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Sending Your Patients Home with Holters

As a cardiac care clinic, you know that you are going to have to monitor your patients at home from time to time. There are Holters that you can use to do this as they can record up to 24 hours of continuous readings so that you can see what your patient's heart is doing both during a normal day's activities and while they are sleeping.

The knowledge that you can gain with the information gained with Holters from the Medical Device Depot can be used to change the treatment you are currently giving to a patient. It can also help you to detect and diagnose a patient who might not even be aware of the fact that he has a heart condition in the first place. We carry a large selection of both portable and stationary Holter monitors for you to choose from that will help you make the right diagnosis consistently.

Finding the Perfect Podiatry Chair

When you work as a podiatrist, you know that the comfort of your patients is very important if you want them to keep coming back. One of the biggest complaints you will find that most patients express about visiting their podiatrist is that they get tired of sitting in an uncomfortable podiatry chair, while their feet are being examined or taken care of.

You will find that there are several different styles of podiatry chair to choose from and it can be very hard to know which one is going to be the best choice for your office. Before you buy, you need to read the reviews of several models carried here at the Medical Device Depot as this information can help you to decide which one you are going to buy, which in turn will make your patients more comfortable and happier to visit you on a regular basis.

Buying the Right Equipment to Perform Pulmonary Function Tests

As a general practitioner, you are going to find that over the years you are going to be confronted with any number of illnesses and disease to treat. Among the most common of these will patients with asthma and COPD in its various forms. In order to properly diagnose these illnesses you are going to need to buy the right equipment to perform pulmonary function tests.

The most common device used in a doctor's office setting is the peak flow meter as it is used to determine both inhaled and exhaled volume and flow rates. By using the measured quantity of air released it is possible to determine if the alveoli are retaining air, which is an indicator of asthma. You will find a selection of peak flow meters available at the Medical Device Depot for exceptionally low prices.

Pulse Oximetry and the Dentist

While the use of pulse oximetry equipment has been traditionally thought of as a part of just the medical community, this is no longer the case. Modern dental schools are teaching new dentist that any time they are performing dental work that involves the use of sedatives and a loss of blood during the work, the patient's blood oxygen saturation rate should be monitored.

Many established dentists are still not doing this for one or more reasons. The main one is that they still believe pulse oximetry equipment is too expensive for their budget to be able to cover the cost. While this might have been the case in years gone past, this is no longer a good reason not to offer your patients and superior level of care. At the Medical Device Depot you will find a selection of very affordable pulse oximeters for use in both medical and dental practices.

Finding the Best Prices for Welch Allyn Monitors

Welch Allyn monitors are considered one of the highest quality testing and diagnostic monitors available, you will find that they make a large selection of different types of diagnostic equipment. This includes everything from pulse oximeters to complete vital sign monitoring stations and ECG machines, they manufacture them all.

The biggest challenge is to find a single place that you can buy all of the equipment you need at prices your budget can afford. Like most things these days you can buy Welch Allyn monitors online from a variety of different web sites. The problem with this is that while every one of these sites pulls you in with promises of low prices and then fail to deliver. At the Medical Device Depot we have a wide selection of Welch Allyn monitors and we guarantee that we have the lowest prices or we will refund you the difference.