L1 A. History Of medical Technology In A Global Context Flashcards
He is the father of medicine
Author of the Hippocratic Oath, and Galen
Hippocrates
Four humors oh Hippocrates
Blood, phlegm, yellow bile, black bile
He described diabetes as diarrhea of urine
Galen
Time when uroscopy was widely practiced
Medieval europe
Diagnosis by water casting
Uroscopy
Patients submitted their urine specimen in medieval Europe in — —
Decorative flasks
What time when physicians who failed to examine urine were subjected to public beatings?
Medieval europe
Time when the first book detailing the characteristics of urine ( color, density, quality) was written
900 AD
Time when medical practitioners were not allowed to conduct physical examination of the patients body. Relied only on the patient’s description of symptoms and their observation
Early 11th century
Time when Mechanical techniques and cadaver dissection were used to provide a more objective and accurate diagnosis and to understand the insides of the body
18th century
Time when physicians began using machines for diagnosis or therapeutics. Ex: spirometer and sphygmomanometer
19th century
Used for measuring the vital capacity of the lungs
John Hutchinson’s Spirometer
Used for measuring blood pressure
Jules Herrison’s sphygmomanometer
It was pivotal in the diagnosis of diabetes, anemia, diphtheria and syphilis during this period
Chemistry
Time when 80% of medical professionals were non physicians
Patients needed to be educated on tests done
1969
Who invented stethoscope and what year?
Rene Laenec 1816
It used to acquire information about lungs and heartbeats?
Stethoscope
Who devised the first practical microscope and when?
Antonie van Leeuwenhoek 1660
Who invented ophthalmoscope? What time?
Herman von Helmholz 1850
Who devised Laryngoscope? When?
Manuel Garcia 1855
Devised by Manuel Garcia using two mirrors to observe that throat and larynx
Laryngoscope
Who invented X-ray? When?
Wilhelm Roentgen 1859
It is used to diagnose pneumonia, pleurisy and tuberculosis since World War II
X-ray
Laboratories designed for analyzing medical specimens were organized by chemical experts
Mid 1800’s
CDC
Center for Disease Control and Prevention
Technical laboratories regulated by the CDC began to be used for medical diagnostics in the US
Mid 1900’s
Improvements in basic sciences and integration of specific and technology discoveries marked the advances in medical technology
Electrical measurement
Sensor development
Nuclear medicine
Diagnostic ultrasound
Early 20th Century
Used to measure electrical changes during the beating of the heart
Electrocardiograph
Who developed the electrocardiograph? What year?
William Einthoven 1903
Served as the pioneering work for modern physical therapy in the treatment of polio using hot packs and muscle manipulation
Kenny method
Who devised the Kenny method? When?
Elizabeth Kenny 1910
Old term for polio
Infantile paralysis
Stretcher intended for transporting patients in shock? Year?
Sylvia Stretcher 1927
Used to help patients with paralytic poliomyelitis recover normal respiration with the assistance of artificial respirator
Drinker Respirator
Inventor of Drinker Respirator? Year?
Philip Drinker 1927
Inventor of Heart-Lung Machine? Year?
John Gibbon 1939
Made seeing the heart, lung vessels, and valves possible through inserting a cannula in an arm vein and into the heart with an injection of radiopaque dye for x-ray visualization
Cardiac Catherization and Angiography
Who first operated CAR CAT ANG? Yr?
Developed by?
Discovered safe by?
Year of CAR CAT ANG?
1941
Foramann
Moniz, Reboul, Rousthoi
Cournand
MRI
Magnetic Resonance Imaging
Gave way to the visualization of small cells including tumor cells
Electron microscope
Artificial organs
Prosthesis
