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Equipment and Supplies, Hospital

Medical Definition: Any materials used in providing care specifically in the hospital.
Guide Notes: covers wide range from furnaces to surgical dressings; DF: EQUIPMENT HOSP
Also Called: Hospital Equipment,Hospital Supplies
Equipment and Supplies, Hospital Categories.
Canadian Medical Guide Definition Absorbent Pads - Pads made of various materials used for personal hygiene usually for absorbing URINE or FECES. They can be worn as underpants or pants liners by various age groups, from NEWBORNS to the ELDERLY. Absorbent pads can be made of fluff wood pulp and HYDROGEL absorbent covered with viscose rayon, polyester, polypropylene, or POLYETHYLENE coverstock.
Canadian Medical Guide Definition Bedding and Linens - Articles of cloth, usually cotton or rayon and other synthetic or cotton-blend fabrics, used in households, hospitals, physicians' examining rooms, nursing homes, etc., for sheets, pillow cases, toweling, gowns, drapes, and the like.
Canadian Medical Guide Definition Beds - Equipment on which one may lie and sleep, especially as used to care for the hospital patient.
Canadian Medical Guide Definition Hospitals, Packaged - Hospital equipment and supplies, packaged for long-term storage, sufficient to set up a general hospital in an emergency situation. They are also called Packaged Disaster Hospitals and formerly Civil Defense Emergency Hospitals.
Canadian Medical Guide Definition Incubators, Infant - Electrically powered devices that are intended to assist in the maintenance of the thermal balance of infants, principally by controlling the air temperature and humidity in an enclosure. (from UMDNS, 1999)
Canadian Medical Guide Definition Patient Isolators - Equipment used to prevent contamination of and by patients, especially those with bacterial infections. This includes plastic surgical isolators and isolators used to protect immunocompromised patients.

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