MT PRAC 1

What is Medical Technology?

 Application of procedure, information, and devices.

 Med + Tech
 Develop solutions to medical problems such as diseases
 Promote and monitor good health
 Branch of laboratory medicine

Heinemann – Application of principle of natural, physical, and biological science.

Aids diagnosis and treatment

RA 5527 (June 29, 1969) – States that Medical Technology deals with the examination of tissues,
secretion, and excretion of the human body and body fluids.

Science Related Discipline vs. Medical Technology

SRD MT

General Specific

Utilizes scientific method inquiry Utilizes scientific method inquiry

Applicable in research Applicable in clinical laboratory settings and

research

Exemptions

 Miracles
 Origin of existence
 Destiny and Future

Technologies

 Manual
 Automated
History of Medical Technology

 460 BC
 Hippocrates
 Blood, Phlegm, Black Bile, Yellow Bile

 600 BC

 Polyuria of diabetes
 Hindu physician discovered the sweet taste of diabetic urine

 1500 BC
 Vivian Herrick
 Beginning of MedTech intestinal parasites (Ascaris, Taenia) were first identified
 Wrote “Ebers Papyrus”

 Arabian physician proved etiological agent of skin diseases are parasites

 17th Century
 1632
 Anton Van Leeuwenhoek – Microscope

 1628 – 1694
 Malphagi – Founder of Pathology

 17th Century
 Jean Baptiste van Helmont – Gravimetric method of urinalysis

 Frederick Dekkers – Protiens precipitated when boild with acetic acid. Discovered urine
contains proteins
 Richard Lower – Animal blood transfusion
 Blood transfusion

 18th Century
 William Hewson
 Plasma and blood can be separated // Coagualable lymph
 1848
 Herman Fehling
 Qualitative test for urine sugar
 1860
 Rudolph Virchow
 Founder of Archives of Pathology in Berlin
 First to emphasize study of diseases in microscopes

 Dr. Calvin Ellis

 Microscopes in specimens such as tissues
 Dr. William Occan
 Lab findings are evidences in diagnosing
 Apothecaric Act of 1815
 Baron Karl Von Humbledt – Function of MedTech
 1871
 Harvard University
 “Learning by doing”
 1878
 Dr. William Welch and Michell Prudden
 First to apply Clinical Pathology
 First professor of Pathology
 1896
 First clinical laboratory
 Dr. William Osler at John Hopkins Hospital
 1908
 Dr. James Todd
 Wrote book called “Clinical Diagnosis by Lab Methods”
 1915
 Pennsylvania
 Required hospitals to have laboratories and technicians
 1922
 3035 Hospitals were built
 1923
 University of Minnesota
 First school to offer MedTech as a course
 1921
 Society of clinical Pathologists
 1936
 American Board of Pathologists
 1940
 Standard 2-year curriculum on college w/ 1-year training
 Philippines
 1944
 US brought healthcare team
 1945
 First Medical Facility (Quiricada, Sta.Cruz)
 After World War 2
 Laboraties recognized by Dr. Pio de Roda and Dr. Mariano Icasiano
 1947
 Training program by Dr. Pio de Roda and Dr. Prudencia Sta. Anna w/out certification
 1954
 Dr. Tirso Briones
 Offered 6-month training w/ certification
 Formal education began, syllabus by Dr. Sta. Ana
 Manila Sanitarium and PUC
 Offered 5-year course in MedTech
 Dr. Willa Hilgert Hedrick
 Founder of MedTech education in the Philippines
 1957-1958
 MedTech as an elective in the College of Pharma, UST
 1961
 Recognition of BSMT as a course
 1962
 CEU first batch of graduates
 1963
 FEU first batch of graduates

Problems and Needs in the MedTech profession

1. Manpower Shortage
2. Lab diagnosis
 Products are domesticated
 Low budget
 Onti lang yung may LIB or Lab Information System
Professionals in the Clinical Laboratory
1. Pathologist (Head)
Director

2 types of lab

 Anatomical
 Clinical

Clinical

 Hematology
 Microscopy
 Microbiology
 Chemistry
 Blood Bank and Serology
 Immunology

Anatomical

 Histopathology
 Molecular Pathology