History of Medical Technology Flashcards
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What year is this?
Hippocrates, father of medicine, and the author of Hippocratic Oath and Galen, a greek physician and philosopher, instigated a rudimentary and qualitative assessment of disorder through measurement of body fluids.
300 BC to 180 AD
What are the four humors?
300 BC to 180 AD
Blood, phlegm, yellow bile, and black bile
Hippocrates advocated the tasting of what? And listening to what? And observing outward appearances in the diagnosis of disease.
urine
lung
He concluded that the appearance of ________, ________, and _______ in urine indicate kidney disease and chronic illnesses.
bubbles, blood, and pus
Galen describes diabetes as “diarrhea of urine”. It also established a relationship between?
fluid intake and urine volume
What time is this?
Uroscopy or water casting is widely practiced.
Medieval Europe
Physicians who failed to examine the urine were subjected to?
public beatings
What year is this?
The first book detailing the characteristics of urine is written.
900 AD
What year is this?
Medical practitioners were not allowed to conduct physical examinations of the patient’s body.
11th century
They relied solely on the patient’s description of symptoms and their observations in 900 AD. True or False.
False. In 11th century.
What year is this?
mechanical techniques and cadaver dissection were used to provide a more objective and accurate diagnosis and to understand the insides of the body.
18th century
What year is this?
Physicians began using machines for diagnosis or therapeutics.
19th century
Who made spirometer that is for measuring the vital capacity of the lungs?
John Hutchinson
Jules Herisson’s _________ for measuring blood pressure.
sphygmomanometer
Use of ________ was pivotal in the diagnosis of diabetes, anemia, diphtheria, and syphilis during 19th century.
chemistry
Onset of mechanical and chemical devices spurred the turn from general practice to specialization. Because of the?
increasing number of patients and the increasing amount of medical knowledge which generalists could no longer handle.
The need for medical technicians and __________ also increased.
data specialists
What year is this?
80 percent of medical professionals were non-physicians. This growth impelled the need for technicians to be proficient in the use of technology.
1969
All these resulted in increased diagnostic accuracy at the expense of?
closer doctor-patient relationship
What year is this?
Laboratories designed for analyzing medical specimens were organized by chemical experts.
Mid 1800s
What year is this?
Technical laboratories regulated by the Centers för Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) began to be used for medical diagnostics in the US
Mid 1900s
What year is this?
Improvements in basic sciences and integration of scientific and technological discoveries (i.e., electrical measurement techniques, sensor development, nuclear medicine, and diagnostic ultrasound) marked the advances in medical technology.
20th century
Medical technologies also made impacts on various?
surgical procedures
Further integration of technology with science ushered in new medical advancements such as?
the electron microscope, new medical imaging technologies, and prosthetic devices.