Home health care, as opposed to private duty health care in the home, involves intermittent visits from skilled services such as nurses, home health aides, or therapists such as physical, occupational or speech and language therapists. Home health care agencies also provide services from other home health care professionals such as medical social workers or [...]
Did you know that you can start a career in the health care industry without performing any clinical tasks? No patient interaction is required in a medical coding career — you’ll work in a comfortable office setting making sure doctors get paid accurately and on time.
Not to be confused with PCA (patient controlled analgesia) pumps which deliver narcotic pain medications subcutaneously or intravenously to post op patients, these intra-articular shoulder pain pumps deliver anesthetic medication such as lidocaine (xylocaine) or bupivacaine (Marcaine) directly into the shoulder joint to essentially numb the pain. These medications are sometimes mixed with epinephrine to [...]
Medical equipment monitoring refers to the capture, recording, and broadcasting of images from medical equipment such as ultrasound, x-ray, cardiogram, or any other monitoring devices. As modern medical equipment becomes computerized, virtually all currently produced devices are fitted with an output port to an external monitor. This output is usually provided in the form of [...]
There is plenty of medical equipment out there with long complex names, but I want to highlight a few of them and explain how they first appeared and what miracles they do each and every day in the hospitals around the world.
Firstly I want to start with ECG machines. ECG is short for Electrocardiography and [...]