The word "therapy" has Greek origins and means "recovery" or "treatment". Also, in the modern structure of he alth care in many countries, this concept refers only to the adult population, that is, to adult citizens, and medical care itself consists in the conservative management of patients until complete recovery or before or after transfer to surgical methods. That is why there is a therapeutic department in any multidisciplinary medical institution, whether it is a hospital or a polyclinic. Now consider the concept in more detail.
What hospitals are made of
In general, any hospital has in its structure an administrative building, an archive, an emergency room, auxiliary diagnostic rooms (ultrasound, X-ray room, endoscopic methods) and, in fact, a specialized medical wing (surgical and therapeutic department). Maternity institutions (maternity hospitals, perinatal centers) are located separately. However, if this is a district feldsher's station or a small hospital, then there is always a surgical, therapeutic andpediatric department. In other words, patients with many nosological units are located and served together.
Therapeutic profile structure
If this is a multidisciplinary medical institution with a large territory, then the therapeutic department of the hospital is divided into components. For example, it can be rheumatology, endocrinology, gastroenterology, neurology, pulmonology, cardiology departments and many others. Thus, patients with diseases of different directions are located and served separately. This is convenient both for the administration and staff, and for the patients themselves, since it is much easier to distribute auxiliary equipment, drugs, provide food and care for patients. So, for example, in the therapeutic department of the hospital there is no need to supply instruments for internal interventions and such a range of disinfectants as in the surgical department, where sterility is the main condition for operations.
In dispensaries
As for polyclinics, many specialists from various fields work in city institutions, which also requires an appropriate distinction between departments and buildings, since patients with infectious diseases come here every day. Naturally, it is necessary to minimize their contact with children and pregnant women. That is why the therapeutic department of the polyclinic is also usuallylocated in a separate wing according to the address areas. It should also be taken into account that patients with various pathologies, including infectious ones, turn to family doctors, and therefore in each office of the department there must be a quartz lamp for periodic treatment of the room.
More about therapy
This field of medicine studies "internal diseases" (that is, all nosological units affecting human organs): their etiology, pathogenetic variants, clinical variants, diagnostic, treatment and prevention schemes. The therapeutic department always works together with the laboratories and research structures of the hospital (endoscopic, visual, radiation), since not only the correct result of the diagnosis search is necessary, but also quality control and the effectiveness of therapeutic measures. The latter concept includes exclusively conservative schemes, that is, drugs, physical (UHF, electrophoresis, laser, magnetotherapy, etc.) and biological methods (immunotherapy).
Structure and meaning
Each therapeutic department has a certain number of beds, united in personal, two-, three-bed or more rooms, contains rooms-rooms for medical residents, nurses, separately - housewives with inventory, a kitchen, a dining room, sanitary facilities. Stay in the hospital, depending on the severity of the patient's condition, can be round-the-clock or daytime. In the latter case, this applies to discharged patients who apply before the end of the course of treatment.for receiving certain medical procedures that cannot be provided in outpatient clinics at the place of residence. Within the framework of the he althcare system, therapeutic patients referred from polyclinics through a specialized portal are en titled to free inpatient treatment with a full diagnostic examination. The exception is medicines and procedures that are not available in the hospital, or if patients wish to receive additional treatment, such as massage. At the end of the course, according to certain indications, it is possible to refer to preventive measures in sanatoriums and dispensaries.
