Nuclear medicine

putting a lot of value into preserving life and continuously trying to make healthy choices to extend life span to the maximal limit automatically paints death with a negative brush because it threatens the illusion of harmony enabled by modern medicine and healthcare practice. Moreover, modernism and technology have changed many Americans’ perception of death when contrasting individual and massive…

As soon as World War II started it was easy to see that there was some differences as well as similarities, but much more dangerous. The Great War was when the technological advances in weapons was just starting as well as it did not involve as many people as World War II would involve. This is mostly due to how the Axis powers were pushing for much more land as well as the communistic countries wanted everyone to fall to communism. Like previously stated the Great War was just the beginning…

Single-photon emission computed tomography (SPECT): SPECT is a type of nuclear imaging test that describes how blood flows to tissues and organs. Before the SPECT scan, the chemical injection is injected o human body that is radiolabled, means it emits gamma rays that can be detected by the scanner. The connected computer gathers…

Japan, in an effort to end WWII. The United States was also not in good terms with the Soviet Union. Japan surrendered and the much feared nuclear war never happened. The author, Ray Bradbury, wrote the story, “There Will Come Soft Rains” during the time of the atomic bombings. His story consisted of the events that he believed would have happened if the nuclear war was fought. His intent for the story was to show people that if technology was…

books and researchers in parallel. Therefore, while the researchers belonging to HRO were busy in assessing aircraft carriers, air traffic controls and nuclear power plants, the Resilience Engineering researchers were developing conceptualization of problem of error and its eventual consequences for interfaces design in nuclear, aviation and medicine aspects. In early 90s, HROs in relation to the thesis of a normal accident debated the outcome of their investigation whereas the resilience…

November 8th, 1895 is a day that will forever be considered one of the most significant days in the world of medicine. This is the day that a German Scientist named Wilhelm C. Roentgen accidentally discovered the x-ray while experimenting with a Crookes tube. This discovery allowed the inside of the human body to be viewed without having to perform unnecessary surgery. From this discovery, x-rays became “a key element in the identification, diagnosing, and treatment of many types of medical…

large number of patient deaths as a result of medical errors. Near misses reported for transfusion medicine identified the following root causes: (1) samples collected from the wrong patient, (2) mislabeled samples and (3) requests from the wrong patient. Near-miss reporting was similarly…

sick child. Financial issues are important because they determine a child’s environment and diet (Chow et al., 2010). Those two aspects are very significant for a child who is sick. When one is stable financially, he or she can get the best care and medicine and provide surroundings in which the child can thrive. Teresa’s poverty is most definitely a problem in this…

1932, only two years after he quit drinking Radithor. After such a high profile man such as Byers died from radium poisoning, regulators began to look more into the effects of radium. It was the beginning of the end for the radioactive patent medicine…

January this year (2016), I had the opportunity to see the work environment of the medical imaging / radiology department. It was neat being with the doctors, nurses, and technologists watching them give x-rays, do an ultrasound, CT and MRI scans, nuclear medicine, and even a few procedures in Specials. In the radiology department, the workflow varied on different days. It varied depending on the number of patients they received. The staff worked together and alternated shifts, so that nobody…