Have you ever looked around your doctor’s office and checked out all of the gadgets and gizmos, also known asmedical equipment, which hangs on office walls? In walks the doctor who immediately uses a stethoscope to listen to your heart. Then comes an instrument to look in your ears. We are so used to seeing these types of medical equipment that we fail to realize what they do and how fortunate we are to have them.

Every doctor’s office and medical facility uses medical technology. Most hospitals have a countless number of machines and devices that equip nurses and doctors to better treat their patients. This medical equipment is used to alert the staff as to any abnormality that might threaten the life of the patient. And most hospitals have on staff a very important person, a Biomedical Equipment Technician (BMET) to oversee all of the hospital’s medical equipment to maintain it and keep it working in optimum condition.

Medical equipment is so diverse and used for so many diagnoses that to name them all would be impossible. During a general checkup by your family physician, a lot of medical equipment is utilized. Your height, weight and blood pressure are checked by modern medical equipment. Your blood is taken and if your doctor questions some of your numbers, then more medical equipment will be used. Perhaps an EKG, to measure your heart rate, will be done. If the doctor wants to look deeper into an area of your body, he might order an MRI, Ultrasound, CAT scan or X-Rays. In order to complete his order for these procedures, specific medical equipment is used to look inside your body to check for various health issues and diseases that the doctor may be concerned about.

The medical equipment field changes very quickly as it is rapidly advancing. And as time goes on, there will be even more cutting-edge technology. Medical equipment, used properly, can truly save your life.