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Practical vectors in medicine:

On any given ECG
Calculate the AXIS of the movement of electricity (and say whether it is right axis, left axis or normal.)

On a patient with a broken leg
Set up traction on a vulcan frame

I'm sorry I don't have any pictures/vectors to give numbers. The solution will depend on the actual vectors involved.

You could probably make up a question about Buck's traction...

Incline the bed at 30degrees head down, with a patient weighing 80kg with his leg in straight traction for a leg fracture. Have a pulley at the end and a weight hanging from it. What weight (downward force) would you need to balance the pull from an 80kg male at 30 degrees head down?

Pull from this patient is 80.sin30.9.8 N

Equivalent force from the weight will have to be 392 N and the weight will have to be 40kg

Hmmm - maybe 30 degrees is a bit much. That's a lot of weight to lug about (or a big bag of water in some hospitals)

2007-03-02 22:49:06 · answer #1 · answered by Orinoco 7 · 0 0

In medicine, a disease causing agent is called Vector. Usually the term is applied to insects, ticks etc. that transmit disease causing parasites from one animal/man to another.
Classic example:Anopheles mosquito which transmits parasite that causes malaria
Solution: Destroy the Vector, prevent them from multiplying.

2007-03-06 21:59:04 · answer #2 · answered by Govinda 3 · 0 0

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