Tell me what's wrong with me!
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Theme: Disease prevention and treatment
Competencies
Competence in Linguistic Communication
Mathematical competence in science, technology and engineering
Personal, social and learning to learn competence
Citizen Competition
Subjects and year by Educational System
Spain > Biology and geology > 1st ESO > Health and disease
Spain > Biology and geology > 3rd ESO > Health and disease
Enunciation
Virginia Apgar designed a test called the Apgar test, which consists of measuring certain parameters in newborns that are indicative of the presence of diseases and disorders in babies.
When a person has an illness, there are signs, parameters, that we can use to determine what illness he or she is suffering from and, after certain tests, to make a diagnosis. Some of these signs can only be seen by the sick person, they cannot be measured or seen by the doctor making the diagnosis. They are subjective. Such factors are called symptoms. However, there are other signs that can be measured and/or appreciated by the person diagnosing the disease objectively. These are called signs.
Four diseases are listed in the table below. Sort the signs listed below into the appropriate columns according to whether they are symptoms or signs (some may be common to more than one disease). Finally, add the result of the corresponding diagnostic test to the last column.
INDICATIONS: sore throat, chest pain, muscle pain, cough, high fever, shortness of breath, mucus, malaise, headache, loss of smell, tiredness, PCR positive, PCR negative.
| Disease | Symptoms | Signs | Diagnostic test |
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Flu
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Common cold
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COVID
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Pneumonia
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Observations and context
Since ancient times, women have practised medicine, even if, as was the case with Agnodice in Athens in the 4th century BC, they had to disguise themselves as men in order to do so. During the 10th century, women were not forbidden to enter medical school, and figures such as the Ladies of Salerno appeared, including Trotula of Salerno, who was able to practise and write on medical subjects under her own name. Later, access to medical studies was once again forbidden to women, until Elisabeth Blackwell managed to enter medical school, becoming the first woman to graduate in medicine in the United States in the 19th century. Virginia Apgar belongs to a tradition of women, including Hildegard of Bingen, who have practised medicine with extraordinary brilliance, sometimes against their own time.
Virginia Apgar was a contemporary of Jenny Rosenthal Bramley, a Russian physicist, known for being the first woman to obtain a doctorate in physics from an American institution, and Rita Levi-Montalcini, the physician who discovered the first known growth factor in the nervous system.
Description
-Short answer activity.
-Objective: To work on the concept of symptom, signs, differentiate these in some of the most common diseases.