Anatomy & Physiology
This organ, located in the upper left side of the abdomen, is responsible for filtering blood, producing bile, and storing glycogen.
What is the liver?
The property of a material to impede the flow of electric current is known as this.
What is resistance?
This implantable medical device helps regulate and normalize heartbeats by sending electrical impulses to the heart muscles.
What is a pacemaker?
CMMS
What is Computerized Maintenance Management System?
This global conglomerate, known for involvement in healthcare, aviation, and renewable energy, has a reputation for producing equipment that is "Good Enough".
What is General Electric (GE)?
This double-membraned cellular organelle is often referred to as the powerhouse of the cell due to its role in energy production.
What is the mitochondrion?
This fundamental component stores electrical energy in an electric field. It is commonly used in circuits to smooth out voltage fluctuations.
What is a capacitor?
In endoscopic procedures, this electronic medical device is used to maintain visibility by introducing and controlling the flow of gas into a body cavity.
What is an insufflator?
NICU
What is Neonatal (or Neuro) Intensive Care Unit?
This company, humorously known as "Big Deals" or "Billion Dollar Innovators" has played a significant role in the development of syringes, needles, and other medical devices.
What is Becton, Dickinson and Company (BD)?
Located at the back of the eye, this light-sensitive layer contains photoreceptor cells that convert light into electrical signals, enabling vision.
What is the retina?
This binary operation takes two binary inputs and produces an output of 1 only when exactly one of the inputs is 1.
What is the Exclusive Or (XOR)?
This specialized medical device allows for a magnified examination of the eye's anterior segment.
What is a slit lamp?
RFP
What is Request for Proposals?
This company voluntarily recalled some of their CPAPs and BiPAPs in 2021 due to potential health risks associated with the sound abatement foam used in their devices. Phil said "Oops!".
What is Philips?
Named after a 19th-century Italian anatomist, this valve separates the left atrium from the left ventricle in the heart, preventing the backflow of blood.
What is the mitral valve?
In data communication, this is the term for the additional information added to a data packet to assist in its routing and delivery, including source and destination addresses.
What is the header?
This device provides a continuous and slow process of blood purification for patients with acute kidney injury, maintaining fluid and electrolyte balance.
What is Continuous Renal Replacement Therapy (CRRT)?
What is Optical Coherence Tomography?
This company, founded by an orthopedic surgeon in 1941, is playfully called the "Surgical Slugger", swinging for the fences in the field of medical innovations.
What is Stryker?
This hormone, produced by the pineal gland, is known for its role in regulating sleep-wake cycles and is often referred to as the "hormone of darkness."
What is melatonin?
This performance characteristic ratio measures a device's ability to reject signals that are common to both input terminals.
What is the Common Mode Rejection Ratio?
In MRI technology, this cryogenic substance is employed to cool the superconducting magnet, ensuring its efficient operation.
What is liquid helium?
LASER
This company has charmed the MedTech world with its precision measurement sensors and instruments, proving that success isn't always a mere accident.
What is Fluke?