History and Trends of Healthcare
What era did individuals live in unsanitary conditions with little or no personal hygiene.
What were the Dark Ages?
These vary in size and types of services provided. Some are small and serve basic needs to the community; others are large offering a wide range of services.
What are hospitals?
Without or lack of breathing.
What is apnea?
What is Anatomy?
A method of prioritizing treatment.
What is First Aid?
What era were medical universities created in the 9th century to train physicians how to use this knowledge to treat illness.
What were the Middle Ages?
These can be composed of a group of medical or dental doctors who share the facility and other personnel.
What are clinics?
Before labor or childbirth.
What is antipartum?
Carries oxygen and nutrients to body cells; carries waste products away from cells; helps produce cells to fight infection.
ROSC
What is return of spontaneous circulation?
Created the first mercury thermometer in 1714.
Who was Gabriel Fahrenheit?
Surgical, Urgent Care, Rehabilitation, Specialty, Outpatient, Health Departments, Medical Centers.
What are the different types of clinics?
The study of science of life.
What is biology?
Digests food physically and chemically, transports food, absorbs nutrients, eliminates waste.
What is the digestive system?
Blood and bone protruding from the skin due to a traumatic injury.
What is a compound fracture?
Known as the founder of modern nursing.
Who is Florence Nightingale?
An international agency sponsored by the United Nations that complies statistics and information on diseases, publishes health information, and investigates and addresses serious health problems throughout the world.
What is the World Health Organization (WHO)?
Vomiting blood.
What is hematemesis?
Coiled tubes that extend through the dermis and open on the surface of the skin at pores.
What are the sweat glands (sudoriferous glands)?
What is respiratory failure?
Founded the American Red Cross and served as a volunteer during the Civil War to give aid to soldiers.
Who is Clara Barton?
A federal organization concerned with causes, spread, and control of diseases in populations.
What is the Center for Disease Control (CDC)?
Study of the blood.
What is hematology?
An inflammation of the sebaceous glands that usually occurs in adolescents.
What is Acne Vulgaris?
This is used to correct an abnormal heart rhythm during CPR.
What is an automatic external defibrillator (AED)?