Custom acrylic products are also widely used in hospital facilities. Acrylic is non-toxic and is of long lifespan. Because of its highly transparent feature, easily machined, and many other good essences, we can really observe many small or big objects made of plexiglass in hospitals.
Baby incubator is an apparatus with a chamber used to provide controlled environmental conditions especially for the cultivation of microorganisms or the care and protection of premature or sick babies. Acrylic incubator also protects the preemie from infection, allergens, or excessive noise or light levels that can cause harm. It can regulate air humidity to maintain the integrity of the skin and even be equipped with special lights to treat neonatal jaundice common in newborns.
For many disposable objects in hospital, like plastic urine cups, needle tubes and surgery operation gloves, they are mostly hanged on walls with acrylic boxes. There is even a statics study proves that acrylic storages boxes can drop down the wastage rate of the cheap disposable objects in hospital.
Plexiglass china also has a wonderful medical use in the manufacture of artificial corneas. If the eye's clear cornea is filled with opaque material, light cannot enter the eye. This is blindness caused by total corneal leukoplakia, which cannot be treated with drugs.
Instead of a cornea covered with white spots, medical experts envisioned an artificial cornea. The so-called artificial cornea is made of acrylic into a mirror column only a few millimeters in diameter, put the mirror column fixed on the cornea, light can pass through the mirror column into the eye, and then the human eye can see again.
