Medical Technology
Tags & Description
Medical Technology
Clinical laboratory science/laboratory medicine
Anna Fagelson
Branch of medicine concerned with the performance of laboratory determinations and analyses used in the diagnosis and treatment of disease and the maintenance of health
Ruth Heinenmann
Application of the principles of natural, physical and biological sciences to aid in diagnosis and treatment
Republic Act No. 5527 The philippine medical technology act of 1969
; an auxiliary branch of laboratory medicine which deals with the examination of tissues, secretion, and excretion of the human body and body fluids by various electronic, chemical, microscopic, and other medical laboratory procedures or techniques either manual or automated which will aid the physician in the diagnosis, study and treatment of disease and in the promotion of health in general.
Dr. William Welch (1878)
Opened a teaching laboratory in America at Bellevue Medical College;
William Osler
Opened the first clinical laboratory at the Johns Hopkins Hospital.
James C. Todd (1908)
wrote Clinical Diagnosis: a Manual of Laboratory Methods
Mrs. Willa Hilgert Hedrick
Founder of Medical Technology Education in the Philippines
Philippine Union College of Baesa
First to offer B.S. Medical Technology in the Philippines
PASMETH
Philippine Association of Schools of Medical Technology and Public Health
PAMET
Philippine Association of Medical Technologists
Clinical Laboratory
It is a facility that performs chemical and microscopic examinations of various body fluids
Role of medical techonologist
Observe, identify, analyze organisms and cells causing infection and disease
Ebers Papyrus
Oldest preserved egyptian compilation of medical texts.
Anton van Leeuwenhoek
made first simple microscope
Marcelo Malpighi
Founder of pathology
Rudolph Virchow
founder of cellular pathology
19th Century
Era of public health
John Snow
father of epidemiology; discovered that cholera was waterborne
Pathologist
head or director of the clinical laboratory
Medical Technologist
The person who has finished the four year course and has passed the licensure examination
Phlebotomy
This procedure uses slides with blood that undergoes smearing and staining to conduct a blood count.
Lavender Tubes
contains anticoagulant so blood does not clot
Red Tubes
does not not contain anticoagulant, blood that clots
Hippocrates
medical practitioner who is regarded as the father of medicine; author of the Hippocratic oath
urinalysis
Oldest laboratory procedure
four humors in man
blood, phlegm, yellow bile, black bile
Hindu Physicians
recorded the sweet taste of diabetic urine as well as polyuria in diabetes
Vivian Herrick
identified kinds of worms Taenis and Ascaris
Jean Baptise van Helmont
Introduced the gravimetric analysis of urine using a number of 24-hour urine specimens
Frederick Dekkers
Presented a test for the detection of protein based on boiling of specimen in the presence of acetic acid
Louis Pasteur
Discovered the concept of aerobic and anaerobic bacteria
Aerobic bacteria
only grow and survive in the presence of oxygen
Anaerobic bacteria
does not require oxygen to survive
Hermann von Fehling
Performed the first quantitative test for urine sugar
Hans Christian Joachim Gram
Devised his method that used Crystal Violet (Gentian Violet) as the primary stain, an iodine solution as a mordant followed by treatment with ethanol as a decolorizer.
Paul Ehrlich
Used aniline water and gentian violet (a cationic dye) to stain cells, and the cell walls would appear purple after staining.
Pennsylvania State Legislature
Passed a law requiring all hospitals to be equipped with adequate laboratory in 1915
Denver Society of Clinical Pathologists
organized in 1921
American Board of Pathology
organized in 1936
World War I
produced a great demand for technicians and laboratories
University of Minnesota
One of the first schools to establish training for workers in 1922
World War II
“Closed System” of blood collection was adapted
Public Health Laboratory
first clinical laboratory, made in 1945 in Sta. Cruz Manila
October 1, 1945
Dr. Pio de Roda and Dr. Mariano Icasiano (1st City Health Officer of Manila) reopened the Public Health Laboratory as the Manila Public Health Laboratory under Dr. Roda’s leadership
1954
Dr, Pio de Roda and Dr. Prudencia Sta. Ana together with Dr. Tirso Briones offered a six-month laboratory training with a formal syllabus
University of Santo Tomas
Dr. Antonio Gabriel & Dr. Gustavo Reyes started offering Medical Technology as an elective to 4th and 5th year pharmacy students before fully recognizing BSMT in June 14, 1961
Centro Escolar University
First batch graduated in 1962
Far Eastern University
First batch graduated in 1963