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Therapeutics

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Guide Notes: avoid: too general: prefer /ther with diseases: Manual 19.7+, 19.8.72; DF: THER
Also Called: Treatment
Therapeutics Categories.
Canadian Medical Guide Definition Bed Rest - Confinement of an individual to bed for therapeutic or experimental reasons.
Canadian Medical Guide Definition Behavior Control - Manipulation of the behavior of persons or animals by biomedical, physical, psychological, or social means, including for nontherapeutic reasons.
Canadian Medical Guide Definition Biological Therapy - Treatment of disease by the administration of substances which produce a biological reaction in the organism. It includes the use of sera, antitoxins, vaccines, cells, tissues, and organs. (From Dorland, 28th ed)
Canadian Medical Guide Definition Blood Component Removal - Any procedure in which blood is withdrawn from a donor, a portion is separated and retained and the remainder is returned to the donor.
Canadian Medical Guide Definition Cardiac Pacing, Artificial - Regulation of the rate of contraction of the heart muscles by an artificial pacemaker.
Canadian Medical Guide Definition Catheterization - Use or insertion of a tubular device into a duct, blood vessel, hollow organ, or body cavity for injecting or withdrawing fluids for diagnostic or therapeutic purposes. It differs from INTUBATION in that the tube here is used to restore or maintain patency in obstructions.
Canadian Medical Guide Definition Cautery - The application of a caustic substance, a hot instrument, an electric current, or other agent to destroy tissue. (Dorland, 27th ed)
Canadian Medical Guide Definition Chemoprevention - Use of chemotherapeutic agents as the means of preventing the development of a specific disease. (Dorland, 27th ed at chemoprophylaxis)
Canadian Medical Guide Definition Chronotherapy - The adaptation of the administration of drugs to circadian rhythms. The concept is based on the response of biological functions to time-related events, such as the low point in epinephrine levels between 10 p.m. and 4 a.m. or the elevated histamine levels between midnight and 4 a.m. The treatment is aimed at supporting normal rhythms or modifying therapy based on known variations in body rhythms. While chronotherapy is commonly used in cancer chemotherapy, it is not restricted to cancer therapy or to chemotherapy.
Canadian Medical Guide Definition Clinical Protocols - Precise and detailed plans for the study of a medical or biomedical problem and/or plans for a regimen of therapy.
Canadian Medical Guide Definition Combined Modality Therapy - The treatment of a disease or condition by several different means simultaneously or sequentially. Chemoimmunotherapy, RADIOIMMUNOTHERAPY, chemoradiotherapy, cryochemotherapy, and SALVAGE THERAPY are seen most frequently, but their combinations with each other and surgery are also used.
Canadian Medical Guide Definition Complementary Therapies - Therapeutic practices which are not currently considered an integral part of conventional allopathic medical practice. They may lack biomedical explanations but as they become better researched some (PHYSICAL THERAPY; DIET; ACUPUNCTURE) become widely accepted whereas others (humors, radium therapy) quietly fade away, yet are important historical footnotes. Therapies are termed as Complementary when used in addition to conventional treatments and as Alternative when used instead of conventional treatment.
Canadian Medical Guide Definition Contraception - Prevention of CONCEPTION by blocking fertility temporarily, or permanently (STERILIZATION, REPRODUCTIVE). Common means of reversible contraception include NATURAL CONTRACEPTIVE METHODS; CONTRACEPTIVE AGENTS; or CONTRACEPTIVE DEVICES.
Canadian Medical Guide Definition Cosmetic Techniques - Procedures for the improvement or enhancement of the appearance of the visible parts of the body.
Canadian Medical Guide Definition Decompression - Decompression external to the body, most often the slow lessening of external pressure on the whole body (especially in caisson workers, deep sea divers, and persons who ascend to great heights) to prevent DECOMPRESSION SICKNESS. It includes also sudden accidental decompression, but not surgical (local) decompression or decompression applied through body openings.
Canadian Medical Guide Definition Directly Observed Therapy - A treatment method in which patients are under direct observation when they take their medication or receive their treatment. This method is designed to reduce the risk of treatment interruption and to ensure patient compliance.
Canadian Medical Guide Definition Drainage - The systematic withdrawal of fluids and discharges from a wound, sore, or cavity. (Dorland, 27th ed)
Canadian Medical Guide Definition Drug Therapy
Canadian Medical Guide Definition Electric Countershock - An electric shock applied to the heart to terminate a disturbance of its rhythm. (Stedman, 25th ed)
Canadian Medical Guide Definition Emergency Treatment - First aid or other immediate intervention for accidents or medical conditions requiring immediate care and treatment before definitive medical and surgical management can be procured.
Canadian Medical Guide Definition Enema
Canadian Medical Guide Definition Exercise Movement Techniques - Physical activities which people can do to benefit their health.
Canadian Medical Guide Definition Feeding Methods - Methods of giving food to humans or animals.
Canadian Medical Guide Definition Hemodilution - Reduction of blood viscosity usually by the addition of cell free solutions. Used clinically (1) in states of impaired microcirculation, (2) for replacement of intraoperative blood loss without homologous blood transfusion, and (3) in cardiopulmonary bypass and hypothermia.
Canadian Medical Guide Definition Hemostatic Techniques - Techniques for controlling bleeding.
Canadian Medical Guide Definition Hygiene - The science dealing with the establishment and maintenance of health in the individual and the group. It includes the conditions and practices conducive to health. (Webster, 3d ed)
Canadian Medical Guide Definition Insemination, Artificial - Artificial introduction of semen into the vagina for the purpose of inducing conception.
Canadian Medical Guide Definition Intervertebral Disk Chemolysis - The dissolving of the nucleus pulposus of a displaced intervertebral disk, usually by the direct injection of a proteolytic enzyme, especially chymopapain, into the diseased disk.
Canadian Medical Guide Definition Ischemic Preconditioning - A technique in which tissue is rendered resistant to the deleterious effects of prolonged ischemia and reperfusion by prior exposure to brief, repeated periods of vascular occlusion. (Am J Physiol 1995 May;268(5 Pt 2):H2063-7, Abstract)
Canadian Medical Guide Definition Leeching - The application of LEECHES to the body to draw blood for therapeutic purposes. Such medicinal leeching, an ancient medical practice, is still being used in microsurgery and the treatment of venous congestion or occlusion.
Canadian Medical Guide Definition Lithotripsy - The destruction of a calculus of the kidney, ureter, bladder, or gallbladder by physical forces, including crushing with a lithotriptor through a catheter. Focused percutaneous ultrasound and focused hydraulic shock waves may be used without surgery. Lithotripsy does not include the dissolving of stones by acids or litholysis. Lithotripsy by laser is LITHOTRIPSY, LASER.
Canadian Medical Guide Definition Nutrition Therapy - Improving health status of an individual by adjusting the quantities, qualities, and methods of nutrient intake.
Canadian Medical Guide Definition Orthopedic Procedures - Procedures used to treat and correct deformities, diseases, and injuries to the MUSCULOSKELETAL SYSTEM, its articulations, and associated structures.
Canadian Medical Guide Definition Orthoptics - The study and treatment of defects in binocular vision resulting from defects in the optic musculature or of faulty visual habits. It involves a technique of eye exercises designed to correct the visual axes of eyes not properly coordinated for binocular vision.
Canadian Medical Guide Definition Patient Care - The services rendered by members of the health profession and non-professionals under their supervision for the benefit of the patient. (From Dorland, 28th ed, p269)
Canadian Medical Guide Definition Patient Isolation - The segregation of patients with communicable or other diseases for a specified time. Isolation may be strict, in which movement and social contacts are limited; modified, where an effort to control specified aspects of care is made in order to prevent cross infection; or reverse, where the patient is secluded in a controlled or germ-free environment in order to protect him or her from cross infection.
Canadian Medical Guide Definition Physical Therapy Techniques - Therapies, including those used in the discipline of PHYSICAL THERAPY (SPECIALTY); employing physical phenomena such as temperature, light, water, and sound.
Canadian Medical Guide Definition Prescriptions, Non-Drug - Written directions for the preparation, administration, or application of a non-drug remedy. This includes prescriptions for corrective lenses, self-help and orthopedic devices, and physical therapy and rehabilitation measures.
Canadian Medical Guide Definition Radiotherapy - The use of ionizing radiation to treat malignant neoplasms and other benign conditions. The most common forms of ionizing radiation used as therapy are x-rays, gamma rays, and electrons. A special form of radiotherapy, targeted radiotherapy, links a cytotoxic radionuclide to a molecule that targets the tumor. When this molecule is an antibody or other immunologic molecule, the technique is called RADIOIMMUNOTHERAPY.
Canadian Medical Guide Definition Rehabilitation - Restoration to the maximum degree possible of a person or persons suffering from disease or injury.
Canadian Medical Guide Definition Remission Induction - Therapeutic act or process that initiates a response to a complete or partial remission level.
Canadian Medical Guide Definition Renal Replacement Therapy - Procedures which temporarily or permanently remedy insufficient cleansing of body fluids by the kidneys.
Canadian Medical Guide Definition Reproductive Techniques - Methods pertaining to the generation of new individuals, including techniques used in selective BREEDING, cloning (CLONING, ORGANISM), and assisted reproduction (REPRODUCTIVE TECHNIQUES, ASSISTED).
Canadian Medical Guide Definition Respiratory Therapy - Care of patients with deficiencies and abnormalities associated with the cardiopulmonary system. It includes the therapeutic use of medical gases and their administrative apparatus, environmental control systems, humidification, aerosols, ventilatory support, bronchopulmonary drainage and exercise, respiratory rehabilitation, assistance with cardiopulmonary resuscitation, and maintenance of natural, artificial, and mechanical airways.
Canadian Medical Guide Definition Retreatment - The therapy of the same disease in a patient, with the same agent or procedure repeated after initial treatment, or with an additional or alternate measure or follow-up. It does not include therapy which requires more than one administration of a therapeutic agent or regimen. Retreatment is often used with reference to a different modality when the original one was inadequate, harmful, or unsuccessful.
Canadian Medical Guide Definition Self Care - Performance of activities or tasks traditionally performed by professional health care providers. The concept includes care of oneself or one's family and friends.
Canadian Medical Guide Definition Sorption Detoxification - Elimination of toxic or biologically active substances from body fluids by interaction with a sorbent medium. The types of media include absorbents, adsorbents, ion-exchange materials, and complexing agents. Detoxification can be extracorporeal (hemodialysis, hemofiltration, hemoperfusion, plasmapheresis), or occur inside the body (enterosorption, peritoneal dialysis).
Canadian Medical Guide Definition Therapies, Investigational - Treatments which are undergoing clinical trials or for which there is insufficient evidence to determine their effects on health outcomes; coverage for such treatments is often denied by health insurers.
Canadian Medical Guide Definition Therapy, Computer-Assisted - Computer systems utilized as adjuncts in the treatment of disease.
Canadian Medical Guide Definition Tocolysis - Any drug treatment modality designed to inhibit uterine contractions in pregnant women at risk for preterm labor.

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