Types of Home Health Care Equipments
For maintainace of personal health care, home
health care equipments play a very important role. They are responsible
for letting people get directly involved in their own health care. The
home health care equipments are becoming more and more popular
because they are designed specifically for home use.
They provide lot of convenience and are user friendly in nature. In other
words home health care equipments
can also be called as smart devices because of their innovations which
include monitored and wireless services. Nowadays home health care equipments
are fast catching up among patients because of its reduced costs and easy
use. Patients which need strict monitoring for diseases now can monitor
themselves from the comfort of their own homes, instead of relying on
the hospital devices. So the home health care equipments give necessary
warnings and signs concerning health of the patients, and therefore they
can monitor their health themselves. So the home health care equipment
provide with the most effective and efficient method of personal health
care.The customer demand for the home health care products has been steadily
on the rise over the number of years. To cater the medical needs of the
consumer more and more home health care equipments are being
produced and designed in the market. The number one suppliers of the home
health care equipments are medifare.
The different home health care equipments provided by medifare
are:
Chairs: It provides with four different varieties of
chairs as home health care equipments, they are:The four chairs are hip
chairs, lift chairs; geriatric chairs, seat and commode assist chairs.
They have features like fully padded ottoman, battery back up, heat option,
massage options, head covers and recline positions. But different features
change with different kinds of chairs.
Diabetic health care equipments: Diabetic health care
equipments include glucose monitors, test strips, lancets and sharp containers.
The glucose monitors help in (type one) diabetes and they help and preventing
serious complications such as kidney disease, heart diseases, strokes,
amputations. The procedure for glucose monitors involve self monitoring
of the blood glucose levels in the body as required.
The different types of glucose monitors are:
Accu-check advantage: with this monitor, you can get
accurate results in just forty seconds. You can store the results, the
date and the time in memory of the monitor.
Accu-check voice mate: with this monitor, no internal
cleaning is necessary, you get a voice prompt that guides you step by
step through testing.
Accu-check complete: with this monitor, you can record
your carbohydrates, insulin, and stress with the blood sugar. It has a
thousand value memory which helps you store time, date and results.
Bayer glucometer DEX: with this monitor you can download
your result in the computer. It has a hundred test memory, it has a ten
test cartridge which opens and handles individual test strips.
Bayer glucometer elite XL: with this monitor, you can
do, normal blood sugar testing without pushing any buttons. It shows up
to 120 stored results and their average time and date.
Life scan one touch basic: with this monitor, the blood
sugar result is displayed in 45 seconds. It has a seventy five test memory,
with date and time of the test. The main advantage of this blood glucose
monitor is that it has testing capabilities in English, Danish, Dutch,
French, German, Russian and many more.
Life scan one touch sure step: with this monitor, the
results are displayed in as little as 15 seconds. It also has a touchable
test strip. It has one fifty test memory with date and time.
Abbott exac tech: The basic feature or advantage of this
monitor is that it is designed to be very affordable in nature, and the
benefit is that it never requires any calibration.
Abbott precision pen: with this monitor, you require
up to 2/3 percent less amount of blood. It is very light handed and very
light weight monitor. It has a touchable test strip and allows second
blood sample application. it displays the blood glucose results in 20
seconds.
Abbott medisense precision PCx: for accurate display
of the blood sugar in the body the requirement of the blood should be
3.5 micro liters. The main advantage of this monitor is that it can store
up to 4000 test results, which can be easily viewed later for reference.
It has an ergo dynamic design which is handy in useWound care:
The different home health care equipment companies providing different
woud care equipments are:
Bard: They provide with biolex wound cleanser, natural
care gel, special care cream, bard protective barrier, sorbex, vigifoam,
special care moisture barrier ointment, double guard skin protectant,
bard absorption dressing any many other equipments.
Coloplast: The COM feel hydrocolloid dressing help the
wound to heel without being disturbed, the advantage here is that it can
be worn during showering and at the time of bathing.The Seasob dressing
can cope with very heavy wounds; it is really a relief for the sensitive
skin.The Biatain copes up with huge amount of pain and retain the liquid
if exposed to pressure. This foam dressing is also available in combined
version of hydrocolloid dressing.
Conmed: It provides with the bandage roll dressing which
can be easily cut to fit the site, and can also be used to wrap up. It
also provides with the borderless dressing which can be affixed by tape.
Deroyal: It provides with aqua gauze, aquasob, derma
net, fluftex, multipad, procol, sofsob,episeal,stretch net theraskin,wound
care kits and much more.These were some of the home care equipments provided
by medifair for different personal needs. With advancement and innovation
many new types of equipment are entering the market like tooth brushes
which will be able to check blood sugar level and bacteria level of a
person while brushing. Other soon to launch device is heart monitor, which
will be able to determine heart rate of a person with the help of computer,
which can be later transmitted to the doctor with the help of internet.
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