Category: C

The ability to acquire and apply a basic understanding of computer hardware and software to solve problems or access information.  

Any system that allows registered health care providers to request drugs, laboratory studies, or radiological tests by entering those requests in an electronic healthcare record.  

The use of a computer to interpret data, used as a basis for forming hypotheses, establishing trends, testing relationships, and making decisions.  

An interaction between x-rays and matter in which the incoming photon ejects a loosely bound outer-shell electron. The resulting change in the direction of the x-ray photon causes scatter, increasing the dose and degrading the radiographic image. Most interactions between x-rays and matter are of this type, especially at high energies.  

A person who lacks resistance to infection owing to a deficiency in any of the host defenses.  

An instrument or device that applies a compressive force, as in compaction of gold.  

In emergency cardiac care, the number of times a rescuer forcibly depresses the chest of a victim of cardiac arrest for each administered breath. The American Heart Association (2005) suggests a ratio of 30 chest compressions followed by 2 ventilations for each cycle of cardiopulmonary resuscitation.  

In mammography, a thin plastic device that squeezes breast tissue against the support table, in order to achieve either uniform pressure on all breast tissue, or a uniform thickness.  

A glove made of material that stretches; used to maintain pressure on and decrease the swelling in an arm or hand.  

Potentially life-threatening pressure on the brain produced by increased intracranial fluid, embolism, thrombosis, tumors, skull fractures, or aneurysms.