Radiology

Visiting Dachau will be very a beneficial experience that we can relate back to our majors. With both of us going into the medical field, visiting Dachau will put into perspective why we want to go into the medical field. In our majors, nursing and radiology, our main goals are to help people feel better or help them stay alive. Dachau’s goal, being a concentration camp, was to kill off people. By the goals being complete opposites, they relate in the most basic way. Also within Dachau, medical…

Many people would assume that performing radiographic examinations is a simple task. However, this is not the case, there are multiple factors that need to be considered when a technologist is attempting to obtain adequate radiographic images. Between didactic and clinical instruction students such as myself are learning to recognize the importance of these factors. By extension, we are learning when and why adjustments to key factors are required. Accordingly, my Instructors have stressed the…

diagnosed with invasive breast cancer and nearly 40,000 women are expected to die from the disease. (Komen Foundation) Through education and perseverance from many groups, such as American Cancer Society, National Cancer Institute, American College of Radiology, and the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists there has been a decline in the rate of deaths due to breast cancer. Breast cancer is still the second leading cause of cancer deaths in women, exceeded by lung cancer. The…

A 37-year-old primigravida presented at 8 weeks’ gestation with sudden abdominal pain, which lasted for one hour. An initial examination revealed a blood pressure (BP) of 89/54 mmHg with a pulse rate of 82/min. The uterus was of appropriately sized for gestational age without her abdominal muscular defence and the viable foetus was detectable by transvaginal ultrasonography. Her haemoglobin level was 11.2 g/dl. After two hours, her pain progressively worsened and abdominal guarding developed.…

Ambulance Service Midland Healthcare offers fully-equipped ambulances staffed with trained paramedics, nurses and drivers to manage all the day-to-day fleet operations as well as those midnight emergencies. The ambulances are equipped with required medicines, emergency kits, and patient transport equipment and additionally carry life-saving equipment to take care of all kind of critical emergencies including accidents, heart attacks, and paralysis attacks. Call our toll-free number to…

practice gives a variety of services that teach skills essential to the practice of Emergency Medicine. These services include Advanced Life Saving, Emergency Medicine, Pediatric Emergency Medicine, Burn Surgery, Orthopedic Surgery, Trauma Surgery, Radiology and Ultrasound, and Surgical Intensive Care Unit. To apply for this program one must have a degree from an accredited PA program, a current NCCPA certification, Iowa state licensure, official PA School Transcripts, and three letters of…

may not know that, you have osteoporosis until a strain, bump, or fall causes a bone to break" (NIH). But there is a way to check the bone mineral density, with a test. Its commonly performed using dual x-ray absorptiometry or bone densitometry (Radiology Info). Also different procedures are used including MRI or CT scans. It's a way, osteoporosis gets diagnosed. The test can tell whether your bone might break, check the bones strength, and see if the treatments are making the bones…

An interdisciplinary team is a group of health care members who help plan, provide, and evaluate patient care (Taylor, 2011). The members of the interdisciplinary team can vary, but most include a physician, registered nurse, radiology technician, registered dietician, physician therapist, occupational therapist, speech language pathologist, laboratory technician, pharmacist, case worker, and various forms of pastoral care. (Sommer, 2013). The responsibilities of these team members…

Financial trends and reimbursement changes go hand-in-hand. Healing Hands Hospital relies on revenue from managed care reimbursements, therefore any changes within the managed care system will affect our financial budgets and income. This will affect how we pay our employees and what kind of services we are able to provide. It has major influence on how we deliver and pay for health care products and services. The average length of stay for a patient and its impact on the organizations budget is…

Maida Mohamed Mr Weddendorf ELA II March 10 2024 Medical Advancements War is something that has been present since the beginning of time. It leaves its mark on a place and its presence never really leaves. Additionally, wherever there is war, there is change. This can be observed specifically in modern medical care. During the Vietnam War, soldiers had to face many different challenges such as the environment and advanced weaponry. As a result, this caused pressure for medical advancement to…