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• Diseases were treated as a mystery in the early era of medical diagnosis.
• The disease was believed to be caused by the negative interaction between the environment and the body.
• Hippocrates is the father of Medicine and the author of Hippocratic Oath.
• Hippocrates advocated the tasting of urine, listening to the lungs, and observing the outward appearance in the diagnosis of disease.
• Galen initiated a rudimentary and qualitative assessment of body fluid (four humors; blood, phlegm, yellow bile, and black bile).
• Medieval Europe practiced diagnosis by water casting (uroscopy).
• Physicians who failed to examine urine were subjected to public beatings.
• The first book detailing the characteristics of urine (color, density, quality) was written in 900 AD.
• In the 11th Century, Medical Practitioners were not allowed to conduct a physical examination of the patient’s body.
• In the 18th Century, Mechanical Techniques and cadaver dissection were used.
• In the 19th Century, Physicians began using a machine for diagnosis or therapeutics.
• Chemistry became pivotal in the diagnosis of diabetes, anemia, diphtheria, and syphilis.
• Medical technologists should ensure timely delivery of results as people’s lives are at stake.
• Medical technologists are expected to perform special procedures in diagnosing diseases, operating advanced diagnostic equipment, and special procedures like molecular and nuclear diagnostics.
• As a medical technologist, I accept the responsibilities inherent to being a professional, uphold the law, avoid associating with enterprises of questionable character, work and act in a strict spirit of fairness, use honorable means of competition, and conduct myself at all times in a manner befitting the dignity of my profession.
• Medical technologists should perform in accordance to the Medical Technology Ethics and the pledged oath.
• A medical technologist should act in accordance to the Medical Technology profession’s Code of Ethics and their pledged oath of practice.
• Medical technologists should uphold confidentiality as it requires health care providers to keep the patient’s personal health information private unless the patient consents to release the information.
• Medical technologists should be capable of performing clinical laboratory testing, both most basic and the most advance laboratory tests.
• Medical technologists should collaborate with other health care professionals as a highly-trained physician will only be able to efficiently treat their patient if laboratory testing, monitoring, drug prescription and dosage, and more are properly rendered and administered by other health professionals.
• Josh Hutchinson invented the spirometer used for measuring the vital capacity of the lungs.
• Julius Herisson invented the sphygmomanometer used for measuring the blood pressure.
• Rene Laennec invented the stethoscope, the first diagnostic medical breakthrough.
• Antonie Van Leeuwenhoek devised the microscope used to classify the bacteria by their shape and describe the red blood cells.
• Hermann Von Helmholz invented the ophthalmoscope, the first visual technology.
• Manuel Garcia devised the laryngoscope used to observe the throat and larynx.
• ENGINEERING CONTROLS: Includes physical changes in workstations, equipment, production facilities, or any other aspect of the work environment that can prevent exposure of hazards.
• PERFORMANCE EVALUATION: A systematic process intended to achieve organization objectives and goals.
• PERFORMANCE MANAGEMENT: Is simply a re-evaluation of the overall mitigation strategy.
• CHARACTERIZE THE RISK: The risk assert team needs to compare the likelihood and the consequences of infection, either qualitatively or quantitatively.
• DETERMINE IF THE RISKS ARE ACCEPTABLE OR NOT: This process of evaluating the biorisk arising from a biohazard takes into account the adequacy of any existing controls and deciding whether or not the biorisk is acceptable.
• ADMINISTRATIVE CONTROLS: Refers to the policies, standards and guidelines used to control risks.
• Hazard: Anything in the environment that has the potential to cause harm.
• ELIMINATION: Provides the highest degree of risk reduction and is the most difficult and effective control measure, involving the total decision not to work with a biological agent.
• PERSONAL PROTECTIVE EQUIPMENT (PPE): Devices worn out by the workers to protect them against chemicals, toxins and pathogenic hazards in the laboratory.
• DEFINE THE RISK: Must include a review of how individuals inside and outside the laboratory may be exposed to the hazards.
• BIORISK MITIGATION MEASURES: Biorisk mitigation measures are actions and control measures that are put into place to reduce or eliminate the risks associated with biological agents and toxins.
• SUBSTITUTION: The replacement of procedures or biological agent with a similar entity in order to reduce the risks.
• Risk: The possibility that something bad or unpleasant(such as an injury or loss) will happen.
• Willhelm Roentgen invented the x-ray when he discovered by accident that radiation could penetrate solid objects of low density.