Contraindications for using PSWT

Question 1

Name all the contraindications for PSWT (8)

Answer 1

Pacemakers, Pregnancy, current tissue bleeding, malignancy, active TB, sever circulatory compromise, deep x ray therapy, cannot comprehend instructions

Question 2

Pacemakers

Answer 2

Some, but not all pacemakers can be adversly influenced by shortwave and pulsed shortwave fields. The current recommendation is that there is a 3m separation between a patient with a pacemaker and an operating pulsed shortwave machine.

Question 3

Pregnancy

Answer 3

It can have adverse effects to the foetus - recommended that pregnant women do not receive the treatment at all

Question 4

Current tissue bleeding

Answer 4

Could make bleeding worse so bleeding must have stopped.

Question 5

Malignancy

Answer 5

It has the ability to increase the rate of division of the malignant tissues - a history is not a contraindication

Question 6

Active TB

Answer 6

widely held to be a contraindication

Question 7

Severe circulatory compramise

Answer 7

including ischemitic tissue, thrombosis and associated conditions

Question 8

Deep Xray therapy

Answer 8

in the last 6 months in the region to be treated

Question 9

Unable to comprehend information

Answer 9

or are unable to consent