Lesson 1: Introduction to Radiologic Sciences and Health Care

Question 1

Study and use of ionizing radiation and imaging modalities to determine the absence/presence of disease

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Radiologic Technology

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— Uses small amounts of radioactive materials
— Can pinpoint molecular activity within the body
— Theranostics

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Nuclear Medicine

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— State of complete physical, mental, and social well-being
— Not merely the absence of disease or infirmity
— Reflects cultural, economical, ethical spiritual, and moral framework of society
— Had positive and negative impacts

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Health

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Simple treatment and Preventive measure

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Vaccines

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Diarrheal diseases

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Oral Dehydration Therapy

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Simple treatments and Preventive measures example

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— Oral Dehydration Therapy
— New Contraceptive Methods
— Curative Drugs
— Early Detection/Screening Methods

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— Tools that clinicians and individuals use to treat illness
— Most patients and consumers demand the latest health technology because “new means better”

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Health Technologies

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Will continue to increase commercial access to patients and consumers, access by patients and consumers to products and services online

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Direct to Consumer (DTC) promotion and Internet

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Will play a bigger role in shared decision-making and self care

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Patients and Consumers

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Technology ____ life

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Complicates

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Promise to transform health care over the next decade by giving clinicians and patients the tools that enable earlier diagnosis and better treatment of disease

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Innovations in Technology

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Example of negative side effect of technology

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— Forms of entertainment have social effects (academic performance)
— Increases probability of diseases (obesity)

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— Totality of circumstances surrounding an organism or group of organisms
— Complex combination of external physical circumstances that affect and influence how all living thigs grow, develop, and survive
— Affects the physical, social, and cultural conditions of every community living within it
— Forever changing and evolving
— Exists in a constant state of flux due to organisms that live and interact within the environment

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Environment

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Most modern technological processes produce unwanted by products in addition to the desired products called

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Industrial Waste and Pollution

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Some technologies are designed first for

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Economic and Ergonomic effects

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Modern technology has given humanity unheard of power to manipulate

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Earth, Air, Fire, and Water

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With the aid of radiant energy from the sun, generate plants and animals called

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Renewable Living Resources

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All of these resources, renewable and non-renewable, are to be found on a thin layer of the Earth’s surface known as the

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Biosphere

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The effects of technology on the environment are both

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Obvious and Subtle

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Depletion of nonrenewable natural resources (petroleum, coal, ores, and pollution)

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Obvious Effects

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Long-term effects (global warming, deforestation, natural habitat destruction, coastal wetland loss

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Subtle effects

Question 22

Each wave of technology creates a set of waste previously unknown by humans:

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— Toxic waste
— Radioactive waste
— Electronic waste

Question 23

Disruption of ecological balance in the biodsphere is due to the impact of

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Homo sapiens

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Three basic sciences

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— Physics
— Chemistry
— Biology

Question 25

A _____ must be avoided as it represents the ultimate environmental catastrophe

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Nuclear Holocaust

Question 26

Weapons of mass destruction ______ and _____ also pose massive environmental threats

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— Chemical — Biological

Question 27

One of the main problems is the lack of an ____ on a large scale expediently

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Effective way to remove these pollutants

Question 28

Humanity at the moment may be compared to a colony of bacteria in a petri dish with a constant food supply:

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With no way to remove the wastes of their metabolism, the bacteria eventually poison themselves