Texas Billing and Coding Guide
... Organization that is used to describe diseases, symptoms, abnormal findings, and external causes of injury. On October 1, 2014, the ICD‐9 code sets used to report medical diagnoses and inpatient procedures will be replaced by ICD‐10 code sets. The transition to ICD‐10 is required for everyone cov ...
... Organization that is used to describe diseases, symptoms, abnormal findings, and external causes of injury. On October 1, 2014, the ICD‐9 code sets used to report medical diagnoses and inpatient procedures will be replaced by ICD‐10 code sets. The transition to ICD‐10 is required for everyone cov ...
MINISTRY OF HEALTH PROTECTION OF REPUBLIC KAZAKHSTAN
... diseases are related to skin diseases. 1.3 Method of checkup of a dermatological patient The method of check up of a skin patient has some features different from the method of checkup of patients of other types. Having filled in a passport part of a case history, one should find out what a patient ...
... diseases are related to skin diseases. 1.3 Method of checkup of a dermatological patient The method of check up of a skin patient has some features different from the method of checkup of patients of other types. Having filled in a passport part of a case history, one should find out what a patient ...
Penicillin
... get someone to purify it until 1940. By 1940 he had perfected the methods for extracting and purifying penicillin. Many saw this as a very key in the development of penicillin, because it was the difficulty in obtaining penicillin that had caused Alexander Fleming to be so unsure about its future. ...
... get someone to purify it until 1940. By 1940 he had perfected the methods for extracting and purifying penicillin. Many saw this as a very key in the development of penicillin, because it was the difficulty in obtaining penicillin that had caused Alexander Fleming to be so unsure about its future. ...
STD Quiz Review What do I need to know
... What is the definition of epidemiology? (A) The study of diseases within a population (B) The study of medical treatments for infectious diseases (C) The prevalence of health care providers within a population (D) The rate at which infections are passed on within a country The following are importan ...
... What is the definition of epidemiology? (A) The study of diseases within a population (B) The study of medical treatments for infectious diseases (C) The prevalence of health care providers within a population (D) The rate at which infections are passed on within a country The following are importan ...
Syphilis
Syphilis is a sexually transmitted infection caused by the spirochete bacterium Treponema pallidum subspecies pallidum. The primary route of transmission is through sexual contact; it may also be transmitted from mother to fetus during pregnancy or at birth, resulting in congenital syphilis. Other human diseases caused by related Treponema pallidum include yaws (subspecies pertenue), pinta (subspecies carateum), and bejel (subspecies endemicum).The signs and symptoms of syphilis vary depending in which of the four stages it presents (primary, secondary, latent, and tertiary). The primary stage classically presents with a single chancre (a firm, painless, non-itchy skin ulceration), secondary syphilis with a diffuse rash which frequently involves the palms of the hands and soles of the feet, latent syphilis with little to no symptoms, and tertiary syphilis with gummas, neurological, or cardiac symptoms. It has, however, been known as ""the great imitator"" due to its frequent atypical presentations. Diagnosis is usually made by using blood tests; however, the bacteria can also be detected using dark field microscopy. Syphilis can be effectively treated with antibiotics, specifically the preferred intramuscular benzathine penicillin G (or penicillin G potassium given intravenously for neurosyphilis), or else ceftriaxone, and in those who have a severe penicillin allergy, oral doxycycline or azithromycin.Syphilis is thought to have infected 12 million additional people worldwide in 1999, with greater than 90% of cases in the developing world. After decreasing dramatically since the widespread availability of penicillin in the 1940s, rates of infection have increased since the turn of the millennium in many countries, often in combination with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV). This has been attributed partly to increased promiscuity, prostitution, decreasing use of condoms, and unsafe sexual practices among men who have sex with men. In 2015, Cuba became the first country in the world to eradicate syphilis.