Most diagnostic tests conducted in a Radiology Department expose patients using ionising radiation that are considered to be generally safe. There is no doubt that any radiation dose implicated could produce some form of effects on such individual. Hence, the purpose of radiation protection and safety programmes aim to prevent such unnecessary radiation exposures and to control the amount of exposure dose whenever is required. Even though it is necessary to reap the benefits on the use of radiation in the diagnosis of certain illnesses, it is still imperative to maintain the level of dosage to be at its minimum. This helps in reducing the patient’s lifetime risk of developing cancer while undergoing the different types of x-ray examinations.
Question: iii) The system prevents dosage errors being made Justification: Relates to safety - too much or too little of a drug would prevent the medication from being effective or be potentially dangerous. Question: When a drug is chosen can you only prescribe a safe dose? iv) The system provides relevant information about the medication Justification: Relates to helpfulness - There are many different drugs available for a doctor to prescribe, many of which have similar names or use brand names rather than the active ingredients. Furthermore generic compounds are typically less expensive than branded ones – allowing doctors to access drug information provides them with the ability to compare different drugs available and choose the best possible medication for the patient. Question: Can you see information about the drug such as dosage, active ingredients and alternatives?
Slide Treatment z. The most effective form of initial thyroid cancer therapy is surgery {. Because of the excellent outlook for most thyroid cancers, some surgeons feel that it is sufficient to remove only a portion of the gland. However, there is a growing body of evidence based upon long term follow-up which indicates it is worthwhile to safely remove as much of the thyroid gland as possible |. This more aggressive approach will avoid recurrences and optimize subsequent non-surgical measures such as radioactive iodine
Gallium-67 Gallium-67 is a positron-emitting radioisotope of Gallium used in nuclear medicine. Gallium-67 has a decay half-life of 3.26 days; therefore it is used as a tracer to obtain an image of a specific type of tissue or disease state of tissue. More so, Gallium-67, like the Gallium salts Gallium Citrate and Gallium Nitrate, is also mainly used for whole-body scans to detect the source of a Fever of Unknown Origin, detection of pulmonary and mediastinal inflammation/infection (especially useful in immunocompromised patients), evaluation of active lymphocytic or granulomatous inflammatory processes such as tuberculosis, diagnosing vertebral osteomyelitis and/or disk space infection, diagnosis and follow-up of retroperitoneal fibrosis, and for evaluation and follow-up of drug-induced pulmonary toxicity. Gallium-67 PET scans are done by injecting the Gallium-67 tracer into the body through an IV and gamma images are taken 24 or 48 hours later. Each image takes 30-60 minutes to develop which will show bright spots where the tracer has collected in large amounts due to inflammation or rapid cell division.
The answer to whether or not to give these drug users a sterile needle is simple: these people deserve to be supplied with clean needles. Needle exchanges help prevent the spread of HIV/AIDs, NEPs can actually reduce the amount of IV users, . IV drug use is extremely common with about 24 million Americans contributing to the statistic. Unfortunately, with IV drug use with drugs such
The Bio-medical model has several assumptions that are accurate; it defines health as a biological normality it also believes that illnesses and disease are caused by an identifiable factor such as a faulty gene or virus. The model believes that illness is a temporary condition producing a physical symptom and that it should be identified and classified by a medical official not a non-expert. It is common for the experts that follow the bio-medical model to focus solely on diagnosing the symptoms of their patient leaving no room for dispute between the doctor and the patient. Illness and disease has cures and treatments usually from removing the cause, medicine is seen as the way to solve health problems, and the health of society is seen as dependant on the state of medical knowledge and the availability of medical resources. The main strengths of the bio-medical model is that it stresses the importance of trying to find the cause of illness and disease; there is a wealth of evidence that support the bio-medical approach, including successful operations, cancer screenings and immunisation programmes.
This is treated through high-dose penicillin I.V. this is the primary treatment given. Anthrax also requires isolation to prevent possible spread by airborne or direct contact, even though person- to –person transmission is unlikely. A patient with inhalation anthrax is closely monitored through there vital signs, and is provided respiratory support, including oxygen and intubation, as needed. In cutaneous anthrax the lesions are kept clean and covered with sterile
2) Brutality in television or movie scripts could be less damaging than brutality in video games (NYU Child Study Center, 2010). | Point : 1 | 3 | [Multiple Choice] | Question | In treating skin cancer, the doctor's main goal is to remove or destroy the cancer completely with as small a scar as possible (Otis, 2005). | Answer | 1) According to Otis (2005), in the treatment of skin cancer, the doctor’s main objective is to get rid of the cancer with minimum
Lymphoma is not contagious, so there is no worry about catching it from another person (National Cancer Institute, 2008). There are specific risk factors that if a person has, it increases their chance of developing the disease. A weakened immune system is the most commonly seen among people that develop Non-Hodgkin’s Lymphoma (NHL). Most often, the weakened immune system is caused by something that was inherited, or by certain drugs that are used after an organ transplant. Some other risk factors include infections such as AIDS, EBV, H. pylori, HTLV-1, and Hepatitis C. The chance of developing this disease increases with age, though the disease can occur in any age (National Cancer Institute, 2008).
The recommendations for people who are genetically susceptible to getting skin cancer should not be over exposed to the sun. They should take every precautions to keep their skin safe, such as wear long sleeves, a large brimmed hat, and us a high grade sunblock. But most of all they should not really be in the sun when the ultraviolet rays are at their highest.