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Mesh

Mesh consists of semi-permeable barrier made of connected strands of metal, fiber, or other flexible/ductile material. Mesh is similar to web or net in that it has many attached or woven strands.-Types of mesh:...

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--- blood transfusion

Blood transfusion

Blood transfusion is the process of receiving blood products into one's circulation intravenously. Transfusions are used in a variety of medical conditions to replace lost components of the blood...

--- blood component transfusion --- erythrocyte transfusion --- leukocyte transfusion --- lymphocyte transfusion --- platelet transfusion --- blood transfusion, autologous --- blood transfusion, intrauterine --- exchange transfusion, whole blood --- plasma exchange

--- cytapheresis

Cytapheresis

Cytapheresis is the removal of a cell-based component of blood. It is contrasted with plasmapheresis, which is the removal of blood plasma.Types of cytapheresis include:* Erythrocytapheresis* Leukapheresis...

--- leukapheresis

Leukapheresis

Leukapheresis is a laboratory procedure in which white blood cells are separated from a sample of blood. It is a specific type of apheresis, the more general term for separating out one particular constituent of blood and returning the remainder to the circulation.Leukapheresis may be performed to...

 --- plateletpheresis

Plateletpheresis

Plateletpheresis is the process of collecting thrombocytes, more commonly called platelets, a component of blood involved in blood clotting...

--- hematopoietic stem cell mobilization

--- immunotherapy

Immunotherapy

Immunotherapy is a medical term defined as the "treatment of disease by inducing, enhancing, or suppressing an immune response". Immunotherapies designed to elicit or amplify an immune response are classified as activation immunotherapies. While immunotherapies that reduce or suppress are...

--- immunization

Immunization

Immunization, or immunisation, is the process by which an individual's immune system becomes fortified against an agent ....

 --- immunization, passive --- adoptive transfer --- immunotherapy, adoptive --- immunization schedule --- immunization, secondary --- immunotherapy, active --- vaccination

Vaccination

Vaccination is the administration of antigenic material to stimulate the immune system of an individual to develop adaptive immunity to a disease. Vaccines can prevent or ameliorate the effects of infection by many pathogens...

 --- mass immunization --- immunosuppression

Immunosuppression

Immunosuppression involves an act that reduces the activation or efficacy of the immune system. Some portions of the immune system itself have immuno-suppressive effects on other parts of the immune system, and immunosuppression may occur as an adverse reaction to treatment of other...

 --- desensitization, immunologic --- graft enhancement, immunologic --- lymphocyte depletion --- transplantation conditioning --- radioimmunotherapy

Radioimmunotherapy

Radioimmunotherapy uses an antibody labeled with a radionuclide to deliver cytotoxic radiation to a target cell. In cancer therapy, an antibody with specificity for a tumor-associated antigen is used to deliver a lethal dose of radiation to the tumor cells...

--- cytapheresis

Cytapheresis

Cytapheresis is the removal of a cell-based component of blood. It is contrasted with plasmapheresis, which is the removal of blood plasma.Types of cytapheresis include:* Erythrocytapheresis* Leukapheresis...

--- leukapheresis

Leukapheresis

Leukapheresis is a laboratory procedure in which white blood cells are separated from a sample of blood. It is a specific type of apheresis, the more general term for separating out one particular constituent of blood and returning the remainder to the circulation.Leukapheresis may be performed to...

 --- plateletpheresis

Plateletpheresis

Plateletpheresis is the process of collecting thrombocytes, more commonly called platelets, a component of blood involved in blood clotting...

--- leukocyte reduction procedures

--- leukapheresis

Leukapheresis

Leukapheresis is a laboratory procedure in which white blood cells are separated from a sample of blood. It is a specific type of apheresis, the more general term for separating out one particular constituent of blood and returning the remainder to the circulation.Leukapheresis may be performed to...

--- angioplasty

Angioplasty

Angioplasty is the technique of mechanically widening a narrowed or obstructed blood vessel, the latter typically being a result of atherosclerosis. An empty and collapsed balloon on a guide wire, known as a balloon catheter, is passed into the narrowed locations and then inflated to a fixed size...

--- angioplasty, balloon --- angioplasty, balloon, laser-assisted --- angioplasty, transluminal, percutaneous coronary --- angioplasty, laser --- angioplasty, balloon, laser-assisted --- atherectomy

Atherectomy

Atherectomy is a minimally invasive surgical method of removing, mainly, atherosclerosis from a large blood vessel within the body. Today, it is generally used to effectively treat peripheral arterial disease of the lower extremities...

 --- atherectomy, coronary

--- balloon dilatation

--- angioplasty, balloon --- angioplasty, balloon, laser-assisted --- angioplasty, transluminal, percutaneous coronary

--- catheterization, central venous

--- catheterization, peripheral

--- catheterization, swan-ganz

--- heart catheterization

--- catheter ablation

Catheter ablation

Catheter ablation is an invasive procedure used to remove a faulty electrical pathway from the hearts of those who are prone to developing cardiac arrhythmias such as atrial fibrillation, atrial flutter, supraventricular tachycardias and Wolff-Parkinson-White syndrome.It involves advancing several...

 --- catheterization, swan-ganz

--- electrocoagulation

Electrocoagulation

Electrocoagulation, also known as Radio Frequency Diathermy or Short Wave Electrolysis, is a technique used for medical treatment and wastewater treatment.- Medical treatment :...

--- catheter ablation

Catheter ablation

Catheter ablation is an invasive procedure used to remove a faulty electrical pathway from the hearts of those who are prone to developing cardiac arrhythmias such as atrial fibrillation, atrial flutter, supraventricular tachycardias and Wolff-Parkinson-White syndrome.It involves advancing several...

--- antineoplastic protocols

--- antineoplastic combined chemotherapy protocols

--- acupuncture therapy

--- acupressure --- acupuncture analgesia --- acupuncture, ear --- electroacupuncture

Electroacupuncture

Electroacupuncture is a form of acupuncture where a small electric current is passed between pairs of acupuncture needles. Another term is Percutaneous Electrical Nerve Stimulation ....

 --- meridians

Meridian (Chinese medicine)

The meridian is a path through which the life-energy known as "qi" is believed to flow, in traditional Chinese medicine. There is no physically verifiable anatomical or histological basis for the existence of acupuncture points or meridians.- Main concepts :...

 --- acupuncture points --- moxibustion

Moxibustion

Moxibustion is a traditional Chinese medicine therapy using moxa, or mugwort herb. It plays an important role in the traditional medical systems of China, Japan, Korea, Vietnam, Tibet, and Mongolia. Suppliers usually age the mugwort and grind it up to a fluff; practitioners burn the fluff or...

--- medicine, traditional

--- medicine, african traditional --- medicine, arabic --- medicine, unani --- medicine, ayurvedic --- medicine, kampo --- medicine, oriental traditional --- medicine, chinese traditional --- medicine, kampo --- medicine, tibetan traditional --- shamanism

Shamanism

Shamanism is an anthropological term referencing a range of beliefs and practices regarding communication with the spiritual world. To quote Eliade: "A first definition of this complex phenomenon, and perhaps the least hazardous, will be: shamanism = technique of ecstasy." Shamanism encompasses the...

--- mind-body and relaxation techniques

--- aromatherapy

Aromatherapy

Aromatherapy is a form of alternative medicine that uses volatile plant materials, known as essential oils, and other aromatic compounds for the purpose of altering a person's mind, mood, cognitive function or health....

 --- biofeedback (psychology) --- breathing exercises --- hypnosis

Hypnosis

Hypnosis is "a trance state characterized by extreme suggestibility, relaxation and heightened imagination."It is a mental state or imaginative role-enactment . It is usually induced by a procedure known as a hypnotic induction, which is commonly composed of a long series of preliminary...

 --- autogenic training

Autogenic training

Autogenic training is a relaxation technique developed by the German psychiatrist Johannes Heinrich Schultz and first published in 1932. The technique involves the daily practice of sessions that last around 15 minutes, usually in the morning, at lunch time, and in the evening. During each session,...

 --- suggestion

Suggestion

Suggestion is the psychological process by which one person guides the thoughts, feelings, or behaviour of another. Nineteenth century writers on psychology such as William James used the words "suggest" and "suggestion" in senses close to those they have in common speech—one idea was said to...

 --- autosuggestion

Autosuggestion

Autosuggestion is a psychological technique that was developed by apothecary Émile Coué from the late 19th century to the early 20th century.-Origins:...

 --- imagery (psychotherapy) --- laughter therapy --- meditation

Meditation

Meditation is any form of a family of practices in which practitioners train their minds or self-induce a mode of consciousness to realize some benefit....

 --- mental healing --- mind-body relations (metaphysics) --- psychophysiology

Psychophysiology

Psychophysiology is the branch of psychology that is concerned with the physiological bases of psychological processes. While psychophysiology was a general broad field of research in the 1960s and 1970s, it has now become quite specialized, and has branched into subspecializations...

 --- relaxation

Relaxation (psychology)

In psychology, relaxation is the emotional state of low tension, in which there is an absence of arousal that could come from sources such as anger, anxiety, or fear. Relaxation is a form of mild ecstasy coming from the frontal lobe of the brain in which the backward cortex sends signals, or...

 --- relaxation techniques --- tai ji --- therapeutic touch

Therapeutic touch

Therapeutic touch , also known as Non-Contact Therapeutic Touch , is an energy therapy which practitioners claim promotes healing and reduces pain and anxiety. Practitioners of therapeutic touch state that by placing their hands on, or near, a patient, they are able to detect and manipulate the...

 --- yoga

Yoga

Yoga is a physical, mental, and spiritual discipline, originating in ancient India. The goal of yoga, or of the person practicing yoga, is the attainment of a state of perfect spiritual insight and tranquility while meditating on Supersoul...

--- musculoskeletal manipulations

--- kinesiology, applied --- manipulation, chiropractic --- manipulation, osteopathic --- manipulation, spinal --- manipulation, chiropractic --- massage

Massage

Massage is the manipulation of superficial and deeper layers of muscle and connective tissue to enhance function, aid in the healing process, and promote relaxation and well-being. The word comes from the French massage "friction of kneading", or from Arabic massa meaning "to touch, feel or handle"...

 --- acupressure --- myofunctional therapy --- relaxation techniques

--- phytotherapy

Phytotherapy

Phytotherapy is the study of the use of extracts from natural origin as medicines or health-promoting agents.Traditional phytotherapy is often used as synonym for herbalism and regarded as "alternative medicine" by much of Western medicine, although effects of many substances found in plants have...

--- aromatherapy

Aromatherapy

Aromatherapy is a form of alternative medicine that uses volatile plant materials, known as essential oils, and other aromatic compounds for the purpose of altering a person's mind, mood, cognitive function or health....

 --- eclecticism, historical

--- sensory art therapies

--- acoustic stimulation --- aromatherapy

Aromatherapy

Aromatherapy is a form of alternative medicine that uses volatile plant materials, known as essential oils, and other aromatic compounds for the purpose of altering a person's mind, mood, cognitive function or health....

 --- art therapy

Art therapy

Because of its dual origins in art and psychotherapy, art therapy definitions vary. They commonly either lean more toward the ART art-making process as therapeutic in and of itself, "art as therapy," or focus on the psychotherapeutic transference process between the therapist and the client who...

 --- color therapy --- dance therapy

Dance therapy

Dance therapy, or dance movement therapy is the psychotherapeutic use of movement and dance for emotional, cognitive, social, behavioral and physical conditions. As a form of expressive therapy, DMT is founded on the basis that movement and emotion are directly related...

 --- music therapy

Music therapy

Music therapy is an allied health profession and one of the expressive therapies, consisting of an interpersonal process in which a trained music therapist uses music and all of its facets—physical, emotional, mental, social, aesthetic, and spiritual—to help clients to improve or maintain their...

 --- play therapy

Play therapy

Play therapy is generally employed with children aged 3 through 11 and provides a way for them to express their experiences and feelings through a natural, self-guided, self-healing process...

 --- psychodrama

Psychodrama

Psychodrama is a method of psychotherapy in which clients utilize spontaneous dramatization, role playing and dramatic self-presentation to investigate and gain insight into their lives. Developed by Jacob L. Moreno, M.D. psychodrama includes elements of theater, often conducted on a stage where...

 --- role playing

--- spiritual therapies

--- faith healing

Faith healing

Faith healing is healing through spiritual means. The healing of a person is brought about by religious faith through prayer and/or rituals that, according to adherents, stimulate a divine presence and power toward correcting disease and disability. Belief in divine intervention in illness or...

 --- homeopathy

Homeopathy

Homeopathy is a form of alternative medicine in which practitioners claim to treat patients using highly diluted preparations that are believed to cause healthy people to exhibit symptoms that are similar to those exhibited by the patient...

 --- magic

Magic (paranormal)

Magic is the claimed art of manipulating aspects of reality either by supernatural means or through knowledge of occult laws unknown to science. It is in contrast to science, in that science does not accept anything not subject to either direct or indirect observation, and subject to logical...

 --- medicine, African traditional

Traditional African medicine

Traditional African medicine is a holistic discipline involving indigenous herbalism and African spirituality, typically involving diviners, midwives, and herbalists...

 --- meditation

Meditation

Meditation is any form of a family of practices in which practitioners train their minds or self-induce a mode of consciousness to realize some benefit....

 --- mental healing --- occultism --- radiesthesia

Radiesthesia

Radiesthesia is the claimed paranormal or parapsychological ability to detect "radiation" within the human body. According to the theory, all human bodies give off unique or characteristic "radiations" as do all other physical bodies or objects. Such radiations are often termed an "aura".A...

 --- shamanism

Shamanism

Shamanism is an anthropological term referencing a range of beliefs and practices regarding communication with the spiritual world. To quote Eliade: "A first definition of this complex phenomenon, and perhaps the least hazardous, will be: shamanism = technique of ecstasy." Shamanism encompasses the...

 --- therapeutic touch

Therapeutic touch

Therapeutic touch , also known as Non-Contact Therapeutic Touch , is an energy therapy which practitioners claim promotes healing and reduces pain and anxiety. Practitioners of therapeutic touch state that by placing their hands on, or near, a patient, they are able to detect and manipulate the...

 --- witchcraft

Witchcraft

Witchcraft, in historical, anthropological, religious, and mythological contexts, is the alleged use of supernatural or magical powers. A witch is a practitioner of witchcraft...

 --- yoga

Yoga

Yoga is a physical, mental, and spiritual discipline, originating in ancient India. The goal of yoga, or of the person practicing yoga, is the attainment of a state of perfect spiritual insight and tranquility while meditating on Supersoul...

--- body modification, non-therapeutic

--- body piercing

Body piercing

Body piercing, a form of body modification, is the practice of puncturing or cutting a part of the human body, creating an opening in which jewelry may be worn. The word piercing can refer to the act or practice of body piercing, or to an opening in the body created by this act or practice...

 --- circumcision

Circumcision

Male circumcision is the surgical removal of some or all of the foreskin from the penis. The word "circumcision" comes from Latin and ....

 --- circumcision, female --- tattooing

--- hypothermia, induced

--- gastric hypothermia

--- antineoplastic protocols

--- antineoplastic combined chemotherapy protocols

--- chemoprevention

--- antibiotic prophylaxis

--- drug delivery systems

--- delayed-action preparations --- drug carriers --- insulin infusion systems --- vehicles

--- drug therapy, combination

--- antineoplastic combined chemotherapy protocols --- antiretroviral therapy, highly active

--- drug therapy, computer-assisted

--- hormone replacement therapy

Hormone replacement therapy

Hormone replacement therapy may refer to:*Hormone replacement therapy *Hormone replacement therapy *Hormone replacement therapy *Androgen replacement therapy -See also:...

--- estrogen replacement therapy

--- thrombolytic therapy

--- hirudin therapy

--- transcutaneous electric nerve stimulation

--- resuscitation

--- cardiopulmonary resuscitation

Cardiopulmonary resuscitation

Cardiopulmonary resuscitation is an emergency procedure which is performed in an effort to manually preserve intact brain function until further measures are taken to restore spontaneous blood circulation and breathing in a person in cardiac arrest. It is indicated in those who are unresponsive...

 --- advanced cardiac life support

Advanced cardiac life support

Advanced cardiac life support or Advanced Cardiovascular Life Support refers to a set of clinical interventions for the urgent treatment of cardiac arrest and other life threatening medical emergencies, as well as the knowledge and skills to deploy those interventions.Extensive medical knowledge...

 --- heart massage --- respiration, artificial --- resuscitation orders

--- parenteral nutrition

--- parenteral nutrition, home --- parenteral nutrition, home total --- parenteral nutrition, total --- parenteral nutrition, home total

--- blood transfusion, intrauterine

--- embolization, therapeutic

--- chemoembolization, therapeutic

--- diathermy

Diathermy

In the natural sciences, the term diathermy means "electrically induced heat" and is commonly used for muscle relaxation. It is also a method of heating tissue electromagnetically or ultrasonically for therapeutic purposes in medicine.-Surgical uses:...

--- short-wave therapy --- ultrasonic therapy --- ultrasound, high-intensity focused, transrectal

--- ischemic preconditioning, myocardial

--- diet therapy

--- caloric restriction --- diabetic diet

Diabetic diet

There is much controversy regarding what diet to recommend to sufferers of diabetes mellitus. The diet most often recommended is high in dietary fiber, especially soluble fiber, but low in fat . Recommendations of the fraction of total calories to be obtained from carbohydrate intake range from 1/6...

 --- diet, carbohydrate-restricted --- diet fads --- diet, fat-restricted --- diet, protein-restricted --- diet, reducing --- diet, sodium-restricted

--- nutritional support

--- enteral nutrition --- parenteral nutrition --- parenteral nutrition, home --- parenteral nutrition, home total --- parenteral nutrition, total --- parenteral nutrition, home total

--- exercise therapy

--- motion therapy, continuous passive

--- manipulation, spinal

--- manipulation, chiropractic

--- intervertebral disk chemolysis

--- ambulatory care

Ambulatory care

Ambulatory care is a personal health care consultation, treatment or intervention using advanced medical technology or procedures delivered on an outpatient basis Ambulatory care is a personal health care consultation, treatment or intervention using advanced medical technology or procedures...

--- peritoneal dialysis, continuous ambulatory

--- critical care

Critical care

Critical care may refer to:* Critical care medicine or intensive-care medicine, a branch of medicine concerned with life support for critically ill patients* "Critical Care" , an episode of the TV series...

--- intensive care --- intensive care, neonatal

--- hospitalization

--- length of stay

Length of stay

Length of stay is a term commonly used to measure the duration of a single episode of hospitalization. Inpatient days are calculated by subtracting day of admission from day of discharge. However, persons entering and leaving a hospital on the same day have a length of stay of one...

 --- patient admission --- patient discharge --- patient readmission --- patient transfer

--- institutionalization

--- deinstitutionalization

--- nursing care

--- home nursing --- respite care

Respite care

Respite care is the provision of short-term, temporary relief to those who are caring for family members who might otherwise require permanent placement in a facility outside the home....

--- perioperative care

--- intraoperative care --- postoperative care

--- terminal care

--- euthanasia

Euthanasia

Euthanasia refers to the practice of intentionally ending a life in order to relieve pain and suffering....

 --- euthanasia, active --- euthanasia, active, voluntary --- euthanasia, animal --- euthanasia, passive --- hospice care --- resuscitation orders --- suicide, assisted

--- withholding treatment

--- euthanasia, passive

--- photochemotherapy

--- hematoporphyrin photoradiation

--- ultraviolet therapy

--- puva therapy --- photopheresis

Photopheresis

In medicine, photopheresis or extracorporeal photopheresis is a form of apheresis and photodynamic therapy in which blood is treated with photoactivable drugs which are then activated with ultraviolet light....

--- balneology

--- ammotherapy --- baths

Bathing

Bathing is the washing or cleansing of the body in a fluid, usually water or an aqueous solution. It may be practised for personal hygiene, religious ritual or therapeutic purposes or as a recreational activity....

 --- mud therapy --- steam bath

--- electric stimulation therapy

--- electroacupuncture

Electroacupuncture

Electroacupuncture is a form of acupuncture where a small electric current is passed between pairs of acupuncture needles. Another term is Percutaneous Electrical Nerve Stimulation ....

 --- transcutaneous electric nerve stimulation

--- exercise therapy

--- motion therapy, continuous passive

--- hyperthermia, induced

--- ammotherapy --- diathermy

Diathermy

In the natural sciences, the term diathermy means "electrically induced heat" and is commonly used for muscle relaxation. It is also a method of heating tissue electromagnetically or ultrasonically for therapeutic purposes in medicine.-Surgical uses:...

 --- short-wave therapy --- ultrasonic therapy --- steam bath

--- musculoskeletal manipulations

--- manipulation, spinal --- massage

Massage

Massage is the manipulation of superficial and deeper layers of muscle and connective tissue to enhance function, aid in the healing process, and promote relaxation and well-being. The word comes from the French massage "friction of kneading", or from Arabic massa meaning "to touch, feel or handle"...

 --- acupressure --- relaxation techniques

--- cranial irradiation

--- pituitary irradiation

--- radiotherapy, computer-assisted

--- radiotherapy, conformal --- radiotherapy, intensity-modulated

--- radiotherapy dosage

--- dose fractionation

Dose fractionation

Experiments in radiation biology have found that as the absorbed dose of radiation increases, the number of cells which survive decreases. They have also found that if the radiation is fractionated into smaller doses, with one or more rest periods in between, fewer cells die. This is because of...

--- radiotherapy, high-energy

--- neutron capture therapy --- boron neutron capture therapy

Boron Neutron Capture Therapy

Boron neutron capture therapy is an experimental form of radiotherapy that uses a neutron beam that interacts with boron injected into a patient...

 --- radioisotope teletherapy

--- exercise therapy

--- motion therapy, continuous passive

--- rehabilitation of hearing impaired

--- communication methods, total --- lipreading --- manual communication

Manual communication

Manual communication systems use articulation of the hands to mediate a message between persons. Being expressed manually, they are received visually, and sometimes tactually...

 --- sign language

Sign language

A sign language is a language which, instead of acoustically conveyed sound patterns, uses visually transmitted sign patterns to convey meaning—simultaneously combining hand shapes, orientation and movement of the hands, arms or body, and facial expressions to fluidly express a speaker's...

--- rehabilitation of speech and language disorders

--- language therapy --- speech, alaryngeal --- speech, esophageal --- speech therapy --- voice training

Voice training

Voice training may consist of professional training in any of the following fields:* Vocal pedagogy for singing, particularly opera* Debate* Public speaking* Dialect training for actors who need to speak in a particular dialect or accent...

--- renal dialysis

--- hemodiafiltration --- hemodialysis, home --- peritoneal dialysis

Peritoneal dialysis

Peritoneal dialysis is a treatment for patients with severe chronic kidney disease. The process uses the patient's peritoneum in the abdomen as a membrane across which fluids and dissolved substances are exchanged from the blood...

 --- peritoneal dialysis, continuous ambulatory

--- contraception

Contraception

Contraception is the prevention of the fusion of gametes during or after sexual activity. The term contraception is a contraction of contra, which means against, and the word conception, meaning fertilization...

--- coitus interruptus

Coitus interruptus

Coitus interruptus, also known as the rejected sexual intercourse, withdrawal or pull-out method, is a method of birth-control in which a man, during intercourse withdraws his penis from a woman's vagina prior to ejaculation...

 --- contraception, barrier --- contraception, immunologic --- contraception, postcoital --- natural family planning methods --- ovulation inhibition --- sterilization, reproductive

--- insemination, artificial

--- insemination, artificial, heterologous --- insemination, artificial, homologous

--- reproductive techniques, assisted

--- embryo transfer

Embryo transfer

Embryo transfer refers to a step in the process of assisted reproduction in which embryos are placed into the uterus of a female with the intent to establish a pregnancy...

 --- fertilization in vitro --- sperm injections, intracytoplasmic --- posthumous conception --- gamete intrafallopian transfer

Gamete intrafallopian transfer

Gamete intrafallopian transfer is a tool of assisted reproductive technology against infertility. Eggs are removed from a woman's ovaries, and placed in one of the Fallopian tubes, along with the man's sperm...

 --- insemination, artificial --- insemination, artificial, heterologous --- insemination, artificial, homologous --- oocyte donation --- ovulation induction

Ovulation induction

Ovulation induction is the stimulation of ovulation by medication. It is usually used in the sense of stimulation of the development of ovarian follicles to reverse anovulation or oligoovulation, but can also be used in the sense of triggering oocyte release from relatively mature ovarian follicles...

 --- superovulation --- zygote intrafallopian transfer

Zygote intrafallopian transfer

Zygote intrafallopian transfer is an infertility treatment where a blockage in the fallopian tubes prevents the normal binding of sperm to the egg. Egg cells are removed from a woman's ovaries, and in vitro fertilised. The resulting zygote is placed into the fallopian tube by the use of laparoscopy...

--- extracorporeal membrane oxygenation

Extracorporeal membrane oxygenation

In intensive care medicine, extracorporeal membrane oxygenation is an extracorporeal technique of providing both cardiac and respiratory support oxygen to patients whose heart and lungs are so severely diseased or damaged that they can no longer serve their function...

--- oxygen inhalation therapy

--- hyperbaric oxygenation

--- respiration, artificial

--- high-frequency ventilation

High-frequency ventilation

High frequency ventilation is a type of mechanical ventilation that employs very high respiratory rates and very small tidal volumes. High frequency ventilation is thought to reduce ventilator-associated lung injury , especially in the context of ARDS and acute lung injury. This is commonly...

 --- high-frequency jet ventilation --- liquid ventilation --- positive-pressure respiration --- continuous positive airway pressure

Continuous positive airway pressure

Positive airway pressure is a mode of respiratory ventilation used primarily in the treatment of sleep apnea, for which it was first developed. PAP ventilation is also commonly used for those who are critically ill in hospital with respiratory failure, and in newborn infants...

 --- intermittent positive-pressure breathing --- Intermittent positive pressure ventilation --- ventilator weaning

--- blood glucose self-monitoring

--- renal dialysis

--- hemodiafiltration --- hemodialysis, home --- peritoneal dialysis

Peritoneal dialysis

Peritoneal dialysis is a treatment for patients with severe chronic kidney disease. The process uses the patient's peritoneum in the abdomen as a membrane across which fluids and dissolved substances are exchanged from the blood...

 --- peritoneal dialysis, continuous ambulatory

--- radiotherapy planning, computer-assisted