In recent years, with rising living standards, people are increasingly concerned about the health situation themselves and their families, a variety of simple, practical, functional new home medical equipment along came into being, people entering ordinary people.
    Currently, home medical equipment market is divided into the home treatment, home test equipment, home health care equipment and home care and rehabilitation to implement four categories. Home for treatment of some chronic diseases mainly serve to improve the efficacy of adjuvant therapy and physical condition by including household cervical spine traction, traction chairs, hearing aids and other equipment composition; home test equipment mainly for physical characteristics were detected, so that people dynamic control physical characteristics by including thermometers, blood pressure monitors, glucose meters and other equipment composition; home health care equipment focused on the improvement of the living environment by including electric massage products, air purifiers, humidifiers and other equipment composition; and home care and rehabilitation equipment which effectiveness is more complex and specialized, including the function bed, sleep instrument, oxygen machines. In the home medical equipment, the most popular is the older products. These simple medical equipment, convenient and practical, especially for some chronic diseases, elderly patients with family, you can always checkup, to alleviate the condition, carry out home-based rehabilitation, health care, emergency or hospital continuing treatment. Although home medical equipment can play a self-care, the role of treatment, but some people home medical equipment as a universal "family doctor", there may be self-defeating but delayed treatment time.
    Home medical equipment in the family brings convenience to the people and also has its dangerous side, is a typical "double-edged sword." Medical devices have a clear medical purposes, as well as a clear scope, precautions and contraindications, especially those therapeutic class products are very strict range of indications. Some must be reading more specialized medical equipment instruction manual carefully before use to learn more about the scope of the product, contraindications, precautions, warnings, etc., instead of playing twice to get our hands on their own operation, use; some of the manual is required by the product under the guidance of a doctor, should not use their own, should first consult a doctor or under a doctor's guidance. However, some medical devices operating the technical requirements for the user is relatively high, such as to prevent sleep apnea syndrome household ventilator (anti-snoring devices), etc., when to buy and use their own family but also to give full consideration to the ability to use their actual operation and Security guard condition; there are some medical devices are implanted in the body part, part of the in vitro use, such as some of the cochlear implant, with some hearing aids, artificial larynx direct contact with the cornea and contact lenses, etc., are the needs of patients in the professional training under the guidance of a doctor Use, do not use self-configuring.
    If unwell or exacerbations and other problems in the medical device use, should immediately stop using, go to the hospital; if found quality problems should contact the dealer or manufacturer; for suspected illegal or product quality problems, should promptly call 12311 or to the local pharmaceutical sector report complaints.