Preventive Medicine

"Prevention is better than cure"

Most of the Diseases and Disorders are preventable, if properly screened and intervened at the right time. Various International Health Authorities have been releasing guidelines for “Preventive Medicine” time and again, but the execution at the field level is minimum.

It’s very important that we define the strategies for “Preventive Medicine” keeping in account the local prevalent factors and available resources.

Commonly available and recommended “Preventive Medicine” strategies:

• Vitals and Anthropometric monitoring:
  1. Blood Pressure
  2. Pulse Rate
  3. Height
  4. Weight
  5. BMI
  6. Body Temperature
• Clinical Examinations:
  1. Routine Physical Examination
  2. Heart sounds
  3. Heart Rhythm
  4. Respiratory Rate
  5. Respiratory sounds
  6. Abdominal Examination
  7. Cognition Testing
  8. Oral Examination
  9. Visual Acuity
  10. IOP
  11. Perimetry
  12. Fundoscopy
  13. ENT examination
  14. Musculoskeletal Testing
  15. Breast Examination
  16. Scrotal Examination
  17. Per Rectal Examination
  18. Per Vaginal Examination
  19. Others
• Psychological Assessment
• Social, Professional and Financial assessment
• Screening Lab Tests :
  1. Haemogram
  2. HbA1c
  3. Kidney profile
  4. Liver Profile
  5. Lipid Profile
  6. BSL (Fasting, PP, Random)
  7. CRP
  8. Thyroid Profile
  9. Vitamin D
  10. Vitamin B12
  11. Iron Studies
  12. PSA
  13. Tumor Markers (CA-125, CEA, CA-19-9 etc)
  14. Heavy Metals assay
  15. Urine analysis
  16. Stool analysis
• Other Imaging & Screening interventions:
  1. ECG
  2. Stress Test
  3. Echocardiography
  4. Pulse Oximetry
  5. Audiometry
  6. Spirometry
  7. Holter monitoring
  8. Continuous Glucose Monitoring (CGM)
  9. Ultrasound Abdomen/Pelvis
  10. Ultrasound Breast
  11. PAP smear
  12. Mammogram
  13. DEXA Scan
  14. Colonoscopy

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