PMTP Module 1 History of Medical Technology

• Medical Technology is defined as the application of diagnostic, preventive, and therapeutic medicine to monitor and improve the management of health conditions.
• According to Ruth Heinemann, Medical Technology is a profession concerned with the performance of diagnostic determination and analyses used in the diagnosis and treatment of the disease and the maintenance of health.
• Medical Technology is also defined as a profession which deals with the examination of various chemical, microscopic, bacteriologic, and other medical laboratory procedures or techniques that will aid the physician in diagnosis, study, and treatment of disease and in the maintenance of health.
• Medical Technology plays a role in the healthcare delivery system, research, treatment, and the use of machineries/instruments.
• Early personalities recognized for significant contributions in the field of medicine believed that disease is caused by a disruption between the environment and the body.
• Early documented works contributed to the advancement of medicine and medical technology due to high mortality incidence caused by diseases and conditions.
• In the 11th century, it was not allowed to conduct autopsies.
• In the 18th century, mechanical techniques and devices were used to understand the inside of the body.
• In the 19th century, machines for diagnosis and therapeutic devices were discovered such as Spirometry, a medical test which provides diagnostic information to assess a patient’s respiratory function.
• The 6th US Army left the laboratory and endorsed it to the National Department of Health in June 1945.
• The training was not well set, with no specific or definite period of training, and no issued certificate of completion.
• The 26th Medical Laboratory was reorganized by Dr. Prudencia Sta. Ana in October 1945.
• WW II ended in September 1945.
• The training program had a 6-month duration and a Certificate of Completion was given for successful trainees.
• Dr. Pio de Roda went to see the first city health officer of Manila, Dr. Manuel L. Quezon, where he presented his ideas and good intentions in preserving the remnants of the 26th Medical Laboratory and his plans in organizing new medical laboratory for the Manileños.
• Dr. Pio de Roda instructed Dr. Sta. Ana to prepare a syllabus of training for medical technicians in 1954.
• The Manila Public Health Laboratory was formally organized under the leadership of Dr. Pio de Roda in 1954.
• Dr. Pio de Roda instructed Dr. Sta. Ana to prepare a syllabus of training for medical technician.
• Dr. Pio de Roda instructed Dr. Sta. Ana to offer a Medical Technology course through the pioneering efforts of Dr. Papanicolau, acknowledged as the Founder of Medical Technology Education in the Philippines.
• Edward Jenner discovered immunity to rabies, 1796.
• Marie Francois Xavier Bichat identified organs by their functions, 1835.
• August von Wassermann developed immunologic tests for Rickettsiae, 1929.
• Philippine Association of Schools of Medical Technology and Public Health (PASMETH) vaccinated students against smallpox to prevent sepsis, before 1870s.
• Father of Microbiology: Anton van Leeuwenhoek, invention of microscope, 1660.
• Ernst von Bergmann introduced surgical procedures in Germany, 1902.
• James Westgard introduced the Westgard rules, 1980.
• Ellie Metchnikoff described phagocytes in blood and their role in fighting infection, 1886.
• Hans Fischer worked out the structure of hemoglobin, 1954.
• Joseph Lister proposed that surgical infections are caused by airborne organisms, 1877.
• Kary Mullis won the Nobel Prize for his work on the Polymerase Chain Reaction (PCR), 1992.
• Philippine Association of Medical Technologists (PAMET) conducted the first Licensure exam for Board of Medical Technology, 1922.
• Andre van Steirteghem introduced the intracytoplasmic sperm injection, 1998.
• Robert Koch discovered the cause of infection, 1880.
• James Thomson developed a poliomyelitis vaccine, 1973.
• Rene Laennec developed a device to observe the lungs and heartbeats in 1816.
• Baruch Samuel Blumberg introduced the Polymerase Chain Reaction (PCR), 1985.
• Hear-Lung machine was developed by Dr. Hear in 1939 as a new apparatus ready for testing.
• The sphygmomanometer, an instrument which renders the action of the arteries apparent to the eye, is also known as "Clinical Laboratory Science" or "Laboratory Medicine".
• Drinker respirator was developed in 1927 to assist paralytic anterior respiratory patients in their respiration condition using an artificial device or respirator.
• Elizabeth Kenny devised the Kenny method in 1910.