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[5] [1] PPE is known by a variety of other names, such as preparticipation evaluation, [5] preparticipation physical examination, [6] preparticipation screening, [6] sports physical, [2] sports physical exam, [7] examination for participation in sport, [7] and similar.
In laboratory medicine, a refractometer is used to measure the total plasma protein in a blood sample and urine specific gravity in a urine sample. In drug diagnostics, a refractometer is used to measure the specific gravity of human urine.
ICD-10 is the 10th revision of the International Classification of Diseases (ICD), a medical classification list by the World Health Organization (WHO). It contains codes for diseases, signs and symptoms, abnormal findings, complaints, social circumstances, and external causes of injury or diseases. [1]
Adults generally have a specific gravity in the range of 1.010 to 1.030. Increases in specific gravity (hypersthenuria, i.e. increased concentration of solutes in the urine) may be associated with dehydration, diarrhea, emesis, excessive sweating, urinary tract/bladder infection, glucosuria, renal artery stenosis, hepatorenal syndrome, decreased blood flow to the kidney (especially as a result ...
An example of a rapid, non-invasive, sweat-based drug test is fingerprint drug screening. [48] This 10 minute fingerprint test [49] is in use by a variety of organisations in the UK and beyond, including within workplaces, [50] [51] drug treatment and family safeguarding services [52] [53] at airport border control (to detect drug mules) [54 ...
For example, if a person’s actual blood pressure is 134, and blood pressure is measured on a dangling arm, the reading could end up over 140, which is considered to be stage 2 hypertension.
790.3 Excessive blood level of alcohol; 790.4 Abnormal transaminase/LDH; 790.5 Other nonspecific abnormal serum enzyme levels; 790.6 Abnormal blood chemistry, other Iron overload disorder; 790.7 Bacteremia (not septicemia) 790.8 Viremia, unspecified; 790.9 Other nonspecific findings on examination of blood. 790.91 Abnormal arterial blood gases
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