Anatomical
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Understanding Anatomical Positions, Directions, and Planes: A Key to Medical Accuracy, Lecture notes of Technology
A comprehensive overview of anatomical positions, directions, and planes, emphasizing their importance in medical contexts. It covers topics such as anatomical position, laterality terms, proximal and distal, medial and lateral, posterior and anterior, inferior and superior, deep and superficial, midline, and anatomical planes. The document also explains how these concepts are used in medical imaging and treatments.
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Anatomical
BASICS
The importance of Anatomical
Positions, Directions and Planes
Nowadays, humans can use GPS to get around. The
global positioning device (GPS) technology calculates
your location and the location of your destination by
calculating the time of the signal with the known position
of satellites orbiting Earth! However, this was not always
the case.
Medical Mistakes due
to NOT understanding
or clearly explaining
anatomical positions,
directions or planes!
- https://youtu.be/-BVErD8WWKM
ANATOMICAL POSITION
- In the anatomical position, the body is - upright, directly facing the observer - feet flat and directed forward - upper limbs are at the body’s sides - palms facing forward
ANATOMICAL
POSITION
Also, the “right side”
of the body, refers to
the patient’s right
side. The “left side”
of the body, refers to
the patient’s left
side.
Proximal and
Distal
- Proximal means towards the trunk of the body.
- Distal means away from the trunk.
- Proximal and distal are usually used when describing structures in the extremities.
Medial = Towards
the MIDDLE
Lateral = Towards
the SIDES
Inferior = Downward Superior = Upward
DEEP – Far INSIDE / Far
BELOW THE SURFACE of
the body
SUPERFICIAL – Shallow / NEAR theSURFACE of the body
Anatomical Planes
Anatomical Planes
- https://youtu.be/Xk_sAi9mgxg
Sheldon Expresses his Favorite Spot as a Position on a 4- Dimensional Cartesian Coordinate System. (The 4th Dimension, for those of you wondering, is the dimension of time.)
How are anatomical planes
used?
- Being able to pinpoint any specific point in a person's body is necessary for such advances in cancer treatments such as tomotherapy.
- MRI and CT Scan images are used along with sophisticated computer software to accurately calculate the precise location in need of attention.
- Afterwards, a computer can guide and direct electron beams (or other radiation) to kill the affected tissue while preserving the healthy surround tissue.