Orthopedics - Medical Devices in South Africa

Surgical Instruments
A variety of tools which serve the surgeons while operating.

Wheelchair
Chair attached to large wheels for indoor or outdoor transportation of patients or individuals with impaired walking.

Dressing
An adjunct used by a person for application to a wound to promote healing or prevent further harm.

Bandage
A bandage is a piece of material used either to support a medical device such as a dressing or splint, or on its own to provide support to the body.

Adhesive Tape
Sticking tape made of natural, semi-synthetic or synthetic fibers.

Surgical Light
Light that illuminates the surgical site, for optimal visualization of small, low-contrast objects at varying depths or through small incisions.

Body Composition Scale
Physiologic analyzers and scales which assess human body fat composition. These devices may determine body composition based on fat / fat free two component methods, or on several component methods.

Instrument Tray
Flat open container for carrying and storing sterile surgical instruments.

Sharps Disposal Unit
Puncture-resistant container used to dispose sharp objects used in medical treatment and procedures.

Cable/Lead
An electric cable that delivers electricity to medical devices and equipment.

Hypodermic Syringe
Small-caliber plunger syringe that administers liquids through a hollow needle beneath the skin.

Patient Transfer Board
Board that helps in transfering the patient between two close surfaces.

Cane
A device used by people to facilitate balancing while walking.

Mobile Radiographic Unit
Radiographic unit that includes a manually driven or motor-driven wheeled cart that transports an x-ray generator, an x-ray tube and tube stand, collimators, and a film cassette storage drawer.

Blood Warmer
Warming unit for in-line heating of banked blood, blood products, and intravenous solutions from about 4 degrees Celsius to near body temperature before infusion.

Patient Hoist
Transfer lifts and track-mounted patient lifts.

Bone Densitometer, Ultrasound
Bone densitometers using ultrasonic measurements to assess bone density, usually at the calcaneus or patella. Patients are not exposed to radioactive X-rays.

Hospital Bed
Adjustable electrically controlled bed.

Power Exam Table
Treatment and examination tables with height and position adjustments.

Manual Exam Table
Treatment and examination tables with height/position adjustments.

Exam Light
A high power lamp intended for illuminating the examined area. Sometimes used for various small operations and other medical purposes.

Bedside Scales
Bedside scales that weigh the patient by lifting them from their bed.

PACS Workstation
Workstation that processes and stores digital images and data taken by one or more diagnostic imaging systems, as well as computed radiography, computed tomography, magnetic resonance imaging, and ultrasound scanners

Perioperative Management Information System
Information system that provides clinical and administrative information connected to the perioperative process, including preoperative evaluations and documentation, intraoperative documentation, and postoperative nursing assessment and pain monitoring.

Mobile Radiographic/Fluoroscopic Unit
Radiographic/fluoroscopic unit typically includes two wheeled carts, one supporting the C-arm and the control console and the other holding display monitors and image processing and recording devices.

Sling Scales
Bedside scales that weigh the patient by lifting them from the bed, similar to the way a patient lift does.

Spinal Image-Guided Surgery Stereotactic System Software
Software that operates computer-assisted spinal surgery systems and controls their functions.

Wheeled Walker
Walker with four- or five-leg, stiff, frameworks with wheels to assist patients walk. Wheeled walker is intended to facilitate users' ambulation

Meniscus Knife
Surgical knife for cutting the crescent-shaped disks of fibrocartilage attached to bones during orthopedic procedures.

Argon Coagulator
Electrosurgical units capable of delivering argon gas for coagulation purposes.

Electromagnetic Blood Flow Detector
Electromagnetic blood flowmeters measuring blood flow in vessels after various surgical procedures.

Laser Blood Flow Detector
Laser blood flowmeters using Doppler principle from laser source.

Practice Management System
Data management information systems for physician's office and clinics.

Video Endoscopy
A video system used during endoscopic procedures.

Intermittent Compression Unit
Compression devices, intermittent or sequential, for treatment of poor circulation.

Motorized X-ray View-box
Motorized viewboxes for loading X-ray sequence.

Endoscope Light Source
Fiberoptic light sources for endoscopes.

Radiographic Photospot Camera
Adapted motion-picture camera used to take images directly from the output phosphor of the image intensifier.

Mobile X-ray
Mobile radiographic units.

Voice Recorder
Digital system for dictating and transcribing medical reports and records.

Passive Motion Exerciser, Limbs
Exercisers for continuous passive motion of patient's limbs.

Manual Wheelchair
User and/or attendant operated manually propelled wheelchairs.

Bone Densitometer, Dual Energy
Bone densitometers, dual energy, isotope or X-ray tube. (DEXA)

Bone Densitometer, Single Energy
Bone densitometer using isotope of X-ray radiation.

High Resolution Medical Video Monitor
High resolution monitors intended for use with various medical imaging techniques.

Cryogenic Storage System
Containers to store tissues and biological materials such as skin, bone etc

Airborne Radon Bath
A device for Air-Radon medical procedures.

Blood Flowmeter
Blood flowmeter for internal calculation of blood flow electromagnetically.

Analgesic Stimulator
Spinal cord electrical stimulator that administer stimuli to alleviate pain.

Imaging Table
Suitable table for performing patient imaging procedures.

Implant Delivery Kit
Prepackaged collection of devices, instruments, and supplies needed to insert implants in appropriate positions according to the planned use.

Spatula
Instrument that is used to remove cells or tissues from a surface or cavity, spread materials on a surface, or mix them.

Endoscopic Teaching Attachments
Devices used alongside the eyepiece of a fiberoptic endoscope to send images of the endoscopic procedure to a second eyepiece.

Patient Transfer Stretcher
Mobile hospital stretcher that allows hospital personnel to atraumatically move a patient without altering the patients body position or lifting, rolling, or dragging them.

Operating Microscope Video Image Processor
Video image processor that takes and processes electronic images from an operating microscope and send the images to peripheral devices such as video monitors, VCRs, still-disk recorders, and video printers.

Aerobic Exerciser
An excersise machine that facilitates increasing the heart beat through physical activity

Intravenous Hanger
Hanger to suspend intravenous fluid delivery containers.

Patient Transfer Aids
Aids that make transfering a diabled person simpler that require partial or total assistance when going to or from a bed, stretcher, operating table, wheelchair, or other location.

Walker/Chair
Device that is a framework that combines a standard walker with a seat.

Radiographic/Fluoroscopic System
Radiographic/fluoroscopic system that consists of a number of units that is used in various diagnostic procedures.

Orthopedic Internal Fixation System
A system used in surgical implementation of implants for the purpose of repairing a bone.

Water-Jet Surgical Unit
Surgical unit that performs surgery using jets of high-pressure water or water solutions.

Nerve Fiber Ablation System
Radio-frequency therapy system used for selective excision of nerve pain fibers.

Skull Clamp
A device used to clamp the patient's skull to hold head and neck in a particular position during surgical procedures.

Vascular Clip Applier
Vascular clip applier that administers small atraumatic vascular clips for blood vessel ligature during a single surgical procedure to cease or prevent bleeding.

Drill Guide
Device that directs the location of the drill hole and protects the surrounding tissue at the same time.

Gigli Saw Guide
A surgical instrument used in skull surgery.

Laminectomy Retractor
Instrument for fastening back the margins of a surgical wound in order to remove a vertebral posterior arch.

Intervertebral Disk Rongeur
A surgical instrument used in intervetrebral disk surgery.

Drug Delivery Iontophoresis Unit
Device for minimum-access treatment of diseases by introduction of soluble drug ions into the body through an electric current.

Tendon Approximator
Approximator that holds torn or resected portions of a tendon, grasping the tendon ends in an anatomically correct position without tension for the purpose of reattaching one portion to the other in order to complete the structure during a surgical procedure.

Wound Aspirator
Aspirator that evacuates gas, liquid, tissue and/or other debris from a wound by means of vacuum suction.

Fracture Bedpan
Receptacle for urine and feces for patients confined to their beds.

Saw Blade
Blade that is the cutting component of a manually operated rotatory electric or pneumatic saw to cut materials, objects, or anatomic structures.

Arthroscopy Drainage Cannulae
Cannulae that aids to drain distention/irrigation solution from the joint during arthroscopic surgery.

Surgical Chisel
Bone surgical chisel used to remove bone during orthopedic surgical procedures.

Bone Cutter
Cutter that can puncture or divide a bone in two.

Orthopedic Elevator
Retractor for raising or replacing the zygomatic bone or arch.

Orthopedic Forceps
An instrument that has two blades and a handle and is used for handling, grasping, or compressing

Gouge
A chisel with a concavo-convex cross section for removing portions of bone in surgery

Bone Mallet
Mallet that strikes a chisel or other driving or cutting instrument into bone.

Orthopedic Osteotome
Osteotome that cuts and/or shapes bone during orthopedic procedures.

Arthroscopy Probe
An arthroscopy probe is a medical device used in conjunction with arthroscopic procedures to evaluate articular cartilage properties.

Surgical Procedure Tray
A tray designed to provide all the instruments and supplies needed for the physician to perform a specific medical procedure.

Film Radiographic System
Radiographic system that performs diagnostic x-ray procedures by taking a latent image of the irradiated portion of the patient on film.

Raspatory
Surgical instruments used to smooth the edges of a divided bone.

Fiberoptic Retractor
Retractor suited with a fiberoptic light source that is used to give light to surgical site.

Orthopedic Retractor
A surgical instrument that is used to hold tissue away from the surgical area.

Extremity MRI Unit
MRI system with small-bore diameter that only permit imaging of the limbs of the body and whose magnetic fields usually range from 0.1 to 0.3 Tesla.

Full-Body MRI Unit
MRI system that permits imaging of all body areas, and whose magnetic fields usually range from 0.5 to 1.5 Tesla.

Tendon Stripper
A tendon stripper helps the doctor remove just the right amount and shape of tissue.

Programmer/Tester
Device for testing and/or changing the functions of implanted programmable devices.

Tissue Forceps
Forceps without teeth or with one or more small teeth at the end of each blade, designed for handling tissues with minimal trauma during surgery.

Apron Rack
Apron racks are designed to keep X-ray aprons organized, easily accessible, and in prime working order.