HE228_ Medicine

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  • BICEPS JERK

    C5, C6
  • TRICEPS JERK

    C7
  • SUPINATOR JERK

    C5, C6
  • KNEE JERK

    L1-L2, L3-L4
  • ANKLE JERK

    S1
  • Elicitation of tendon reflexes
    • Knee jerk
  • Three aims of a Health Extension Officer (Main Focus of a clinician):
    1. Promote good health
    2. Prevent disease
    3. Treat diseases
  • Aims of treating a disease:
    1. Cure a patient (not always possible)
    2. Relieve the patient's symptoms (almost always possible)
    3. Reassure and encourage the patient and his/her relatives (always possible)
  • Three important skills of a HEO:
    Treat, prevent, and promote.
  • Two accurate terms used under-diagnosis:
    Prevalence and Incidence.
  • Prevalence

    The total number of persons with the disease at a stated time in a stated population
  • Incidence

    The number of new persons developing the disease during a stated time in a stated population.
  • Ten common kinds or classifications of disease
    Congenital, traumatic, inflammatory, neoplastic, degenerative, chemically induced, malnutrition, psychological, body system failure, and unknown.
  • The causes of many of these classifications of diseases are known some of the classifications are based on the cause of disease.
  • There are also causes of diseases that are not yet known about.
  • The most common causes of diseases in tropical and developing countries are infections with organisms, trauma, and malnutrition.
  • Epidemiology answers the questions of who, how many, when, where, how, and why.
  • Symptoms

    What the patient feels and presents to a clinician as a presenting complaint.
  • Specific questions (SQ) or Specific interrogation (SI)

    Questions asked to discover other symptoms of a disease of any other system of the body including those the patient has already talked about.
  • Past history

    Questions were asked about the disease, admission to the ward, drugs taken, treatment given by traditional healers, previous attacks of the same illness, other illnesses, operations, accidents, and previous and present pregnancies.