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What Is Audiometry and How Clinical Hearing Tests Work

How audiometry and clinical hearing tests work, from pure-tone to speech testing, plus the transducer, booth and calibra…

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Audiologist performing a tympanometry test on a patient with a handheld tympanometer probe

Medical Equipments,Diagnostic Equipment17 Aug

Tympanometers Explained for Middle Ear Pressure Checks

How a tympanometer measures middle ear pressure, what tympanogram types mean, and the probe, calibration and consumable …

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Clinician holding a video laryngoscope beside an intubation trolley in a hospital theatre

Medical Equipments,Diagnostic Equipment17 Aug

What Is a Laryngoscope and How Airway Intubation Works

A clear guide to what a laryngoscope is and how airway intubation works, plus the blade, light, standards and infection-…

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Surgeon wearing a head-mounted camera and headlight recording an open procedure from a point-of-view

Medical Equipments,Surgical Equipment16 Aug

Surgical Headband Cameras Used for Procedure Recording

How surgical headband cameras record procedures from the surgeon's viewpoint: resolution, comfort, sterility, connectivi…

8 min Read

Clinician using a direct ophthalmoscope to examine the retinal fundus at the back of a patient's eye

Medical Equipments,Diagnostic Equipment16 Aug

Ophthalmoscopes Used for Retinal Fundus Examination

A UK buyer's guide to ophthalmoscopes for retinal fundus examination: direct versus indirect types, key specs, standards…

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Patient wearing an ambulatory blood pressure monitor cuff and recorder on a belt during the day

Medical Equipments,Diagnostic Equipment14 Aug

Ambulatory Blood Pressure Monitors Explained Clearly

What ambulatory blood pressure monitors are and how 24-hour ABPM works, with buyer guidance on validation, cuffs, softwa…

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Gynaecologist using a video colposcope to examine the cervix during a colposcopy clinic examination

Medical Equipments,Diagnostic Equipment14 Aug

What Is a Colposcope and When Gynaecologists Use It

A UK procurement guide to colposcopes: how they magnify the cervix, optical versus video types, key specs, standards and…

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Clinician using a fibre-optic otoscope to examine a patient's ear canal and eardrum in an ENT clinic

Medical Equipments,Diagnostic Equipment14 Aug

Otoscopes Explained for ENT Clinical Ear Examination

A UK buyer's guide to otoscopes for ENT and general practice: how they work, diagnostic versus operating heads, LED illu…

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Surgical smoke evacuation wand capturing plume at the operative site with a multi-stage filter unit

Medical Equipments,Surgical Equipment14 Aug

Smoke Plume Filters Explained for Theatre Air Quality

How surgical smoke plume filters protect theatre air quality: the pre-filter, ULPA and charcoal cascade, airflow and fil…

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Clinician using a slit-lamp tonometer to measure a patient's intraocular eye pressure in an eye clin

Medical Equipments,Diagnostic Equipment14 Aug

What Is a Tonometer and How Eye Pressure Is Measured

A UK procurement guide to tonometers: how they measure intraocular eye pressure, the applanation, rebound and non-contac…

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Surgeon seated at a robotic surgery console controlling robotic arms docked to a patient in theatre

Medical Equipments,Surgical Equipment14 Aug

What Is Robotic Surgery and How Platforms Differ Today

What robotic surgery is and how platforms differ: master-slave consoles, robotic arms, docking, multiport versus single-…

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Scrub team applying a fenestrated surgical drape to build the sterile field around a patient in thea

Medical Equipments,Surgical Equipment14 Aug

Surgical Draping Systems Used for Sterile Field Setup

How surgical draping systems build the sterile field, comparing procedure packs, drape materials, fluid control and the …

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