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Only wear gloves if risk of contact with body fluids. True or False?
False: Disposable gloves should be worn and used in all examinations and treatments
What do you do if you accidentally become exposed to body fluids?
1. immediately obtain the HIV/heptitis Ab status of the patient
2. if the patient is HIV positive, assess baseline HIV antibody test of the injured practitioner as soon as possible
3. The injured practitioner should repeat the test as follows: at 6 weeks, and 3, 6 and 12 months after accident
What do you need to do and obtain before treatment for colon hydrotherapy?
history, PE including proctoscopy, (may include abdominal US and/or contrast abdominal radiography), consent to treatment and plan of treatment
What's the order of establishing a clean field for treatment?
1. establish work surface in treatment room to make a clean field
2. wash hands and glove them
3. clean paper towel is laid out
4. treatment equipment in clean field only
5. no contaminated waste or containers in the clean field
How do you prepare the body are for treatment?
1. check skin for any cuts, wounds, irritation or infection
2. areas of treatment should be cleaned with surgical/germicidal cleanser or similar solution
Can you use the same water for the next patient?
water must not be left standing in the tank and the tank itself should be regularly disinfected, esp following a period of not being used. keep a maintenance log; Ideally the water is reverse osmosis or distilled
What is an indication for colon hydrotherapy?
there is a toxic component to any condition being treated and/or to stimulate the detoxification processes of the liver
Contraindications for colon hydrotherapy
pregnancy, tumor or metastisis involving the colon, rectum, diverticulitis, hemorrhage or possibility of perforation of the bowel or peritoneum
The following are patients with a high risk of infection:
a) HIV patient
b) pregnancy
c) diverticulitis
d) severely malnourished or debilitated persons receiving immuno-supppressant drugs
e) patient who received organ transplant
f) breast cancer
g) post-splenectomy patients
A), D), E), G)