This week in Biomed we had several assignments that ranged from general note cards about our field of interest to a discussion post about Google Scholar research. In my general research about radiology, I took a dive into the different types of technology that are used in radiology. The last set of cards was focused on the history of radiology while this set was general knowledge. In this set of flashcards, I talked about the general purpose and makeup of the MRI while in the last set, I focused on who made it and when. The most interesting thing I learned about in this research was the Iodine Contrast Medium or ICCM for short. This medium is used to see the happenings of the body that a normal image usually wouldn’t pick up like the stomach, veins, arteries, bowel, or spinal fluid. This is useful to see how the organs that are supplying blood are functioning. ICCM is also harmless as it doesn’t emit radiation but only interacts with X-rays.
During our skills lab this week we learned how to wear sterile gloves. First, you put the glove on your dominant hand. Then stick your glove hand around the outside of the other sterile glove and move it over your non-dominant hand. If you touch outside the paper in which the gloves are contaminated the field is no longer sterile therefore you have to restart. This process is also called donning and doffing. Donning is the process of putting the gloves on and doffing is taking them off. The doffing process I still sometimes struggle with. You begin to remove your dominant hand until your thumb is exposed, then using your free thumb you go underneath the other glove and pull it off while wrapping your other dominant hand glove into the non-dominant one.
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