PreMedical English
Topic outline
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Instructions
- Review the MedCram 45 glossary. (Use "Browse by author" to find my words.)
- View the MedCram 45 video. (Find one word in the video, that not already in the Glossary, for adding to the Glossary.)
- Mark the activity as completed.
- Add the word you chose from the video, and its definition, to the MedCram 45 glossary.
- This is the end of Topic 1 activities.
When Topic 2 is ready, you will receive an email.
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Instructions
- Review the terminology on the vocabulary list.
- Watch the CoVID-19 video.
- Take the quiz.
- Review supporting materials
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The video examines the role of the innate immune system in fighting a CoVID-19 infection. It also examines the possible use of hyperthermia and hypothermia in the treatment of the disease.
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- Saturation = the state or point of being full or at capacity.
- ICU = Intensive Care Unit
- Bolus of patients = Bolus - a large amount or a large number of something. e.g., Bolus of medicine, or bolus of patients.
- Isolation = A condition in which a patient is to have limited contact with other humans.
- Diminished = Reduced, to make smaller, to make less significant
- Innate immune response = The part of your immune response that is present at birth, which is different from your acquired immune response that is developed over time in response to infections.
- Down-regulated = to reduce the response to something over time.
- Fever / Febrile = condition in which the body temperature is about the normal range 36.1 -- 37.2 C
- in veto = research done in the laboratory on non-living systems or non-animal systems
- in vivo = research done in living organisms.
- Pneumonia = lung inflammation caused by a bacterial or viral infection, in which the air sacs (alveoli) fill with pus (dead white blood cells, dead infectious organisms, and debris from dead infected cells) and may become solid. Inflammation may affect both lungs ( double pneumonia ) or only one ( single pneumonia ).
- Hyperthermia = body temp. above the 40 C, the condition is related to a loss of thermal regulation by the body.
- Hypothermia = body temp. below 35 C, the condition is related to a loss of thermal regulation by the body.
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PDF file that you can download and print.
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Instructions
- Review the vocabulary
- View the video
- Take the quiz to see how well you understood the video.
- Review the reference (supplemental) material to start becoming an expert on CoVID-19
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- Incubation period: Time from infection to showing symptoms
- Supplemental: Something given in addition to, or above normal requirements, i.e., supplemental oxygen (extra oxygen)
- Panacea: a solution or remedy for all difficulties or diseases.
- Coded: a medical term for intensive treatment, often requiring CPR, to keep a patient alive. The term can also be used to refer to this process when it is unsuccessful.
- Demographics: Characteristics of a patient e.g., age, wt., ht., sex, comorbidities
- Onset: the beginning of a condition or disease. (i.e., the onset of symptoms)
- Obese: an overweight person with a BMI > 30
- Critical care: Care for those with immediately life-threatening conditions. The term is similar to intensive care, but be careful about using them interchangeably.
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Instructions
- Review the vocabulary
- View the video
- Take the quiz to see how well you understood the video.
- Review the reference (supplemental) material to start becoming an expert on CoVID-19
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- Agglutination: An immune response that causes cells to stick together to form a clump of cells. These clumps make it easier for the body to remove the cells.
- Antigen: Usually carbohydrates and proteins that are present on the surface of cell membranes that can initiate an immune response.
- Blood Donor: Someone who gives or can give blood to someone else.
- Blood Acceptor or Recipient: A person who can receive a particular type of blood.
- Codominance: When the gene from the mother and the father are both expressed in the offspring.
- Dominance: When one gene dominates over the other when paired together in the offspring.
- Genotype: The genetic makeup of an organism, i.e., what genes it has.
- Phenotype: How the organism appears based on the genes it carries.
- Epistasis: The ability of one gene to prevent another gene from being expressed in the phenotype.
- Anti-D: This is another name for the anti-Rh antibodies; if your blood reacts with anti-D you are Rh+, if it does not react you are Rh-
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Instructions
- Review the vocabulary and work through the include videos.
- Watch the primary video
- Take the quiz to see how well you understood the video
- For more information see the References
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- Perfusion (side) | The ability of blood to pass through the lungs and pick up oxygen.
- Altitude sickness | A condition in which a low amount of oxygen in the air (which exists at high altitudes) causes the blood vessels that supply the lungs with blood to undergo vasoconstriction, which reduces the amount of oxygen that can be picked up and delivered to the tissues.
- Hypoxia (hypoxic) | Low amount of oxygen in the blood.
- Ventilation (side) | For proper gas exchange in the lungs, you have to have sufficient blood flow (perfusion) and you have to have sufficient oxygen in the lungs (ventilation). An imbalance of either or both can lead to hypoxia.
- ARDS | Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome
- PEEP | Positive End Expiratory Pressure |
- Pulmonary embolism | A blood clot in the blood vessels that supply the lungs, which interferes with normal lung perfusion.
- Blood clots (thrombus) | A collection of platelets and fibrin that occurs inside of a blood vessel. |
- Low molecular wt heparin (LMWH) | A drug that prevents the formation of blood clots.
- Cytokine storm | This video is a nice introduction to the immune system.
- Ventilation/Perfusion ratio |
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Instructions
View the video.
Can you answers the questions below?
Reading Kawasaki Diseases as a Systemic Vasculitis in Childhood
Questions related to the video.
- What is meant by the word "lesion" mean?
- Which body system includes macrophages, monocytes and plasma cells?
- Examine the chart on Australia, do you see a pattern?
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Instructions
View this very nice summary of what we know about CoVID-19.
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Instructions
Watch the video to learn about the immune system. It will help you better understand much of the CoVID-19 news that you hear.
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Instructions
View this interesting video looking at why some people die from CoVID-19
Type II Alveolar Cells (Wikipedia)
Look at the link to Type II cells