| Looking through a first aid kit, or even a child's "doctor | | | | monitors. These machines monitor patient's vital signs |
| set," you might think you know what doctors use on a | | | | and emit audio warnings when something changes for |
| daily basis. You will find Neosporin, Band Aids, Tape, | | | | the worst. These monitors are used during surgeries, |
| and maybe even Aspirin. What you might be surprised | | | | recovery and in any trauma situations. |
| about though is how off those kits really are. Nurses, | | | | Another common instrument in hospitals is the EKG |
| not doctors, use most of those items; many of | | | | machine. If you have ever stayed an extended period |
| doctor's essential tools cannot be carried in an | | | | of time, you were probably hooked up to one of these |
| 1800's-style small town midwife bag. | | | | machines. Over a certain period of time, these |
| Family practitioners often use otoscopes and | | | | machines record the activity of the heart, and |
| ophthalmoscopes to check the ears and eyes, and | | | | measure for an abnormalities or weaknesses in the |
| that little patella hammer is still used to test that | | | | heart's rhythm. |
| famous knee-jerk reaction, but many doctors have not | | | | Much to your surprise, the blood pressure monitor is |
| used these instruments since early residency in | | | | also a very valuable tool for a doctor. One of the first |
| hospitals. | | | | indicators of problems can be a drop or rise in blood |
| While a specialist's tools are very diverse, ranging from | | | | pressure, and these monitors give the doctors ample |
| MRI machines, to surgical tools, some common doctors | | | | warning time to correct the situation before anything |
| tools are simply those machines you find in any | | | | too detrimental occurs. |
| hospital room. | | | | One of the few tools that you will find in your childhood |
| Any reputable doctors office or first aid center will | | | | doctor's kit that is actually quite accurate is a |
| surely have an AED machine. Also called an | | | | stethoscope. Doctors and nurses use these on a daily |
| Automated External Defibrillator, these machines are | | | | basis to accurately measure the patient's pulse. While it |
| used to get the blood flowing in the event of a heart | | | | is possible to feel a pulse without a stethoscope, the |
| attack; they are also the alternative choice to CPR. | | | | technology of this tool is still very valuable to doctors, |
| In hospitals, you are likely to see hundreds of patient | | | | nurses, and your child's play-acting. |