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Tao Meaning Or Definition
道 is the Chinese character for Tao. The Character translates as 'way', 'path', or 'route', but philosophically 道 denotes the fundamentally true nature of the world. While the Chinese character for Tao is itself 'the way', it's often more loosely interpreted as the character for 'doctrine' or 'principle'.

East Asian religions and ancient Chinese philosophy like Taoism, and Confucianism believe in Tao.

Tao is everything we know and don't know that exists. It's a concept about everything encompassed by Tao. The universe and everything we perceive is a subset of Tao.

Tao Surname
Tao is also an Asian surname. Tao & Tao Technology, a Washingon family business formed by the Tao's, manufactures medical instruments such as the Tao Aspirator.

Tao Aspirator
The world's first pencil-grip, fine needle aspiration syringe holder that provides the best precise control of the syringe for aspiration. Tao Aspirators are made and distributed by Tao & Tao Technology, Inc.


"Tao Aspirator™ is an ergonomic syringe holding device providing total control and stability when performing fine needle aspiration (FNA) of a palpable mass for clinical diagnosis enabling the operator to direct the needle and draw back the plunger with one hand, while stabilizing the mass to be aspirated with the other hand."
--DrSmart.com

Go With The Flow
Tao flows around and over everything as the force behind natural order; the flow of the universe, if you will. It is 'the way'.

Go with the flow of Tao Aspirators. They are 'the way' for FNA in ultrasound guided biopsies.

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Urine drainage bags

Urine drainage bags collect urine. Your bag will attach to a catheter (tube) that is inside your bladder. You may have a catheter and urine drainage bag because you have urinary incontinence (leakage), urinary retention (not being able to urinate), surgery that made a catheter necessary, or another health problem.

How Your Leg Bag Works
Urine will pass through the catheter from your bladder into the leg bag.

Your leg bag will be attached to you all day. You can move around freely with it.
You can hide your leg bag under skirts, dresses, or pants. They come in all different sizes and styles.
At night, you will need to use a bedside bag with a larger capacity.
Where to place your leg bag:

Attach your leg bag to your thigh with Velcro or elastic straps.
Make sure the bag is always lower than your bladder. This keeps urine from flowing back into your bladder.
Emptying Your Leg Bag
Always empty your bag in a clean bathroom. DO NOT let the bag or tube openings touch any of the bathroom surfaces (toilet, wall, floor, and others). Empty your bag into the toilet at least two or three times a day, or when it is a third to a half full.

Follow these steps for emptying your bag:

Wash your hands well.
Keep the bag below your hip or bladder as you empty it.
Hold the bag over the toilet, or the special container your doctor gave you.
Open the spout at the bottom of the bag, and empty it into the toilet or container.
DO NOT let the bag touch the rim of the toilet or container.
Clean the spout with rubbing alcohol and a cotton ball or gauze.
Close the spout tightly.
DO NOT place the bag on the floor. Attach it to your leg again.
Wash your hands again.
Changing Your Leg Bag
Change your bag once a month. Change it sooner if it smells bad or looks dirty. Follow these steps for changing your bag:

Wash your hands well.
Disconnect the valve at the end of the tube near the bag. Try not to pull too hard. DO NOT let the end of the tube or bag touch anything, including your hands.
Clean the end of the tube with rubbing alcohol and a cotton ball or gauze.
Clean the opening of the clean bag with rubbing alcohol and a cotton ball or gauze if it is not a new bag.
Attach the tube to the bag tightly.
Strap the bag to your leg.
Wash your hands again.
Cleaning Your Leg Bag
Clean your bedside bag each morning. Clean your leg bag each night before changing to the bedside bag.

Wash your hands well.
Disconnect the tube from the bag. Attach the tube to a clean bag.
Clean the used bag by filling it with a solution of 2 parts white vinegar and 3 parts water. Or, you can use 1 tablespoon of chlorine bleach mixed with about a half cup of water.
Close the bag with the cleaning liquid in it. Shake the bag a little.
Let the bag soak in this solution for 20 minutes.
Hang the bag to dry with the bottom spout hanging down.
When to Call the Doctor
A urinary tract infection is the most common problem for people with an indwelling urinary catheter.

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How Ostomy Bags Work

An ostomy is a surgical diversion of the digestive or urinary system that bypasses normal elimination and provides for evacuation of waste products directly through an opening in the skin called a stoma. Because the waste products drain involuntarily, there must be some means of capturing them and storing them. This is accomplished by using small pouches called ostomy bags. These, along with several necessary ostomy supplies, make it possible to function with an ostomy.

Ostomy bags are of two types: colostomy bags and urostomy bags, the former for the digestive system and the latter for the urinary tract. In all cases, they attach to the stoma by a flange which has an adhesive that secures the bag to the skin. Some ostomy bags are one piece, with an integral flange; some are two pieces, where the flange stays attached to the stoma and the bag is detachable.

Colostomy bags are either closed-end pouch or open-end pouch types. Open-end pouches are used when the colostomy is high on the colon and watery, irregular feces are excreted. The bottom can be opened and the waste drained. A closed end pouch is designed to be filled and discarded. A uroscopy bag can be one-piece or two pieces as well, but it generally includes a drain for emptying the urine. Ancillary ostomy products include waterproof tape to seal the edges of the flange, and night drainage systems that attach to the drain of a urostomy bag and allow the patient to sleep undisturbed.

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Advantages of Disposable Medical Products

Disposable medical products offer many advantages that are recognized by a range of different consumers, from hospital staff, to private physicians, patients, and even non-medical professionals such as tattoo artists and electrologists. Certain disposable medical supplies such as bandages, gloves, and gauze have been used in clinics, hospitals, and doctors' offices for decades. Recently, however, the disposable medical supply market has increased significantly. In the modern healthcare setting, everything from scalpels to sheets and thermometers are available as disposable medical products. Disposable medical supplies bring many benefits, including convenience and safety.

Hospitals

The hospital setting is often busy and crowded, which creates unique challenges for effective healthcare. With so many sick patients, there is a serious risk that infections may spread from one patient to another. Patients with compromised immune systems are especially vulnerable to acquiring new infections and suffering serious consequences as a result. Infections can spread if contaminated items such as face masks or spirometers are used for multiple patients. Disposable medical supplies are a proven solution for reducing hospital-acquired infections .Single-use disposables can greatly reduce the risk of cross-contamination. For instance, the World Health Organization recommends using disposable needles and syringes when possible to reduce the risk of hospital-acquired infections.

Hospital workers, including doctors, nurses, emergency technicians, and support staff are often overworked and in a rush to care for all their patients. With time at a premium, having equipment that is ready-to-go is essential to streamlining patient care. Whether it is a disposable syringe, speculum, or hospital gown, single use medical supplies are fast and easy to use. A large investment of time and effort is required to clean and disinfect reusable medical products. With disposable medical products, the needed item is always ready to use without the hassle of washing it after the last use.

Private Medical Practices

Many doctor's offices also struggle with heavy patient volume, with a limited amount of time to see each patient. Disposable medical supplies that allow physicians to care for patients more efficiently without hurting the quality of care, such as disposable respirators and surgical masks, are a welcome change. Single-use disposables are equally as effective as reusable medical products and they save the clinician valuable time and effort. In addition, disposable medical supplies can save doctor's offices the expense of buying an autoclave to sterilize their equipment.

Patients

Patients appreciate disposable medical products for a number of reasons. First of all, they can trust the safety and sterility of a single-use disposable medical product. Instead of worrying about whether their doctors took the time to properly disinfect their equipment since the last patient, it is obvious that the equipment is sterile and unused.

In addition, patients in the home health care market who need items such as syringes, oxygen masks, or other products greatly benefit from the ease and convenience of disposable medical supplies.

Whatever a practitioner or patient's background, disposable medical products clearly offer many advantages for each individual. Whether the driving motivation is safety, convenience, or availability, more and more people are turning to medical supplies to meet their diverse needs.

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Medical syringes

The threads of the Luer lock tip of this 12mL disposable syringe keep it securely connected to a tube or other apparatus.

An old glass syringe.
Sectors in the syringe and needle market include disposable and safety syringes, injection pens, needleless injectors, insulin pumps, and specialty needles. Hypodermic syringes are used with hypodermic needles to inject liquid or gases into body tissues, or to remove from the body. Injecting of air into a blood vessel is hazardous, as it may cause an air embolism; preventing embolisms by removing air from the syringe is one of the reasons for the familiar image of holding a hypodermic syringe pointing upward, tapping it, and expelling a small amount of liquid before an injection into the bloodstream.

The barrel of a syringe is made of plastic or glass, usually has graduated marks indicating the volume of fluid in the syringe, and is nearly always transparent. Glass syringes may be sterilized in an autoclave. However, most modern medical syringes are plastic with a rubber piston, because this type seals much better between the piston and the barrel and because they are cheap enough to dispose of after being used only once, reducing the risk of spreading blood-borne diseases. Reuse of needles and syringes has caused spread of diseases, especially HIV and hepatitis, among intravenous drug users. Syringes are, however, commonly reused by diabetics, and this is safe if the syringe is only used by one person. In medical settings, single-use needles and syringes effectively reduce the risk of cross-contamination.

Medical syringes are sometimes used without a needle for orally administering liquid medicines to young children or animals, or milk to small young animals, because the dose can be measured accurately and it is easier to squirt the medicine into the subject's mouth instead of coaxing the subject to drink out of a measuring spoon.

Tip designs
Syringes come with a number of designs for the area in which the blade locks to the syringe body. Perhaps the most well known of these is the Luer lock, which simply twists the two together.

Bodies featuring a small, plain connection are known as slip tips and are useful for when the syringe is being connected to something not featuring a screw lock mechanism.

Similar to this is the catheter tip, which is essentially a slip tip but longer and tapered, making it good for pushing into things where there the plastic taper can form a tight seal. These can also be used for rinsing out wounds or large abscesses in veterinary use.

There is also an eccentric tip, where the nozzle at the end of the syringe is not in the centre of the syringe but at the side. This causes the blade attached to the syringe to lie almost in line with the walls of the syringe itself and they are used when the blade needs to get very close to parallel with the skin (when injecting into a surface vein or artery for example).

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