Tuesday, August 19, 2014

Why Medical Reference Cards Are Crucial To Medics

By Deanne Shepard


In a clinical setting, when physicians handle patients, they need to have vital information about diseases and ailments. With medical reference cards, they are documents that contain summarized information on different health issues. They contain information on medical values, procedures and tests that a practitioner or students might use as reference in the clinical setting or research institutions.

Such cards contain the entire information one needs on the various types of conditions. They can help medical workers go through the information pretty fast. One first type of referencing card is the adult infusion card. It is a guide for vasoactive drugs being infused to adult patients.

There is the infusion referencing card, which gives information on names of drugs being infused and the right quantities to be administered. This kind of card ensures safety to all medications administered through providing details on antidote when drugs are given as overdose. Administering drugs like antihypertensive is also explained in detail.

The pediatric referencing card provides information regarding different kinds of conditions that affect new infants and how to treat them. It also features names of drugs that can be used in the right doses without causing harm. Special procedures like how to conduct resuscitation to infants is also well explained.

ECG referencing tools are also available. They provide information on signs of early cardiac failure in neonates as well as pictorials so as to ensure right measures are taken quickly to save life. This makes one become an expert as all information concerning heart failure in both neonates and adults is offered. Such a card gives information on how to detect early heart congenital malformation to safe life of a neonate.

The ECG reference cards contain drugs and approaches on treatment of the conditions. In adults, it provides information on ischemic heart disease and hypertension. Names of drugs used to treat heart conditions are featured. Another type is the gynecological reference card that is used in the newborn units and reproductive health clinics. It provides information about safe delivery of babies and identifying abnormalities that babies are born with and ways to correct them.

Airway reference card provides detailed information about inserting tubes to airway tract, and how to remove them safely without causing harm to a patient. Details on treating infections of the airways are also provided to ensure there is safety of the airway whenever a procedure is done. These cards act as life saving tools enabling one to refer quickly whenever an emergency arises.

Reference cards can serve as life saving tools by providing quick access to most medical information without consulting or asking other doctors. Keeping all information in your head as a medicine practitioner can be difficult but through these references, one can obtain all relevant details instantly without hectic. The cards are portable and one can make them as software in smartphones for easy access of information when in the clinical settings. They can provide essential details when handling a patient.




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