Diagnostic Tool
Medical diagnosis is the process of analyzing a patient’s symptoms and signs in order to conclude which underlying disease or condition best explains them. Consequently, diagnostic tools will help your staff accurately analyze the conditions from which your patients may be suffering. Accurate and timely diagnoses will assist you to treat patients efficiently without having to carry out superfluous testing. This in turn will result in a more efficient and profitable clinical operation as well as a higher satisfaction level among your patients.
From this, you can see that choosing the appropriate diagnostic tools is an important factor in the eventual success of your clinic. You should make these choices after carefully analyzing the types of patients you presently see at your clinic. You should also consider how this may change over the future.
The diagnostic tools in this section include equipment that your patients may use at home for basic diagnosis. They also include more powerful tools that require medical training for safe and effective use. The latter are only for use by healthcare professionals and should not be sold to patients for home use.
Suggested Diagnostic Tool Products
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Digital Thermometer4 Products
A digital thermometer is a cost effective accessory for monitoring the health of family members that no household should be without. These thermometers use electronic heat sensors to display the temperature on a small LCD screen. You can normally take temperature readings in 3 ways - under the tongue, in the armpit or rectally. The third method is the most accurate as it is the closest measurement of core body temperature. Compared to mercury thermometers, a digital thermometer is inexpensive, extremely easy to use and provides an accurate reading in very little time.With a mercury thermometer, you have to wait for the mercury to warm up and rise to the correct level. Only then will it display the temperature. In addition to speed, digital thermometers also provide more accurate readings. This is a result of their more advanced technology. A digital thermometer will not break and spill mercury if it is dropped. Mercury is a highly toxic substance and spills in the home must be cleaned very carefully to avoid threats to the health of children and pets. With a digital thermometer, the temperature is easy to read off the LCD screen - no medical skill is required. When using the thermometer, we would however, advise cleaning the tip with soap and cold water before you insert it into the patient's mouth. Once you have finished taking the temperature, we would suggest washing and rinsing the thermometer once again before you store it away. Digital Thermometer Maintenance is simple - you only need to replace the battery periodically once it expires. If you have not yet tried using one of these thermometers, you owe it to your self to give one a try. We are sure you will be pleasantly surprised. -
Dynamometer2 Products
Dynamometers are used to measure muscle strength in a wide range of activities. Hand dynamometers, for example, are useful in measuring gripping and pinching strength. You can also use dynamometers to measure the strength of larger muscle groups using pushing, pulling and lifting tests. In selecting a hand dynamometer for use in your clinic, we suggest consideration of the issues below. An important factor in measuring gripping strength is the ability to measure strength in a wide range of gripping positions. The positions should range from a close grip to a wide one. Measuring gripping strength in this way produces more accurate results. When measuring pinching strength, it is again important to use a dynamometer that is capable of measuring strength in a variety of positions. In this case, you will ideally need one that is capable of measuring palmar, key and tip pinch strength. Again, this will result in a more accurate overall evaluation. -
Infrared Thermometer1 Product
A digital infrared thermometer can be used to control the risk of infection in workplaces, schools, religious services and other places in which large numbers of people may gather. These thermometers make it possible to quickly take the temperatures of large numbers of people. In most cases, an infrared thermometer can take a temperature reading in 1 second with a high degree of accuracy (+/- 0.1 degrees Celsius). This would be a degree of accuracy comparable to that of a regular digital thermometer. However, we would suggest caution in certain situations. For example, a digital infrared thermometer may not be so accurate when measuring the temperature of a shiny or reflective surface. However, you can use an infrared thermometer to take someone's temperature without getting physically close to the person and possibly jeopardizing your own health in the process. An infrared thermometer also has the advantage of being easy to use. You do not need to be a qualified medical practitioner to use them. Most of these thermometers allow you to take someone's temperature quickly by just pointing it at the forehead. For a more accurate reading, most of these thermometers allow you to read the temperature from the eardrum as well. You can also use some digital infrared thermometers to measure using a temporal artery as a measurement site. Most viral infections signal their presence via an elevated temperature. In situations in which someone may be asymptomatically carrying such an infection, an infrared thermometer is invaluable. It represents an effective tool for ensuring that your workplace or social event does not become a "super spreader" event.
