PRELIMS Flashcards
- Application of diagnostic, preventive and therapeutic medicine to monitor and improve the management of health conditions.
Medical Technology
- Also known as clinical laboratory science or laboratory medicine.
Medical Technology
Medical Technology is the branch of medicine concerned with the performance of laboratory determinations and analyses used in the diagnosis and treatment of diseases as well as in the maintenance of health.
Anne Fagelson
Medical Technology is the health professions concerned with performing laboratory analyses in view of obtaining information necessary in the diagnosis and treatment of diseases as well as in the maintenance of good health.
Walters
Application of the principles of natural, physical and biological sciences in laboratory procedures to aid in the diagnosis and treatment of diseases.
Ruth Heinemann
Examination of tissues, secretion and excretion of the human body and body fluids by various electronic, chemical, microscopic and other medical laboratory procedures or techniques either manual or automated.
Aid the physician in the diagnosis, study an d treatment of disease and in the promotion of health in general
PMT Act of 1969
- George Eber
- Oldest preserved Egyptian compilation of medical texts
- 110-page long scroll
- 20 meters long
- Contains chapters on contraception, pregnancy, eye and skin problems, surgery, burns and intestinal diseases and parasites.
Ebers Papyrus (1500 B.C.)
- She is a medical technologist who traced the beginning of medical technology when intestinal parasite such as Taenia and Ascaris were first identified
Vivian Herrick
- Oldest lab procedure
- Greeks poured urine on the ground when it attracts insects then the patient is diagnosed with boils.
● Urinalysis
- Father of medicine
- Advocated the use of mind and senses as diagnostic tools
- He described four humors or body fluids in the human body
- 1460 B.C.
● Hippocrates
four humors
a. Blood
b. Phlegm
c. Yellow bile
d. Black bile
above is a whitish layer of WBC = now called the buffy coat.
o Phlegm
dark clot at the bottom
o Black bile
above the clot is a layer of RBC
o Blood
clear yellow serum
yellow bile
- all diseases were due to the disorder of these four humors or body fluids
Central Hippocratic doctrine of humoral pathology
- made the first description of hematuria
Rufus of Ephesus (50 AD)
- due to inability of the kidneys to filter blood.
hematuria
diagnosis by visual examination of urine. (water-casting method-flask)
● Uroscopy