Hospital Practice &

Care of Patient

RAD 104

Part 1

RAD 104 Lecture Schedule

Day Time Room

Sunday 08:00 09:40 S-113

Tuesday 11:00 12:40 S-113

Wednesday 10:00 11:40 S-113

Text book

Introduction to Radiologic Science and Patient Care

Author: Arlene Adler, Richard Carlton

Other reference

• Basic Medical techniques and Patient Care in Imaging Technology

Author: Lillian S. Torres, Terriann Linn-Watson Norcutt, Andrea Guillen Dutton

Aim

• This course will provide you with an outline of patient care and welfare in the Radiology Department, practice and use of basic nursing procedures, rules regulations and practices of radiation protection, infection control and sterilization.

Objectives

• Apply basic principles of medical word building.• Correctly pronounce medical terms.• Define common medical terms.• Relate common medical terms to

– human anatomy and physiology; – common disease states, – pharmacological categories and

– diagnostic tests.

• Identify the medical terminology in medical record reports.

RADIOLOGIC TECHNOLOGY

• Radiography

• Mammography

• Computed Tomography

• Magnetic Resonance Imaging

• Quality Management

• Sonography

• Radiation Therapy

• Bone Densitometry

• Vascular Sonography

• Breast Sonography

• Cardiac Interventional Radiography

• Vascular Interventional radiography

• Radiologist Assistant

• Nuclear Medicine

Which on of these that you don’t understand

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Word Roots

• Usually derived form Greek or Latin

• Frequently indicates a body part

• Most medical terms have one or more word roots

Examples of Word Roods

Greek Word Word Root

Kardia (heart) Cardi

Gaster (stomach) Gastr

Hepar (liver) Hepat

Nephros (kidney) Nephr

Osteon (bone) oste

Prefixes

• Word element located at the beginning of a word

• Changes the meaning of the word

• Usually indicates a number, time, position, direction, color, or sense of negation

Examples of Prefix

• A- mast -iawithout breast condition

• hyper- therm -ia

excessive heat condition

• intra- muscul -arin muscle relating to

Suffixes

• Word Ending

• Suffix usually indicates a procedure, condition, disease, or part of speech

• Usually derived from Greek or Latin

Examples of Suffix

• Arthr/o -centesis Arthrocentesisjoint puncture puncture of a joint

• throac/o -tomy Thoracotomychest incision incision of the chest

• gastr/o -megaly Gastromegalystomach enlargement enlargement of the

stomach

• Pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis

• Pneumon-ultra-micro-scopic-silico-volcano-coniosis

an artificial long word said to mean a lung disease caused by inhaling very fine ash and sand dust.

Pronunciation Guidelines

• Ae and oe

• c and g

• e and es

• ch

• I

• pn

• ps

Word lens

Wrong terminology

Benign - Be 9

Coma - ,Urine - you're inTablet -

• Radiology- Medical specialty in which x-rays, radium, and radioactive substances are applied in the diagnosis and treatment of the patient

• Diagnostic Imaging- Medical specialty in which x-rays, radium, radioactive substances, sound waves, and radio frequencies are applied in the diagnosis and treatment of the patient

• Radiologist- Physician who applies any form of radiation in the diagnosis and treatment of disease.

• Radiographer- Skilled person qualified by education to provide patient services using imaging modalities as directed by a physician qualified to order and/or perform radiographic procedures.(X-ray Technologist)

• Radiograph- a photographic record produced by x-rays through an object.

• Mrs. Jones is a 60 y/o admitted thru ER c abdominal pain in the RLQ. CXR, EKG, CBC and ABG’s were done stat. It was decided to perform an exploratory laparotomy, but suspects she will end up needing a bilateral salpingoophorectomy.

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WHY CHOOSE RADIOGRAPHY?

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