The Clinical History: Functions, Characteristics, and Documentation
The Clinical History
Introduction
A clinical history is a comprehensive document containing all data and information concerning a patient’s health and disease, obtained through interviews, physical examinations, and additional healthcare procedures.
Functions of the Clinical History
The clinical history serves several crucial functions:
- Care: Provides information support for personalized patient attendance, enabling healthcare professionals to understand the patient’s condition and provide appropriate
Occupational Health and Safety: A Comprehensive Guide
Occupational Health
Occupational health aims to promote and maintain the highest degree of physical, mental, and social well-being of workers in all occupations. It seeks to prevent deterioration of health caused by working conditions, protect workers from risks arising from hazardous agents, and find and keep workers in a manner appropriate to their psychological, sociological, and physical abilities. In short, occupational health strives to adapt work to man and each man to his work.
Occupational
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What is Cancer?
Cancer is a group of diseases characterized by the uncontrolled growth and division of abnormal cells, known as cancer cells. These cells can invade surrounding tissues and sometimes spread to other parts of the body (metastasis).
What is a Tissue?
A tissue is a group of similar cells that work together to perform a specific function.
What is a Tumor?
A tumor is an abnormal growth of tissue that results in an increased volume or swelling of a body part.
What is Cellular Differentiation?
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Pathogenesis of Inflammation:
- Vascular Changes: Vasodilation occurs, increasing blood flow, leading to congestion. Dilated capillaries become more permeable, allowing fluids to leak out and cause swelling.
- Cellular Changes: Leukocytes adhere to the vessel walls (leukocyte marginalization). They then cross the endothelium and migrate to the site of infection through a process called diapedesis. At the site of the lesion, leukocytes phagocytize foreign particles and live agents, a process known as phagocytosis.
Occupational Health and Safety: A Comprehensive Guide to Risks, Hazards, and Consequences
Health and Safety at Work:
Concept: We can define safety and health at work as all measures taken during the performance of work to protect the worker from the risks of injury and illness that it entails. (Within the working environment). Terminology: One of the problems that arise from the description of this material is its terminology. It was originally called “Industrial Hygiene,” which is inadequate because it regulates other subjects such as agriculture, trade, etc. However, the concept of
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Stages of Psycho-Social Development (E. Erikson)
5 Stages:
Stage 1: Trust vs. Mistrust (0-18 Months)
- 0-18 Months
- Most fundamental stage in life
- Infant development is based on trust, dependability, and quality of caregiver
- If a child develops trust, they will feel secure and safe in the world
- If a caregiver is unavailable or rejecting… Failure to develop trust will result in fear and a belief that the world is unpredictable
Stage 2: Autonomy vs. Shame & Doubt (18 Months – 3 Years)
- 18 Months – 3 Years
- Greater