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Telephone Triage

... Telephone triage is defined as the management of patient health concerns and symptoms via a telephone inter... practice, primarily because nurses cannot see the patient with whom they are speaking. Thus, training and guidelines are essential to support the nurse. Relyi...

Réseau Sentinelles

...fluenza, gastroenteritis and Varicella zoster. The patient de-identified data is obtained via Internet by the Sentinelles doctors and directly streamed into a Geographic information system (GIS) database. A weekly report, called Sentiweb-Hebdo, is edited every Tuesday on the home webpage of the Sentinell...

Private prescription

... regulations if done with an NHS prescription. A patient usually has to pay a fee to a private practice doctor, and then another fee to the pharmacy dispensing the medicine - the fee is usually considerably more than the standard NHS contribution needed for an NHS prescription. External links Bo...

Polysomnographic technician

...t by reflecting light from the bloodstream). If a patient is apneic, he or she will usually have repeated events throughout the night which are disruptive to the sleep cycle. At the end of an apnea or hypopnea is often an arousal, which is a change in EEG frequency often accompanied by increased EMG frequen...

Ramón Carrillo

...me acquainted with colonel Juan Domingo Perón , a patient with whom Carrillo shared long talks. The colonel was precisely who persuaded Ramón Carrillo of collaborating in planifying the national health polítics. Soon afterwards Carrillo, at age 39, briefly served as Dean of the Medicine Faculty, acting as a...

Positive predictive value

...bability that in case of a positive test, that the patient really has the specified disease. However there ma...ria is present in the throat, rather than that the patient is ill from the bacteria found. If presence of this bacteria always resulted in a sore throat, then ...

Personalized medicine

...tative measure that is particularly suited to that patient at the time of administration. The benefits of thi...cantly more effective diagnosis, therapeutics, and patient care. Contents 1 Limitations of traditional medicine 2 Response of stakeholders t...

Patient trade-off

...xpected beneficial and harmful effects in terms of patient survival and quality of life. Symptoms specifical...of this nature it is of central importance for the patient and the physician to have access to empirical information on established treatment benefits and side...

Pharmaconomist

...escription , pharmacy law , medical sociology , patient safety , health care , psychology , psychiatry , pedagogy , communication , information technology (IT) , bioethics , medical ethics , safety , leadership , organization , logistics , economy , quality assurance (QA) , sales and mark...

Osmotherapy

.... For example, osmotherapy can be used to treat a patient who has cerebral hemorrhage . This might include the use of mannitol to maintain the brain's homeostasis . External links | A rather technical, but informative article...

NeuroArm

...ials hope neuroArm will be used to treat its first patient this summer [2007]." [1] Contents 1 History 2 References 3 External links 3.1 Videos 3.2 Related Patents History The $27-million [4] NeuroArm project began in 2001 when the namesakes of t...

Nuclear medicine

... tests are measurements of samples taken from the patient (e.g. blood, urine, breath). Types of stud...ucted to produce an image of a "slice" through the patient at a particular position. A collection of parallel slices form a slice-stack, a three-dimensional ...

Neuropsychiatry

...ertinent example of this and is encouraging from a patient perspective as the potentiality for pernicious sid... Vawter, Freed, & Kleinman (2000) Improved patient care Further, it is agrued that this nexus will allow a more refined nosology of mental illness ...

Medical writing

... clinical study protocols, clinical study reports, patient informed consent forms, investigator brochures, and summary documents that summarize and discuss all the combined data gathered in the course of developing a drug, device or biologic. Educational medical writing is writing documents about drugs, d...

Medicine

...lan for each patient. Central to medicine is the patient - physician relationship established when a perso...ssionals similarly establish a relationship with a patient and may perform various interventions, e.g. nurses, radiographers and therapists. As part of the me...

Medical Laboratory Assistant

...policy, whilst obeying the data protection act , patient confidentiality , COSHH and the Caldicott rule...MS (dependent on test requested). UIN attached to patient using patient identifying details on form. MLA's also deal with all sample queries and give low le...

Pathology

...y Pathogenic organisms are grown from patient specimens in clinical microbiology labs, allowing selection of the correct antibiotics Clinical pathology , also known as laboratory medicine , is the medical specialty concerned with diagnosing diseases based on the analysis of body fluids, suc...

Medical procedure

...ention of determining, measuring or diagnosing a patient condition or parameter is also called a medical test . Other common kinds of procedures are therapeutic (i.e., with the intention or treating, curing or restoring function or structure), including the large group or surgical procedures. Rehabil...

Hematopathology

...ist / oncologist specialty doctor who sees the patient and decides on the best treatment based upon the diagnosis . Diseases of Hematopoietic Cells The major disease of hematopoietic cells fall into several categories, which include chronic myeloproliferative disease , myelodysplastic syndr...

Hickam's dictum

.... The actual process that occurs when diagnosing a patient is a continuous flow of hypothesis and testing of ...r is, it is often statistically more likely that a patient has several common diseases, rather than having a single rarer disease which explains the myriad of ...

Gastric lavage

...ng fluid shows no further gastric contents. If the patient is unconscious or cannot protect their airway then the patient should be intubated before performing lavage. Indications Gastric lavage is used infreque...

Health Services Research

...h quality care; reduce medical errors; and improve patient safety. 2 While health services research is grounded in theory, the discipline exists to perform research that can be applied by physicians , nurses , managers , and other people who make decisions or deliver care in the health care system . ...

Family history (medicine)

...op similar symptoms without a genetic cause. If a patient has a strong family history of a particular disorder (or group of disorders), this will generally lead to a lower threshold for investigating symptoms. In diseases with a known hereditary component, many healthy people are now tested early to preven...

Extracorporeal shockwave therapy

...he physician's office in less than 10 minutes. The patient is able to walk out on their own power with the ma... Because re-inflammation is being introduced, the patient cannot take anti-inflammatory medication afterward, nor should they ice the area. Tylenol with codei...

Excoriation

...ations are considered psychiatric in etiology . A patient with neurotic excoriations should try to avoid picking and scratching their skin. Because of this, another diagnosis should be made if the lesions are found on areas where the hands do not make contact. It doesn't exclude the possibility, but makes...

Fat transfer

...ce of upper arm fat to build up the face of a patient whose cheek had large pit caused by a tubercular ...sts Procedures Fat is withdrawn from the patient in one of three ways: with a syringe that has a large bore needle or with a liposuction cannu...

Doctor-patient relationship

...ich is a legal covenant. Rather, the clinician and patient are in a partnership and both parties can openly d...ntain the most objective outlook by both parties – patient and clinician – in formulating and exercising optimal treatment plans. In fact, many health care pro...

Cachexia

...e a sign of various underlying disorders; when a patient presents with cachexia, a doctor will generally consider the possibility of cancer , certain infectious diseases (e.g. tuberculosis , AIDS ) and some autoimmune disorders . Cachexia physically weakens patients to a state of immobility stemming ...

Body shaping

...ability to spring back. Instead, the newly slimmed patient must deal with so much extra hanging skin, he or s... the most extreme cases , in order to walk , the patient must reach down and gather up the extra skin hanging on the lower body much like an 18th century ...

Artificial induction of immunity

...tion by transferring material from a lesion on one patient to another, thus infecting the second patient with cowpox. He then demonstrated that the latter was immune by exposing him to smallpox. The princi...

Acute care

...isease for only a short period of time in which a patient is treated for a brief but severe episode of illne...e care facilities with the goal of discharging the patient as soon as the patient is deemed healthy and stable, with appropriate discharge instructions. The t...

Ambulatory blood pressure

...ring sleep, and is useful to determine whether the patient is a dipper or non-dipper. In addition, nocturnal hypertension is associated with end organ damage 1 and is a much better indicator than the daytime blood pressure reading. Target Organ Damage It's has being shown that end-organ damages rel...

Allopathic medicine

... drugs producing symptoms opposite to those of the patient (e.g. see Organon, VI edition, paragraphs 54-56). After Hahnemann's death the term "enantiopathy" fell in disuse and the two concepts of allopathy and enantiopathy have been more or less unified. Both, however, indicate what Hahnemann thought about c...