Body Scanning
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- Created on: 24-05-17 09:52
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- Body Scanning
- Advantages
- Surgeon will be better prepared as they know what they will find
- Doctor can accurately diagnose without the need for surgery
- Leads to faster recovery because of the other reasons
- Helps to determinie when surgeries are necessary
- reduces the length of hospitalization
- Disadvantages
- Can be expensive to purchase + the extra expenses of maintaining + training if the users don't know how to use it
- Health risk is increased because of exposure to radiation which is toxic and in large amounts life threatening as it kills the bodies cells
- Can be claustrophobic = patients have to spend a long time in a MRI scan + keep still which not all patients can do
- MRI Scanning
- provides details about a persons tissue which allows for the detection of brain tumors or disc bulges
- Magnetic resonance imaging = MRI
- CAT Scanning
- produces a complete 3D model of a patients bones and internal organs
- Computerised tomography = CAT
- Advantages
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