heat to newborns.
Ultrasound scan: characteristics and types
An ultrasound scanner is a medical device that allows images of most soft tissues to be obtained using ultrasonic waves. This instrument allows obtaining diagnostic images from echoes obtained by the emission of ultrasound waves (the most common).
How is an ultrasound scanner used?
An ultrasound scanner is a specialized medical device that uses ultrasonic waves, i.e. waves with frequencies above the human ear threshold (more than 20,000 cycles per second or 20 kHz) to obtain images of most soft tissues. This instrument provides diagnostic images from the echoes obtained by the emission of these waves.
Care and maintenance of an ultrasound scanner?
Ultrasound scanners must be maintained to be handled correctly, so care must be reasonable by inspection, sterilization or disinfection, as necessary. Failure to comply with the care and maintenance of the equipment can cause difficulties in the analysis of the same, showing undesired and erroneous results, causing irreparable damage of the equipment.
Ultrasound scan: there are risks in its use
An ultrasound scanner is a medical device that uses ultrasound waves to obtain diagnostic images. These waves are generated by a device called a transducer, which in addition to producing the ultrasound waves is also able to detect the echoes reflected by the ultrasound, thus producing images of the tissues and organs.