Computers can be used in treatment.
by admin on Mar.09, 2010, under Uncategorized
And here is another situation. You came to the pharmacy to order a remedy for toothache. Pharmacy, in which you have applied, has a computer system that stores the medical history of each customer of the pharmacy. Before the pharmacist releases the medicine for you, he looks at your history of illness. Yeah … According to the testimony of “a computer, you have already taken another drug that was issued by the attending doctor. The combination of this drug with the medicine, payable from a toothache, may lead to undesirable side effects. Therefore, a pharmacist communicates with the dentist, and he recommends you to another drug.
These are just two examples of how computers can be used in treatment. There are also many other ways to use computers for these purposes in hospitals, clinics and laboratories. Here are some of them.
- Computers are playing an important role in medical research. They allow you to determine the effect of air pollution on public health of the area. In addition, they can be used to study the impact blows to various parts of the body, in particular the effects of impact in an automobile accident for the skull and spinal man.
- Medical data banks allow doctors to keep abreast of the latest scientific and practical achievements.
- A computer network used to send messages of donor organs needed by patients awaiting transplantation.
- Computer used for training health workers in practical skills. At this time, the computer acts as a patient who requires immediate assistance. On the basis of symptoms, issued by the computer, the learner must determine the course of treatment. If he was wrong, the computer immediately shows this.
- Computers are used to create maps showing the rate of spread of epidemics.
- Computer stores in its memory the history of the disease patients, which frees doctors from the paperwork, which takes a long time, and allows more time to devote themselves to patients.