Click on the icons below for a detailed description of what it is and what it does.
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Stethoscope
What the doctors use to listen to your heart and lungs
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Otoscope
What the doctors use to look into your ears
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Thermometer
What the doctors use to find out how warm your body is
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Blood pressure cuff
Wraps around your arm and gives it a little hug to measure how the blood is flowing through your body
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Pulse oximeter
Goes on your finger and measures the amount of oxygen in your blood. It looks like a bandage with a red light in it.
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Wheelchair
Chair with wheels that helps you get around
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Medicine cup
A
small cup that nurses use to give you liquid medicine or pills
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Leads
Round stickers with wires connected to them that doctors will place on your chest or head to help record activity within your body
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Oxygen mask
Mask that goes over your mouth and nose to help you breathe. Sometimes there are tubes attached to the mask or there are tubes in your nose to help you breathe.
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Tourniquet
A
big rubber band that gives your arm a little hug and helps the nurses and doctors find your vein
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Anesthesia mask
A
clear, funny-smelly mask that goes over your mouth and nose and gives you medicine to make you sleepy
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IV
A small, clear tube that goes into your vein and gives you medicine or takes blood. A needle is on the end just to help get it in the arm and then the needle is removed and all that is left in your arm is a bendy-type straw
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PICC line
A
small, plastic tube that is inserted into a vein that gives your body medicine. It can stay in the body a lot longer than a IV.
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Port
A small, round object inserted under the skin in the chest area used to perform blood draws and give medicine.
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Catheter
A long tube that is used to remove urine from the body for testing purposes
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Tegaderm?
A
clear bandage that nurses will put over an IV or PICC lines to keep germs out
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Emla cream
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cream that is placed on an area where and IV is started; it helps numb the area
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J-tip
A
little plastic container with medicine that helps numb the area where and IV is started; it sounds like a pop can opening when activated
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