Adult Screening
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- Created on: 25-02-15 17:30
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- ADULT SCREENING
- HYPERTENSI-ON TESTING
- Clinical hypertension
- Blood pressure consistently over 160/95
- Normal for BP to rise under when we get older and are under stress
- Pre-eclampsia
- Very high blood pressure - extreme condition in pregnancy
- More people suffer with hypertension than before
- High BP increases a person's risk of life threatening conditions
- Regular monitoring can help reduce the risk
- May be through medication
- Clinical hypertension
- SMEAR TESTS
- Recommende -d 6 months after first intercourse
- Then at 3 year intervals up to age 65
- Age 25+
- Too many false positives for under 25s
- Trying to get it moved to 21
- Detects abnormal cells in cervix
- Indicates a pre-cancerous condition
- 95% successful
- Results take several weeks
- Performed using a speculum and a specially shaped spatula
- Scrape off some cells to be smeared onto a microscope slide
- Now use a brush and send it away
- Recommende -d 6 months after first intercourse
- EYE TESTS
- Glaucoma
- Intra-ocular pressure (inside eye) increases
- Can cause patchy loss of peripheral vision
- Permanent if untreated
- Visual field tests
- Snellen
- Can cause patchy loss of peripheral vision
- Central vision last to be affected
- Opthalmic optician
- Applanation tonometer
- Measures intra-ocular pressure
- Applanation tonometer
- Intra-ocular pressure (inside eye) increases
- Astigmatism
- Bumpy cornea
- Makes some parts of vision better than others
- Series of black line on green/red background
- Some lines will look wavy/thicker if got an astigmatism
- Corrected with glasses
- Bumpy cornea
- Myopia (short sighted)
- Hypermetropi-a (long sighted)
- Presbyopia (age related)
- Glaucoma
- MAMMOGRA-PHY
- X-ray procedure for screening lumps and breast cancer
- Can reveal lumps that aren't apparent to touch
- Each breast compressed between a plastic plate and x-ray plate
- Spreads tissue over wide area
- Views taken from different angles
- Specialists inspect the x-rays
- Looking for dense tissue
- If lump is found, biopsy is later performed
- Routine screening for any women ages 40 with family history
- Other women aged 50 - 65
- Repeated every 3 - 4 years
- TESTICULAR CANCER - PHYSICAL EXAMINATIO-N
- Testicular cancer is rare in puberty and old age
- Most common in men early 20s or middle aged
- Has an extremely good cure rate when caught in early stages
- Regularly feel surface of testes
- Move loose skin of scrotum from side to side
- Should not cause discomfort
- Any firm lumps should be followed up by GP
- Lumps not usually tender or painful
- HYPERTENSI-ON TESTING
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