Hospital and medical equipment
A ship's doctor and a nurse ensure the medical treatment of the crew and scientists. The hospital has a treatment room, a surgery, which is used for radiographs as well, and two chambers with cardanic suspended hospital beds.
The hospital at Neumayer-Station III in Antarctica is equipped in the same way.
Examples of the equipment:
Treatment room:
pharmacy
devices for blood analysis
ECG device
sonography with printer
inhalator
Surgery:
surgery table and surgical light
surgical instruments
steam sterilizer
electrotome
inhalation anaesthesia
anaesthesia respirator
defibrillator with monitor
X-ray unit
mobile dental unit
Emergency equpiment:
emergency respirator
emergency medical kit
rescue stretcher
floatable sick transport hammock
Hospital of RV Polarstern (Photo: AWI)
