Disposable Medical Consumable in Our Life

What will appear in our minds when mention medical consumable?

Medical supplies and equipments include syringes, needles, sutures, blood Infusion, catheters, medical gloves, gowns, masks, adhesives and sealants for wound dressing and other tools. Some of these consumables are often used in life. Let's talk about these medical consumables around us.

First aid kit is one of most important and common medical consumables. We will start with it.

What do you need in a first aid kit? There are different items, but a basic first aid kit may include the following:

- First-aid manual.

- Sterile gauze pads of different sizes and shapes.

- Rolled bandages in several sizes.

- Elastic triangular bandages

- Safety pins.

- Disposable sterile gloves.

- Splint.

- Pain relievers, such as ibuprofen and aspirin (never give aspirin to children)

It is also necessary to add safety pins and some medications (anti-diarrhea medication, laxative, hydrocortisone cream and etc.)  in the first aid kit if possible.

What other medical supplies that we will use in daily life?

Disposable syringe plays an important role in medical profession. The construction of syringes is not complicate. A plastic tube and a plunger combine together to form a simple pump, and the plunger can be pulled and pushed along inside tube which allows the syringe to take in and expel a liquid or gas through an orifice at the open end of the tube.

A good syringe should be produced in clean medical production workshop under strict quality control, the barrel and plunger should made from high quality polyethylene.

We often use syringes with disposable sterile needles. Safe and sanitary needles are an important guarantee for health. There are usually four different types of needles: rounds, magnums, flats and tights. 

The drip set formed by the combination of syringes and needles are widely used in hospitals and in our daily lives. The needle is glued with the syringe tip perfectly, there must be no dead space between them. At the same time it should be covered with cap to prevent bending. Disposable syringe with needle is designed to administer certain drugs like or certain other cardiac drugs in a very slow fashion. For diabetics these syringes with needles are indispensable, they need to use this medical tool to inject insulin every day. When buy disposable injection syringes in the pharmacy, we must pay attention to whether the product has a certificate CE or ISO, only qualified products will protect our health.