Table V.

Equipment and supplies

Equipment and supplies	Facility level
	PH C	First- level	Referr al	Tertiar y
Sphygmomanometer	E	E	E	E
Tourniquet	E	E	E	E
Hand-held Doppler	I	E	E	E
Fogarty balloons of standardized sizes (e.g. 3, 4 and 6)*	I	E	E	E
Ultrasound with vascular probe and duplex capabilities	I	D	D	E
Basic synthetic graft selection	I	I	D	D
Advanced synthetic graft selection	I	I	D	E
Standardized minor vascular tray	I	E	E	E
Standardized major vascular tray	I	D	E	E
C-arm fluoroscopy	I	I	D	D
Angiography*	I	D	D	D
Surgical loupes (simple, small magnification lens)	I	D	D	E
Polypropylene double-armed tapered suture (e.g. sizes 2- 0 - 7-0)	I	D	E	E

PHC – primary health center; outpatient clinics, staffed by non-physicians; First-level hospital – typically staffed by general practitioners, may or may not provide surgical services; Referral hospital – typically staffed by specialists, usually including a general surgeon; Tertiary hospital – offer a wider range of specialists, and laboratory and imaging capabilities; Resource designation at a particular level: E – essential; D – desirable; I – irrelevant (i.e. resource not considered to be available at the particular level even with full resource availability).

^*Resource use requires moderate skill and should be considered essential only at well-functioning first-level hospitals (and higher levels) where a surgeon or at least a very experienced non-surgeon is available.