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What are Vital Signs ?

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In this post, we will study about another important aspect in medical science and knowing about them is very crucial and they are vital signs. In every job we encounter, we will encounter vital signs details without a miss.  Vital Signs are nothing, but clinical measurements of that are helpful in assuring that human body is in normal state of health. What are the 4 clinical measurements ? The four clinical measurements of general health state of a patient are: 1.  Heart rate or pulse rate or pulse. 2.  Body temperature. 3.  Respiratory rate. 4.  Blood pressure. We will see about one by one now. 1. Heart rate or pulse rate or pulse: Normally, in resting condition, a person's heart rate or pulse is estimated to be around 60 beats to 100 beats in a minute. In fact, the lesser the heart rate, the better heart of health would be. For example, a well-trained sportsperson heart would be around 40 beats to 45 beats a minute. 2.  Body Temperature:

What is Atrial Fibrillation ?

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As a medical transcription trainees, you all must know about an important medical term, you would often encounter in files is atrial fibrillation. This is an important medical term related to cardiovascular system i.e. heart and blood vessels.  Then, what is atrial fibrillation ?  We will see the meaning and definition of atrial fibrillation below. We all know that heart is felt in our body by its beat sounds defined as lub dub sounds while doctors hear through a stethoscope.  There are normal and abnormal heart beats can be understood by the professionals and so they can lead the exam with an Electrocardiograph scan to understand more about beats and electrical stimulated condition inside the heart. So, an ECG or electrocardiograph scan report will tell more about the kind of heart beats and their characteristic features and consequences inside the heart currently and in the near future. Atrial fibrillation is nothing, but an irregular and also often a rapid heart

Aims of Studying Medical Language

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1.  The primary objective of studying medical language is UNDERSTANDING a complex term to be simply understood and make the student easier to understand it. If a student cannot understand the term, they may want to remember it only by mugging up the medical terms, which is hard. 2.  A medical term may be a simple one or may one complicated term, either needs to be understood to understand the medical science by a student or a reader. 3.  Each medical term is organized into parts such that each part of the term can be used with other words to give different meanings.  Eg. aden/o is a prefix that means gland, and it can be used with other prefix words to give different meaning related to a gland. For example, adenoma means mass of the gland. Adenitis is inflammation of a gland.  Understand. 4.  In this way, any term need not to be memorized, anyone who can understand the meaning changes with variations can never forget any medical term that they studied once by

One Best Method to Prevent Anemia Naturally

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7 Steps to Prevent Infections

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What is ECMO?

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What is ECMO procedure? In this post, we will see about ECMO extended as Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation, it is a life-supporting measure used in end-of-life saving procedures of a patient who suffers from life to death. The main purpose of ECMO is to provide oxygenation support to a patient either in postoperative phase or any. In simple words, ECMO provides both cardiac and respiratory support to a patient when needed, when the patient's heart and lungs fail to function properly in critical situations. Who will get ECMO support, in general? ECMO provides required oxygenation support to save life from death in crucial situations and so doctors can try their best effort to save the patient's life.  In common situation, ECMO is used in children, and also used in adults with heart and lungs failure cases. In this condition, blood carbon di-oxide of a patient is removed by giving oxygenation support. ECMO device set-up: In ECMO procedure, three cylind

Blood Work Lab Values Abbreviations

First of all, Happy New Year wishes for all our free medical transcription course blog readers. This post aims to make you well aware of all the lab tests that are done to know the blood values before diagnosing disease condition of a patient.  This article aims to know what are the important abbreviations used in blood test lab values. After we know about the important blood work abbreviations, we can then move to know about blood lab tests one by one. Okay. The following are the important abbreviated forms that are used in the lab blood works. 1,  dl - deciliter 2. gm - gram 3.  Hg - mercury 4.  IU - international 5.  l - liter 6.  mEq - milli-equivalent 7.  mg - milligram 8.  m - millimeter 9.  mm3 - cubic millimeter 10.  pg - picogram 11.  mu symbol with l - microliter 12.  mu symbol with m3 - cubic micron In the coming posts, we will see about complete blood work tests, such as atrial blood gases, blood electrolytes, bl