| The surgeons, the environment, and the location of the | | | | LCD Monitor/ Patient Monitor |
| surgery are all important factors for the undertaking of | | | | Hi-definition LCD screens are used in operation rooms |
| a successful procedure. Another important component | | | | today, providing surgeons with detailed, high-resolution |
| in this equation is the medical equipments. There are | | | | images of the procedure, even allowing doctors to |
| many essential medical devices used inside a surgical | | | | move images around the screen for convenience. A |
| room, but there are five basic machines needed in a | | | | patient monitor, also known as "Multiparameter," or |
| surgery. | | | | "Physiological Monitor" is an electronic machine |
| Sterilizer | | | | designed to display and analyze patient's vital signs for |
| Before anything else, the operating room, equipment, | | | | potential fatal cardiac conditions. |
| and the surgical instruments need to be thoroughly | | | | Anesthesia Machine |
| sterilized. This pre-surgical first step is an important | | | | Patients given a general anesthetic (to go be put to |
| procedure done before the operation begins to help | | | | sleep) during an operation needs the right amount of |
| avoid potential life threatening infections to patients | | | | oxygen, nitrous oxide, with an accurate concentration |
| under surgery. A low temperature plasma sterilizer | | | | of anesthetic vapor. The anesthesia machine, usually |
| sterilizes heat sensitive objects using gas plasma or | | | | cared by the anesthesiologists or nurse anesthetists, is |
| ionized gas. | | | | needed during surgery to provide a continuous-flow of |
| Surgical Light | | | | medical gases to keep the patient from regaining |
| Even with electronically controlled devices used to | | | | consciousness. |
| make a surgeon's job easier, it is still the doctor who | | | | Suction Pump |
| operates on a patient. Surgical shadow-less lamp | | | | Bodily secretions can form during surgery, such as |
| provision is crucial for a surgeon's ability to see clearly | | | | phlegm, mucus, and excess blood. Suction pumps |
| on the procedure at hand. Surgical lights need to | | | | found in any operating room are used to remove and |
| provide surgeons with bright, homogenous lighting | | | | drain any excess fluids found in the body that that can |
| during the operation that does not cast any shadows | | | | either block the visibility of a surgeon or clogged |
| that can affect visibility. | | | | passageways that can delay the procedure. |