This U.S. industry comprises establishments primarily engaged in manufacturing surgical appliances and supplies. Examples of products made by these establishments are orthopedic devices, prosthetic appliances, surgical dressings, crutches, surgical sutures, personal industrial safety devices (except protective eyewear), hospital beds, and operating room tables.

• Adhesive tape, medical, manufacturing
• Arch supports, orthopedic, manufacturing
• Artificial limbs manufacturing
• Autoclaves, laboratory-type (except dental), manufacturing
• Bandages and dressings, surgical and orthopedic, manufacturing
• Beds, hospital, manufacturing
• Biohazard protective clothing and accessories manufacturing
• Blood testing apparatus, laboratory-type, manufacturing
• Bulletproof vests manufacturing
• Bunsen burners manufacturing
• Cervical collars manufacturing
• Clean room suits and accessories manufacturing
• Colostomy appliances manufacturing
• Corn remover and bunion pad manufacturing
• Corsets, surgical, manufacturing
• Cotton and cotton balls, absorbent, manufacturing
• Cotton tipped applicators manufacturing
• Crutches and walkers manufacturing
• Depressors, tongue, manufacturing
• Drapes, surgical, disposable, manufacturing
• Dressings, surgical, manufacturing
• Dryers, laboratory-type, manufacturing
• Elastic hosiery, orthopedic, manufacturing
• Firefighting suits and accessories manufacturing
• First aid, snake bite, or burn kits manufacturing
• Foot appliances, orthopedic, manufacturing
• Furniture, hospital, specialized (e.g., hospital beds, operating room furniture), manufacturing
• Gas masks manufacturing
• Gauze, surgical, made from purchased fabric
• Gloves, rubber (e.g., electrician's, examination, household-type, surgeon's), manufacturing
• Gynecological supplies and appliances manufacturing
• Hard hats manufacturing
• Helmets (except athletic), safety (e.g., motorized vehicle crash helmets, space helmets), manufacturing
• Hosiery, orthopedic support, manufacturing
• Hospital beds manufacturing
• Hospital furniture, specialized (e.g., hospital beds, operating room furniture)
• Hydrotherapy equipment manufacturing
• Implants, surgical, manufacturing
• Incubators, infant, manufacturing
• Incubators, laboratory-type, manufacturing
• Infant incubators manufacturing
• Intra ocular lenses manufacturing
• Intrauterine devices manufacturing
• Iron lungs manufacturing
• Laboratory-type evaporation apparatus manufacturing
• Laboratory-type sample preparation apparatus manufacturing
• Life preservers manufacturing
• Limbs, artificial, manufacturing
• Metal fabric and mesh safety gloves manufacturing
• Noise protectors, personal, manufacturing
• Nose and ear plugs manufacturing
• Operating room tables manufacturing
• Orthopedic canes manufacturing
• Orthopedic device manufacturing and sale in retail environment
• Orthopedic devices manufacturing
• Orthopedic extension shoes manufacturing
• Orthopedic hosiery, elastic, manufacturing
• Personal safety devices, not specified elsewhere, manufacturing
• Prosthetic appliances and supplies manufacturing
• Radiation shielding aprons, gloves, and sheeting manufacturing
• Respiratory protection mask manufacturing
• Restraints, patient, manufacturing
• Shoes, orthopedic extension, manufacturing
• Space suits manufacturing
• Splints manufacturing
• Sterilizers, hospital and surgical, manufacturing
• Sterilizers, laboratory-type (except dental), manufacturing
• Stretchers, medical, manufacturing
• Suits, firefighting, manufacturing
• Suits, space, manufacturing
• Supports, orthopedic (e.g., abdominal, ankle, arch, kneecap), manufacturing
• Surgical dressings manufacturing
• Surgical implants manufacturing
• Surgical supplies (except medical instruments) manufacturing
• Sutures, surgical, manufacturing
• Tapes, medical adhesive, manufacturing
• Tongue depressors manufacturing
• Traction apparatus manufacturing
• Ultrasonic medical cleaning equipment manufacturing
• Vacuum pumps, laboratory-type, manufacturing
• Welder's hoods manufacturing
• Wheelchairs manufacturing
• Whirlpool baths (i.e., hydrotherapy equipment) manufacturing