Phlebotomist must have good communication skills and do well under pressure and keep things confidential. Before taking blood phlebotomist have explain each procedure and have direct contact with the patient. Phlebotomist have to take vital signs which is blood pressure, pulse, and respiration readings. Phlebotomist has to clean and sterilize the equipment and draw blood in a skillful properly manner and follow the safety precautions. Phlebotomist draw and collect blood from patients/donors and then prepares the specimens for laboratory testing. Phlebotomist work at blood banks, hospitals, laboratories, and neighborhood health centers. . (http://www1.salary.com/Phlebotomist-Salary.html) (https://northseattle.edu/programs/phlebotomy-technician/job-description)…
The person to read Galen’s book On Anatomical Procedures, a book about his surgical findings, was Andreas Vesalius. Upon reading this book, Vesalius decided to do his own dissections to see just how true Galen’s observations had been. He had been granted a job as a surgeon in 1573 right after medical school at just 23 years old. As Galen had only used animals as his source of dissection, Vesalius found that Galen was wrong about anatomy in many occasions. One of these incidences occurred because Galen said the great blood vessels come from the liver. Vesalius found this was not true during his own dissections, because the great blood vessels really originated at the heart. He was able to show that the lower jaw was in one piece, not two.…
The Utah School of Phlebotomy is one of the few places in Salt Lake City that hold courses for getting phlebotomy certifications. It is a small office, south of the Sugar House District, that teaches students about blood itself, how to take someone’s blood, and how to get a job as a phlebotomist. Although they work really hard to produce excellent phlebotomist, I noticed that most people who let the students draw their blood are nervous an anxious. I have had many conversations with fellow phlebotomist on the subject of patient experience and they all agree people get worried when being injected by needles. This is also the case for experienced phlebotomist as well. In efforts to ease the angst of patients getting blood drawn, I want to introduce…
Medicine was often risky and people could loose their lives in the process of trying to be healed. Some of the potions used to relieve pain or induce sleep during the surgery were potentially lethal. Surgery was often performed as a last resort however it was known to be successful in some cases of breast cancer, fistula (an opening made into a hollow organ, as the bladder or eyeball, for drainage), haemorrhoids, gangrene, and cataracts, as well as tuberculosis of the lymph glands in the neck (scrofula). Early surgery, often done by barbers without anaesthesia, must have been awfully excruciating and dangerous for the patient…
When an average person with no phlebotomy training think of phlebotomy they automatically think of drawing blood but it is more to it than that. When someone with training on phlebotomy thinks of phlebotomy they automatically think about things such as labeling samples, anticoagulants, tubes and the departments they go into and etc. My paper is going to talk about the things that an average person does not know about phlebotomy. Phlebotomy is the practice of drawing blood from patients and taking the blood specimens to the laboratory to prepare for testing. As a Phlebotomy technician you play a very important role in the process of getting results back to the doctor. Phlebotomy technician does the collection and analysis of blood samples (Basically…
Question What is the study of blood and blood-forming tissues called? Which of the following is NOT a component of a CBC: RBC count, WBG count, ESR, Hct. or Hgb? For what is AFB a test? What type of consent is inferred by signs, inaction or silence? If one is neglectful or fails to perform an obligation they are guilty of which of the following: breach of duty, damages, libel, slander or precedent? The Latin phrase that means "Let the master answer" is which of the following: guardian ad litem, subpoena duces tecum proximate cause or respondeat superior? What is the legal term for the threat of bodily harm? Unauthorized publication of information about a patient is which of the following: tort, slander, libel, invasion of…
They started with the concepts of diagnosis, treatment, and prevention. Medical researchers of that time period understood that in order to effectively use medicine for the betterment of human health, they needed to use the same methods that modern medicine uses. These findings were further advanced by the Greek who included medical ethics in their research and development of the subject. It was the Greek who developed the Hippocratic Oath which is taken by doctors today. This was during the 5th century. “The practice of medicine goes back to at least 3000 B.C., when the first written medical records appeared in Mesopotamia.” This shows that people were always drawn to the fact of good health and quick methods to achieve…
Some of his other ideas are found in separate writings. In Hippocrates’ “Diseases,” he went further into the ideas of how the body worked, but focused more on the treatments of diseases. He delineated specific treatments for specific diseases throughout the majority of this essay, and went into detail about bleeding people or specific treatments. Treatments were suggested depending on what symptoms or signs the patient was showing. For example, Hippocrates had very deliberate instructions for the sign of a fever. Each treatment was interesting because his instructions were very specific about every step. For example, one of his steps included the instruction to “inject warm wine and oil into through a small tube.” The specificity of his writing indicated that the Greek view on health and maintenance of the body was highly regarded. The level of awareness for differing illness and their treatments showed that it was an important…
During the first world war, blood transfusions were developed to help save lives of soldiers through the process of taking blood from a donor and relocating it into a soldier, sometimes for several different reasons, but mostly for when there was extreme amounts of blood lost. Found in the book, Blood Transfusions, it is said,…
Before the progression of the 19th century people generally believed that practicing medicine was revolved around the belief in the four humors which consisted of black, yellow, blood and pleam. It was believed that if an imbalance of any of these bile’s were to occur, that diseases were sure to stem from them. Practices like bloodletting and exorcisms were performed to combat these imbalances. Although there was no real proof of these four biles or their connections with diseases, doctors continued their search the fact that doctors could do relatively little to treat disease during that time meant that they were not always…
Claudius Galen's theories of arteries carrying blood instead of air and illness was caused by an imbalance in the body pushed the practice of medicine. Many students took anatomy and surgery classes of University of Paris (Giblin 44). They dissected bodies and for the first time medical textbooks were printed in English, French, and Italian rather than Latin (44). This allowed medical research and information to be available to the average…
I have researched the philosophy of my predecessor, Galen. Galen made great strides in the observation of the human anatomy. My research in contrast to Galen has confirmed his theory of the four humours, and how each of these four humours relate to three principal points of the body: head (phlegm), heart (blood), liver (black bile), and gallbladder (yellow bile). I have a great advantage in comparison to Galen 's research because of my dissection of the human cadavers. I have found that humans do not share the same anatomy as apes. Galen was not provided with the opportunity to prove this theory. Galen 's theory of bloodletting led me to write a pamphlet that confirmed his theory but also supports my knowledge of the blood system. This pamphlet shows clearly how anatomical dissection can be used to test speculation and it underlines the importance of the structure of the human body in medicine. Bloodletting has become a popular treatment for a variety of illnesses. Because of this popular pamphlet, a Paduan Judge has invested in my…
The humoral model of disease said that disease was caused by an imbalance in one or more of four "humors" or fluids in the body: blood, phlegm, black bile, and yellow bile. Physicians would decide on a treatment based on what they thought was the cause of the imbalance. There were treatments that included the act of "blood-letting" where they would either cut the person, and allow them to bleed for a short time, or apply leaches to them to remove blood.…
There were three categories that physicians would place their patients in. One was those who were treatable, contestable and not treatable. Contestable patients who survived their illnesses were attempted on to doing surgical procedures. There were many tools like drills, scales, spoons, knives and hooks. In another article, The Old Egyptian Medical Papyri, it states, “This needle is mounted on a handle containing a spool of thread, so that the needle can be used repeatedly without rethreading or leaving the operator’s hands” (Singer 1952, 1201). In some cases, circumcision was done on males. Anthropologists do not know yet, if female circumcision was practiced back then. Since the Egyptians mummified their dead, they still did not have that much knowledge of the internal organs. They had some knowledge about how some of the organs themselves worked. For example, they knew that the body had a pulse and that the blood ran through the body with each pulse. Yet, mummifiers were low ranking members in the Egyptian community while physicians were highly ranked. They did not work with each other or worked in the same circle as mummifiers. Therefore, their knowledge did not mix with each other’s…
A surgical procedure is medical treatment that involves a physician cutting into a patient’s body to repair or remove something. Surgery procedures have existed since prehistoric man. In 1540 C.E. barbers and surgeons united to form The United Barber-Surgeons Company. These barber-surgeons performed tooth extractions and bloodletting procedures. As our knowledge grows, so do our abilities. Some procedures such as tracheostomy, described in detail by Paul of Aegina (625-690 AD), remain pertinent today while others which contributed to the demise of many patients (e.g. bloodletting) were surprisingly slow to disappear (Hindle, K. S., & Hindle, S. J., 2001).…