Use since its introduction in early 1930, intravenous urography (also known as intravenous pyelogram) is a basic procedure for testing and radiology tests to access the kidney and urinary system. Tests and Procedures are very important to investigate any abnormalities in the organs of the excretory system (kidney, ureter, bladder and urethra) and the presence of kidney stones, Bloody urine and congenital birth defects of the urinary excretory system of children. This procedure involves the us...
Despite of increase in public and private healthcare sector expenditure, the utilization of healthcare services in India has remained poor. Issues related to Maternal and child health are of concern.1 For the health and wellbeing of a child, as well as family and societal well-being, antenatal and postnatal care of mother is necessary. India's Reproductive and Child Health programme2- Considering high maternal and child deaths, government of India has always aimed at addressing these issues t...
Scenario # 1: The Medical Assistant is preparing to perform a venipuncture on a patient who has come into the office for their annual physical exam. To prevent exposure to blood you must wear personal protective equipment (PPE). When a medical assistant is performing or assisting with a venipuncture, the expected PPE to be used is gloves. According to Delmar's Clinical Medical Assisting, "Gloves will be worn when drawing blood and/or handling biomedical specimens." Blood drawing is common sen...
The motivation of this paper stemmed from a recently news in the media reporting the increased incidents of violence and aggression faced by nurses in Jordanian hospitals. The media news prompted the author to reflect on current knowledge and understanding of these events in both in Jordan and around the world to make recommendations for managing reducing, and prevention of these events in the future. Recommendations for future research in this area were addressed also. Recommendations for fu...
Barium meal is one of an x-ray that allows doctors to examine the channels of the patient's mouth to the stomach and first part of the large intestine (the duodenum). Even though barium swallow is used to view the esophagus, but the path is equal to the passage of barium meal to view the colon. X-ray usually move continuously through the intestines, such as esophagus, stomach, and intestines. All these structures will not be seen by the practice of x-ray images. However, if the routes intesti...
Women who have been diagnosed with PID have been previously diagnosed with gonorrhea and Chlamydia, two other sexually transmitted diseases. "Much of the current knowledge of the longitudinal outcomes of women with PID has been driven by research on a Scandinavian cohort of PID patients enrolled between 1960 and 1984." (Wendling, 2011) Studies that have been done abroad have linked Pelvic inflammatory disease with abortion. "In Southeast Asia, post abortion infection is the leading cause of P...
Dentinogenesis Imperfecta is a rare inherited disease of the teeth, that effects 1 in out of 8,000 people throughout the world. Not a lot is known about Dentinogenesis Imperfecta because of the rarity of the disease. Dentin is a boney soft tissue that is the protective middle layer of a tooth, which is yellow in color with people that have normal teeth. People with Dentinogenesis Imperfecta or DI, the dentin is abnormal causing the dentin to be softer then normal and discolored. Abnormal dent...
In reference to the 1991 Uganda Population and Housing Census , the population of older persons was 686,260 (4.1%) of the total population, which increased to 1,101,039 (4.6%) as per the Uganda Population and Housing Census results of 2002 and according Uganda National Household Survey report 2005/06 (4) it estimated the population of older persons at 1,200,000 of which 53% were female while 47% were male and the overall total at 6.5% of the total population And it projected to rise to 20% by...
Anaemia is frequently found in patients with chronic kidney disease and almost universal in End Stage Renal Disease (ESRD) [1]. The prevalence of anaemia is directly related to renal dysfunction and progressively increases when the glomerular filtration rate declines [2]. Anaemia is significantly associated with mortality and morbidity in ESRD patients and it has been linked to the development of left ventricular hypertrophy and cardiovascular disease [3-6]. The pathophysiology of anaemia in ...
To correlate self-reported bruxism, muscle tenderness, gastrointestinal disturbances, and their relation to the 9 dimensions of the Symptom Checklist-90-Revised (SCL-90-R). Methods: Data from 3 surveys - Bowel Symptom Questionnaire (BSQ), Research Diagnostic Criteria for Temporomandibular Disorders (RDC/TMD) and SCL-90-R were collected between 2005 and 2011 at the Orofacial Pain Clinic at Westmead Centre for Oral Health. BSQ was analyzed using the Rome II criteria to classify the bowel statu...
