Medical Equipment
The name of the tool used to take someone's temperature.
What is a thermometer?
This part of the body is responsible for helping you breath.
What is your lungs?
Another word for a broken bone.
What is a fracture?
This person is a medical professional who works with doctors to provide medical care to patients.
What is a nurse?
IV
What is Intravenous?
The tight rubber band used when drawing blood or starting an IV.
What is a tourniquet?
This part of your body is responsible for pumping blood.
What is your heart?
When our spine is curved.
What is scoliosis?
This person helps children and their families cope with being in the hospital.
What is a Child Life Specialist?
PICU
What is the Pediatric Intensive Care Unit?
The small plastic tube placed in your vein to get blood, give you medicine, or give you water.
What is an IV?
This part of your body near the stomach, makes bile and helps you digest food.
What is the liver?
The type of cold that affects kids more than adults.
What is RSV?
This person helps injured or ill people improve movement.
What is a Physical Therapist?
MRI
What is Magnetic Resonance Imaging?
The camera that looks like a big donut and takes pictures of the inside of your body.
What is a CT or MRI?
This part of the body, on your lower ride side, is not really needed to live. HINT: a lot of people don't have one anymore.
What is the appendix?
What is the life-long illness that affects the pancreas' ability to make enough insulin?
What is diabetes?
This person uses music to help patients through emotional or painful situations.
What is a Music Therapist?
NPO
What is "Not allowed to eat or drink"? (Nil per os)
The sticker or plastic clip that goes on your finger or tow with a red light that tells how much oxygen is in your blood.
What is a pulse oximeter?
This part of your body near the back of your mouth, helps fight sickness by trapping germs.
What are tonsils?
A common illness of the brain that causes seizures.
What is epilespy?
This person helps patients who are specifically having difficulty breathing.
What is a Respiratory Therapist?
TBI
What is a Traumatic Brain Injury?