CE BLOG: Radiation Effects on Humans

This week is to learn more about the effects of radiation on the human body.  The more you are informed , the more you can discern the truth in the information you hear about Japan. Fear arises when we don't have adequate information.

Due Thursday 8:oopm

http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/219615.php


Welcome back and let's get ready to finish the year in  style!
Ms. P

CE Blog for March 13 - 18

The link will take you to the Muscular Dystrophy Association Home page.

Remember the Jerry Lewis Telethon each September?  Though the article is long, valuable information is essential for your understanding.  As you know, complex ideas need explaination in a step by step format.

Remember to post your summary, then respond to 2 peer comments.

http://www.mda.org/publications/fa-dmdbmd-what.html

Due:  Thursday by 8:00PM.
Ms. P

Med Term Vocabulary Ch 5 Cardiovascular

Med Term Words for test next Wednesday.
DIVIDE and DEFINE each word

angio
aorto
arterio
brady
cardio
crasia
emia
leuko
phlebo
tachy
thrombo
veno
isch
megaly
valvul
embol
chromat
lipid
an-
plast
electro
lytic
stasis

Current Event Blog Article for Feb 28 to March 3rd

The article this week relates to Eastern Medicine as we demonstrated various methods during class.  This will expand your knowledge in alternative medicine. 

During discussion compare Eastern and Western Medicine.  What are the advantages and disadvantages of each?  Look up one technique and expand within blog.
Enjoy

Chinese Medicine
http://alternativemedicinenow.com/chinese-traditional-medicine-is-more-than-acupuncture/

ASSIGNMENT in preparation for Monday Guest Speaker

Flexibility is the key, but as of Friday, our guest speaker will be here on Monday. 

In order to prepare yourself to engage in conversation and ask questions, review the following.

1.  Types of Joints:  ball & socket; gliding; etc.
2.  Know the structure and name of the knee parts: articulation cartilage; meniscus, bursa, etc.
3.  Look up the AXIAL and AXIS of the cervical vertebra and what movement does it allow for the cranium.
4.  Label all parts of the diagram handout.  Include all bones listed on your master sheet and the landmarks.

Have a great weekend.

Current Events Feb 13th - Feb 17th

February 13 – February 17^th

 

This week’s Current Event relates to bone fractures.  First watch the brief 2 minute video explaining the different type of fractures that occur to bones.  The video will give you a visual for bone fractures.  Next, click on the second link to read the article on the steps to bone healing.  Provide your summary using 5-8 sentences and comment on 2 of your peers ideas. Last post accepted Thursday, Feb. 17th at 8:00pm. 

http://video.about.com/orthopedics/Fractures-1.htm

Link below is to the Article: Bone Healing
Page Last Updated: 12/18/2009

http://www.foothealthfacts.org/footankleinfo/Bone_Healing.htm

Ongoing Journal Entry

Remember to write down one new thing you have learned every day in your journal/notebook.  These will be reviewed by Ms. Barnett and Ms. Pruitt.

Med Term Vocabulary Words #16: Due Monday, Jan 31, 2011

Health Science 1

Medical Terminology

Chapter 15 – Diagnostics

Med Terminology words for vocabulary test on Wednesday, Feb. 2, 2011.   Complete these words by Monday, Jan. 31, 2011 and bring into class.  Your entire word list must be finished as this is an assignment.  This is your opportunity to ask questions regarding these words and Chapter 15 Diagnostics in Med Terms.  Use the blog to ask students questions if you are having difficulty finding specific words. 

Spelling, divide words, identify word parts, definition using word part definition.

1. Albuminuria
2. Ophthalmoscope
3. Otoscope
4. Phlebotomist
5. Hematocrit
6. Thrombocytopenia
7. Bacteriuria
8. Fluoroscopy
9. Auscultation
10. Recumbent
11. Stethoscope
12. Transesophageal
13. Echocardiography
14. Ultrasonography

Current Event Article for week of January 17, 2011

The article selected for discussion is relevant to Chaper 3 in Health Careers Today. To obtain the greatest benefit, insight, and guide your responses and presenting knowledgable questions, reading the assigned Chapter in HCT is recommended.

To stimulate discussion, think of the ways germs are spread in your typical day.  Apply to a hospital environment, which contains multiple people with contageous germs, and how infection control is designed to prevent or minimize the spread of germs between patients and healthcare workers. 

Can universal precautions be practiced in a home, school or work environment?  What kind of responsiblity do the two people in the article have to the public?  Are there any global concerns?

Add your own comments and ideas! 
Ms. Pruitt

Quarantine: Eternal Wisdom for Disease Prevention  July 10, 2007      Mary Mallon was a personal chef preparing meals for families, often even traveling with those families to their country retreats and cooking for them during their vacations. She didn’t stay long with each family, but her well-developed culinary skills ensured her a new position each time she moved on.     When Mallon left a household, she would sometimes leave behind more than just memories of delicious meals, however. Multiple members of her clients’ families reported being stricken with terrible headaches, nausea, dangerously high fevers, dreadful coughs, skin rashes, and constipation or, conversely, diarrhea. Three of those ailing did not recover.    Investigating health authorities determined the cause of the deaths to be typhoid fever and traced its roots to the New York–area cook. They told her she was an asymptomatic carrier of the infectious disease caused by Salmonella typhi. The pathogen was multiplying within her, but she displayed no outward symptoms of the illness. She may have passed on the disease to unsuspecting victims through infected fecal matter by preparing food without properly washing her hands. But Mallon, not well educated, had a hard time believing she could be a threat to others when she never became ill herself.    After health authorities tracked her down, they detained her at Riverside Hospital in New York, confining her to prevent the spread of the disease. Although she remained unconvinced that she needed to be quarantined, Mallon was eventually released with the stipulation that she never cook for others again.    A few years later, authorities were investigating a disease outbreak in a local hospital. To their surprise, the new cook for the institution was none other than Mallon, who was infecting others while working under an alias in the only occupation she knew well. That was a hundred years ago.    Recently Andrew Speaker has been in the headlines. Like Mallon, he is a carrier of a contagious disease and didn’t want to be quarantined, claiming not to believe he was a threat to others. But unlike Mary, who remained in the New York area, Speaker traveled around the globe after learning of his condition. He traveled to Paris on a commercial flight, continued on to Greece for his wedding, and then honeymooned in Europe. According to the Centers for Disease Control (CDC), representatives met him in Rome to discuss his options. But instead of checking in to a local hospital as recommended, Speaker and his bride fled to Prague, where they caught a flight to Montreal before crossing the border and entering the United States. Officials isolated the health fugitive, eventually transferring him to a Denver hospital for treatment.         The CDC has contacted nearly all of the U.S. airline passengers who traveled with Speaker, but there is no way to know how many others were unknowingly exposed.    The problems associated with exposure to communicable diseases have plagued humankind since ancient times. Thousands of years before Antonie van Leeuwenhoek first observed bacteria with his early-17th-century microscopes, some knew the principle of isolating ill patients to prevent the spread of disease. It may come as a surprise that quarantine and sanitary precautions for disease prevention are found in the Old Testament and are just as valid today as they were then (see Leviticus 13, 14 and 15; Deuteronomy 23; and Numbers 19). From biblical times until the 19th century, group travel meant ships, caravans or other time-consuming methods. The current meaning of the word quarantine grew from the Italian quaranta giorni, Italian for “40 days,” as 14th-century Venetians kept ships from plague-stricken areas waiting at anchor outside the port for an arbitrary 40 days.     Today’s rapid worldwide air travel, coupled with the sheer numbers of travelers, means the potential for spreading disease far and wide in a short period of time is enormous. Mary Mallon (now known as Typhoid Mary), while living and working around the New York area during the early 20th century, likely infected fewer than 50 people. A century later, Andrew Speaker, jetting around the world in the silver incubation tubes we use for modern air transportation, may have exposed thousands to multidrug-resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB) during his two-week gallivant.    The media attention lavished upon Speaker’s apparent disregard for the welfare of others (including his own wife) should be a reminder to each of us to be more conscious and more cautious about isolating our own contagions. Do you send your children to day care or school with fevers, coughs and sore throats? What about exposing your coworkers to your cold? So you have a trip planned, but you have the flu—do you just take some drugs to lessen the symptoms and get on the plane anyway? Of course, the more serious the disease, the greater the potential for harm to others, and the greater the need for the timeless principle of quarantine. Although modern science has made almost unimaginable progress in preventing and dealing with illness, we would be wise to heed this pearl of ancient wisdom. ALICE ABLER RELATED ARTICLESPreparing for the Next Pandemic   SELECTED REFERENCES:http://www.redcross.org/preparedness/cdc_english/IsoQuar.asp http://www.cdc.gov/tb/xdrtb/travellerfactsheet1.htm http://www.cdc.gov/tb/xdrtb/timeline.htm

http://www.vision.org/visionmedia/article.aspx?id=3378

 

Ch 5 Tissue Vocabulary Words for Wednesday Jan 5th 2011

Below are the vocabulary words for this week.  Please post your definitions here.  Remember these are to be completed this evening.  Monday Jan 3rd to allow time for learning the words and your quiz on Wed.

VOCABULARY WORDS

1.      Epithelial

2.    Squamous

3.    Fibroblast

4.    Mast cells

5.    Macrophages

6.    Phagocytes

7.    Elastic fibers

8.    Reticular fibers

9.    Cartilage

10.     Collagen

11. Smooth muscle

12.     Cardiac muscle

13.     Skeletal muscle

14.     Tissue

15.     Connective tissue