When it comes to basic equipment in the operating room and ICU, most practitioners will think of lights, beds, and towers. In the next few pages, I'll take a look at each of these in turn, as well as the current and future state of related ancillary equipment.
"Tower" is short for medical tower. If you search the relevant encyclopedia, you will get this introduction: tower is a modern hospital operating room essential gas supply medical equipment, mainly used for operating room oxygen, suction, compressed air, nitrogen and other medical gases such as terminal transfer. It is controlled by motor to raise and lower the equipment platform, which is safe and reliable; the balanced design ensures the level of the equipment platform to ensure the safety of the equipment; the drive of the motor ensures that the equipment operates quickly and efficiently. In fact, this description is very one-sided. Next, I would like to give a more comprehensive definition based on my experience.
Medical tower, is currently an essential basic equipment for hospitals. It mainly provides the fixing and positioning of relevant medical equipment, as well as the supply of medical gas and strong and weak electricity required by the relevant medical equipment. Widely used in hospital operating rooms, ICU.
In this definition. First of all the tower does not belong to the medical equipment, but in the medical practitioners and occupies a large cognitive degree, so with basic equipment to call.
Secondly, in terms of use, regardless of the design of the tower, there are no more than two main functions: first, to fix and position the relevant medical equipment. Please note that I have specifically used the verbs fix and position. To give two examples, such as the operating room anesthesia lifting tower, the anesthesia machine can be fixed in the tower, to ensure that the use of the process, the anesthesia machine is not randomly moving, and through the tower above the movement of the cantilever, you can position the anesthesia machine in the patient's head on the side of the side, to facilitate anesthesiologist's operation. Or some hospitals will be equipped with multimedia towers, the actual lifting tower on the fixed a display, through the lifting tower in the space on the movement, to locate the position of the display, to facilitate minimally invasive surgery; second, to provide the relevant medical equipment required for the supply of medical gases and strong and weak power supply. The same example of anesthesia tower, anesthesia machine use process generally need to use medical input gas (oxygen, air, laughing gas), medical output gas (anesthesia emissions), strong electricity (220V AC) and weak electricity (RJ45), in the past there is no tower, these supplies will be in the form of terminals or sockets are fixed in the operating room wall, now the application of the tower, will be on the wall of the wall of these supplies transferred to the Nowadays, the application of the hanging tower has transferred these supplies from the wall to the hanging tower, which facilitates the actual operation. So, the relevant medical equipment mentioned here will be different from the relevant medical equipment mentioned in the first feature, because some equipment does not necessarily require these supplies.
Finally, the need for towers is highest in the operating room and ICU, where more and more medical equipment and corresponding supplies are used. However, some departments are also equipped with towers as needed, such as the resuscitation room, the wake-up room, and the outpatient emergency room.