Mercury Containing Equipment

Medical Equipment

Equipment

Use

Batteries
Mercuric Oxide
Hearing Aids
Pacemakers
Defibrillators
Fetal Monitors
Hofler Monitor
Pagers
Picker Caliber
Spirometer Alarm
Telemetry Transmitter
Temperature Alarm
Blood Analyzer
Thermometers Temperature Measurement
Sphgymomanometers Blood Pressure
Barometers Weather Conditions
Esophageal Dilators
Cantor Tubes
Miller Abbot Tubes
Feeding Tubes
Hg is used as weight at the bottom of the tubes.
Electrical Instruments Laboratory Ovens (including Microwave Ovens)
Nursing Incubators
Room Temperature Controllers
Refrigerators
Relays
Switches (no noise switch used in patient rooms)
Lamps Fluorescent Lamps
Metal Halide Lamps
High Pressure Sodium Lamps
Ultraviolet Lamps
Cathode Ray tubes
Analytical Instruments using
mercury chloride as reagent
Sequential Multiple Analyzer (SMAC)
AU 2000
Electron Microscope Mercury used as vibration dampner.


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