The main goal of medical record is to document systematically appropriate medical records or health information about patients, as well as diagnosis and treatment of diseases, those who have experienced domestic violence, victims of elder and child abuse, workplace accident victims, as well as personal injury petitioners. Recently medical records have been radically transformed, the traditional paper medical records such as handwritten or typed has become electronically enhanced. This has been…
TERMINOLOGY CLINICAL CLARIFICATION 1 • Life-threatening condition characterized by the inability of the pulmonary system to meet the metabolic demands of the body with respect to oxygenation of the blood and systemic organs and/or CO2 elimination • May be accompanied by ventilatory failure 7 • Develops within minutes or hours as opposed to chronic respiratory failure that develops over several days, weeks or years CLASSIFICATION 2, 1 • Classification is mainly based on arterial blood gas (ABG)…
CHAPTER 4: IDEA GENERATION & EVALUATION In order to measure pitch accurately we came up with 5 ideas. In the end we analyzed all those ideas in terms of following criteria’s 1. Ease of use 2. cost 3. Accuracy 4. Ease of fabrication. 4.1 Vernier Calipers method The Digital Caliper (sometimes incorrectly called the Digital Vernier Caliper) is a precision instrument that can be used to measure internal and external distances extremely accurately. The example shown below is a digital caliper as…
2014). The purpose of a study by Nam et al., (2016) was to compare the effects of using a prostate MRI verse the effects of using PSA as screening method for prostate cancer. The overall findings of the study indicated using a Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) as a primary screening for prostate cancer was more effective at detecting prostate cancer than using the prostate-specific antigen test (Nam et al., 2016). Therefore, using alternative screening methods such as…
field requires a lot of writing. An article in the US National Library of Medicine by Dr. Suhasini Sharma talks about the definition of medical writing by saying, “medical writing involves writing scientific documents of different types which include regulatory and research-related documents, disease or drug-related educational and promotional literature, publication articles like journal manuscripts and abstracts, content for healthcare websites, health-related magazines or news articles”…
The key assessment was for a tool and process to convert legacy documents. Legacy data conversion application Project Pluto team members identified key architecture and application design alternatives when selecting the legacy data conversion application. There were two architecture options analyzed and three application…
is important that once the patient comes to the hospital, a history is taken, a neurologic exam is completed, and results of neuro-imaging studies are completed. Manifestation for stroke is displayed in varying ways, but many times the patient will present with sudden onset of symptoms, weakness, numbness, visual changes, dysarthria, dysphagia or aphasia. The imaging studies, in the form of a CT scan or MRI, allow the doctors to make a well-informed decision to offer thrombolytic therapy for the…
(2014). Healthcare and Life Sciences Predictions 2020. Retrieved from https://www2.deloitte.com/: https://www2.deloitte.com/content/dam/Deloitte/global/Documents/Life-Sciences-Health-Care/gx-lshc-healthcare-and-life-sciences-predictions-2020.pdf Flanigan, B., & Thomas, S. (2017). 2017 US health plan analytics survey. Retrieved from https://www2.deloitte.com/us/: https://www2.deloitte.com/us/en/pages/life…
Joining a fraternity on campus is something that many college freshmen look forward to, and it should be a time of comradery and fun. Unfortunately, the hazing process can be something that turns from fun to dangerous quickly, and if your young adult couldn’t get out they may not be suffering. Has your young adult returned home from college because they were the victim of fraternity hazing that went too far, or now their grades and mental and physical health are suffering because of the…
A speculum is inserted into the vagina to clear an opening so that the cervical ostium can be localized and cleansed. A sterile saline flushed catheter is advanced through the cervical ostium into the cervical canal, where its balloon tip is inflated to hold the catheter in place. The vaginal probe can now be inserted while a sterile saline filled syringe is attached to the catheter. The saline is pushed through the syringe and through the catheter while the transducer moves from left to right…