The Continuity Guide
Medical Equipment
by Martin Willey

Medical Equipment

Hypodermic A perspex tube bent near the end, which lights up as it administers injections. Injections are usually to the hand or wrist. Featured in Matter Of Life And Death, Another Time, Another Place, Missing Link, Guardian Of Piri, Alpha Child (Jackie is given one to play with!), The Last Sunset, Voyager's Return, Collision Course, The Troubled Spirit, Dragon's Domain, The Immunity Syndrome.

High pressure injector gun Used in The Beta Cloud and The Lambda Factor.

Ellendorf Quadrographic Brain Complex The "cerebral wave machine" featured in The Bringers Of Wonder. The same unit was also used in Catacombs Of The Moon (testing the artificial heart) and The Lambda Factor. It can be seen in the Medical Center in Dorzak and Immunity Syndrome.

Lambda Variant forcefield booth

Used in The Lambda Factor to isolate the subject from the lambda variant. Set up in the Recreation Centre.

Dorfmann artificial heart

In Catacombs Of The Moon, the artificial heart with tiranium coated valves that is implanted in Michelle Osgood. Perfected by Dorfmann in 1987. In the script, they used the plans to Bergman's artificial heart (this was rarely mentioned: Black Sun, Force Of Life, The Infernal Machine).

Hyperthermic lance Seen in Catacombs Of The Moon. Similar operating instruments are seen in Space Warp.

Vacuum enclosure Used in End Of Eternity to transport a patient in space.

Anaesthesia Control

A panel that extends from the ceiling, with the captions "Laser Control Unit X5", "Medical" and "Repressurise". Used as part of the spaceship control panels in Dragon's Domain, it is also seen in Space Brain, Dragon's Domain (and a third time this episode in the Earth hospital room) and the Year 2 Medical Centre.

Medical Pack Helena carries a transparent medical case; it is featured in The Last Sunset, Dorzak and One Moment Of Humanity. The contents are pretty consistent throughout: the long box is labelled "A11 blood administration set"; there are smaller boxes marked "Gillette Sabre" (disposable scalpels), plus cotton swabs and bandages.