Scientific AIDS in Hospital Diagnosis

ISBN-13: 9781468489019 / Angielski / Miękka / 2013 / 286 str.

Opis

This volume contains the Proceedings of a Conference on Scientific Aids in Hospital Diagnosis held at Oxford in April 1975. The Conference, organised on inter-disciplinary lines, was the fourth to be organised by the U. K. Liaison Committee for Sciences allied to Medicine and Biology (SAMB). The subject matter is divided into six sections: Investiga- tions in Pathology, Radiation Diagnostics, New Diagnostic Tech- niques in Special Departments, Clinical Measurements in Wards, Coordination and Communication of Results, and finally Ergonomic Contributions to Medical Diagnosis. Session IV may be found of particular interest as it puts the point of view of the nurses who have to operate so many of the new machines and pieces of equipment, often under stressful conditions. We were fortunate in having as our Guest Speaker, Sir George Godber, Former Chief Medical Officer to the Department of Health and Social Security. Sir George's career has spanned the time during which very many scientific technqiues have been in- troduced into medicine and few people could be better qualified to give an overall picture of the present situation.

Spis treści

I Investigations in Pathology.- Automation in Pathology.- Screening for Disease.- Centralisation of Pathology Laboratories.- Keeping a Balance — Specialised Analyses.- Laboratory Diagnosis of Genetic Problems.- II Radiation Diagnostics.- Provision of a Mammography Service.- Ultrasonic Diagnostics: Capabilities of Present Systems.- Radionuclide Imaging — A Quick Scan Through.- Thermography in the Investigation of Breast Cancer.- Perspectives in Radiodiagnosis.- III New Diagnostic Techniques in Special Departments.- Monitoring the EEG in Liver Disease.- The Use of EEG Telemetry and Videorecording in the Differential Diagnosis of Fits.- Haemodynamic Assessment by Transcutaneous Aortovelography in Intensive Therapy.- Design Principles of the E.M.I. Scanner.- Practical Experience with the E. M. I. Scanner.- Visually Evoked Cortical Potentials in Neurological Diagnosis.- Peripherally Evoked Spinal Cord Potentials in Neurological Diagnosis.- IV Clinical Measurements in Wards.- Guest Lecture.- Nurse — Patient — Computer Interaction.- The Patient and the Machine.- Keeping the Balance between Basic and Technical Nursing.- V Coordination and Communication of Results.- Chairman’s Introduction.- Review of Medical Linguistics in Computing with Special Reference to “Mumps”.- Progress towards Health Information Systems.- Progress towards Computer-Aided Medical Decision-Making.- The London Hospital Computer System — A Case Study.- Towards Microfilm Systems in the Health Service.- Multi-Image Storage.- VI Ergonomic Contributions to Medical Diagnosis.- Chairman’s Introductory Statement.- Industrial Experience of Ergonomics as Applied to Clinical Diagnosis.- The Rationale of Clinical Problem Solving.- The Ergonomics of Clinical Diagnosis in an Intensive Care Ward.