MEDICAL TECHNOLOGY LAWS AND PROFESSIONAL ETHICS Flashcards
Definition of Medical Technology:
- The application of principles of natural, physical, and biological sciences to the performance of laboratory procedures which aid in the diagnosis and treatment of disease
Ruth Heinemann
Definition of Medical Technology:
- The branch of medicine concerned with the performance of
laboratory determination and analyses used in the diagnosis and treatment of disease and maintenance of health
Anna Fagelsun
Definition of Medical Technology:
- The profession concerned with performing laboratory
analyses in view of obtaining information necessary in the
diagnosis and treatment of disease and maintenance of good health
Walters
Facilities that perform chemical and microscopic examination of various body fluids.
Clinical Laboratories
A medical technologists that traces the beginning of Medical Technology when parasites such as TAENIA and ASCARIS were identified.
Vivian Herrick
➢ Bed: <100
➢ Procedure: performs routine procedures; complicated/infrequent tests may be sent to reference laboratory
Small Hospital
was regarded as a composite of humors.
Urine
➢ Bed: >300
➢ Procedure: can handle large volumes of work and perform complex texts
Large Hospital
➢ Bed: 100-300
➢ Procedure: performs routine tests and includes more complicated tests. Only new developed or high level of complexity tests may be sent to reference laboratory.
Medium Hospital
has been passed down from ancient times and regarded as the oldest laboratory procedures today.
URINALYSIS
(excessive urination) of diabetes was also noted in ancient times as early as 600 B.C
POLYURIA
Book contained the description of the three stages of hookworm infection and the treatment disease it could produce to humans
Ebers Papyrus
(14th Century) believed that MT started when a prominent doctor at the University of Bologna employed Alessandra Giliani (died due to lab acquired infection)
Anne Fagelson
- invented and improved compound microscope.
➢ First describe RBC, protozoa
Antonie Van Leuuwenhoek (1632)
Founder of Pathology, was described as the greatest of the early microscopist.
Malphigi
first quantitative test for urine sugar
Herman Fehling (1848)
He opened the very first clinical laboratory at the John Hopkins
Hospital.
Dr. William Osler
established laboratory at the Believue Hospital Medical
College
William H. Welch
She believed that medical technology began from the medieval period.
Ruth Wiliams
one of the youngest of the medical specialist, and the Founder of Archives of Pathology in Berlin
Rudolph Virchow
He gave the first laboratory course in pathology ever offered in an American Medical School.
William H. Welch