Health Care Careers I Types of Acute Care Hospitals

Woman’s Hospital  Childbirth  Care for gynecological diseases

Pediatric Hospital  Birth – 21 years  Specific training: Some required and other recommended  Competence VERY important  Neonate: Birth – 6 weeks > These sick ones are in an NICU > Neonatal Intensive Care Unit  Specially training caregivers

Cardiac Intervention Centers  A relatively new unit  Care for heart problems

Trauma Centers  Highly skilled and trained personnel  Advanced diagnostic equipment  May have a helipad > A landing area designated for a helicopter that transports patients to the hospital  There are Federal, State, and Local rules and regulations for construction of helipads

Emergency Room  Highly trained personnel  Life-saving equipment  Trained trauma team  Life-threatening & limb threatening care

Services Provided by Cardiac Intervention Centers  Cardiac Catheterization Laboratory > “Cath Lab” > Usually perform heart cath’s and angioplasty (balloon inflated to open up blocked vessel)  Critical Care Unit  Deal with patients with heart disease  ICU/Step-down units

Cardiac Centers, cont’d  Transitional Care Unit  TCU or DOU (Direct Observation Unit)  Telemetry: > Monitoring heart rhythm  Cardiac Rehabilitation Services: > Assist with learning proper exercise, diet, counsel, stress relievers  Surgical suites: Open heart surgery & heart transplants

Terms  Cardiac Disease: > Anything that affects the heart or heart vessels  Coronary: > Referring to the heart > Coronary vessels are those that supply the heart itself with blood and oxygen  MI: Myocardial Infarction > AKA: Heart Attack > myo – muscle cardo – heart infarct sudden stopping of blood supply > Caused by blockage of one or more coronary arteries

More Medical Terms  -ectomy “removal of”  Appendectomy : > Removal of appendix  Cholecystectomy: > Removal of gallbladder  Hysterectomy: > Removal of uterus  Pneumo- “lung”

Even More Medical Terms  Oncology: > -ology: “study of” > onco- : “cancer”  Hepatitis: > -it is : “inflammation” > hepato- “liver”  AIDS: > Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome

Medical Terminology Sentences  Temperature, pulse and respirations four times a day > TPR qid  Two drops twice a day > 2 gtts bid  One cubic centimeter intramuscularly > 1 cc IM

Sentences  Blood pressure every four hours while awake > BP q 4 hrs W/A  Two ounces orange juice four times a day after meals and at bedtime > 2 oz OJ QID pc hs  Weight and height every other day in the morning > Wt and Ht qod in the am  Bedrest with bathroom privileges only > BR c BRP only

Sentences, cont’d Do the electrocardiogram in the intensive care unit > Do the ECG/EKG in the ICU One tablet three times a day and at bedtime > 1 tab tid hs To Physical Therapy by wheelchair for range of motion and activities of daily living twice a day > To PT by W/C for ROM and ADL’s bid

Prefixes in Medical Terminology  brady- : > Slow  mal- : > Bad  dys- : > Difficult  eu- : > Good  micro- : > Small  oligo- > Scant or small amount  pseudo- > False  ab- > Away  ad- > Towards  epi- > Above or top

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