Medical personnel use cutting tools to cut through the skins of animals and human beings. The tools are usually sharp and sterilized to avoid mistakes and reduce infections that might result from the unclean tools. Different cutting tools are used for different body organs. Minor and major operations require scalpels, dilators and specula for cutting through small parts of flesh. Mechanical hand cutters such as lancets, drill bits, rasps and trocars are used for fast operations.
After an operation, the physicians must stitch up the cut body part to prevent disease-causing organisms to infect the wound. Stitching tools allow the doctors to seal the wound, while stitching threads and needles allow them to sew the wound. This thread is often made of living cells, making them digestible by the body flesh. The stitching needle is curved to allow for easy handling while sewing.
Patients might enter the hospital after enduring fatal accidents while others enter when unconscious. Stretchers are designed to carry injured patients and move them from the point of accident to an ambulance. Within the hospital, a movable stretcher transports patients to theater rooms or wards. Wheelchairs allow hospital personnel to move physically challenged individuals.
Recording plays an important role in medical institutions. Medical personnel use pens, papers and files to record and store individual patients' health histories. Patients and doctors use paper and pens to note down symptoms and prescriptions, respectively. Medical personnel use files to store patients' health history and medications.