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Photography on the brain
Published in Lester D. Friedman, Therese Jones, Routledge Handbook of Health and Media, 2022
Psychiatry and neurology evolved into independent branches of study in the 19th and 20th centuries alongside rapidly changing photographic technologies. Soon after the advent of photography in 1839, medical professionals adopted photography as a tool for documenting studies and patient histories due to its perceived precision and speed of production. Most importantly, physicians conceptualized photographs as reproductions of reality rather than merely representations, attributing veracity to them and upholding them as evidence of their findings. Despite the need for case histories and captions to accompany images for contextualization, medical publications cited photographs as empirical evidence for positivist assertions. They proved useful to visualize not only illness but also theories of the mind and brain when such entities could not be seen directly. In other words, photography provided a means to visualize the invisible and, in doing so, influenced discourses on the mind and its presumed physical location, the brain (Foucault xii–xiii).
Photography in Hair Diseases
Published in Rubina Alves, Ramon Grimalt, Techniques in the Evaluation and Management of Hair Diseases, 2021
Photography is a leading tool in proper patient management. Ideally, multiple images should be shot covering all areas of the scalp. However, in hair disorders taking photographs remains challenging. To help dermatologists deal with this issue, standard protocols should be suggested, including a series of images taken in specific patient positioning, standard lighting, camera setting, and background [2].
Nursing Considerations in Necrotizing Enterocolitis
Published in David J. Hackam, Necrotizing Enterocolitis, 2021
Margaret Birdsong, Michelle Felix
Complications that may occur can involve the stoma itself, the surgical wound, or the peristomal skin. For ongoing assessment and for communication with other members of the team, we recommend photography, if possible, which can be uploaded to the Media section of the medical record.
Use of medical photography among dermatologists and plastic surgeons in Saudi Arabia
Published in Journal of Visual Communication in Medicine, 2022
Eman Bamoosa, Munira Alalyani, Hattan Aljaaly, Louai A Salah
For the past twenty years, medical photography has become prevalent. In 2015, Melam et al found that medical photography had been utilised by 99.3% of board certified dermatologist from 22 different states. Medical photography is found to be essential in certain specific specialties such as dermatology and plastic surgery as these have a highly visual nature compared to other fields (Milam & Leger, 2018, Hagan, 2008). It has been used for monitoring the status and progress of a patient, education and research purposes, and to take recommendations from other colleagues (Abbott, Magnusson, Gibbs, & Smith, 2018). Aside from the mentioned above, preoperative photographs under medical photography assist in surgical planning and provide a clear overview of a patient’s perceptions and requests by comparing photographs before and after surgical operation. It allows both parties, the surgeon, and the patient, to visualise and evaluate the outcome of the procedure accurately. Medical photographs are also a huge part of advertising and marketing (Nair & Santhanam, 2016). With the advancement of technologies such as smart devices and medical applications, medical photography use has been expanding and increasing throughout the years. However, practitioners engaging in medical photography should always be reminded to stick to the ethical and medico-legal standards. In an Australian study, it was revealed that although 92% of the dermatologists obtained consent verbally from the patient, only 23% used security protective equipment for patient photography (Kunde, Mcmeniman, & Parker, 2013).
Clinical photography processes (ClinPhoto) study for photo diversity
Published in Journal of Visual Communication in Medicine, 2022
Benjamin Collins, Pamela Pierce, Linda Felver
This theme captures the positive attributes ascribed to clinical photography by interviewees. The overall value of clinical photography was summarised with the adage, ‘A picture is worth a thousand words,’ repeated numerous times throughout the interviews. The primary benefit of clinical photography comes through clinical work. Interviewees often used clinical photographs to document physical findings in the medical record. Once images are stored in the record, they can be used to remind clinicians of the appearance of a finding at a later time, as part of consulting other clinicians who have not seen the finding in person, to track changes over time and to present the finding at clinical meetings. The interviews also detailed the benefits of clinical photography for medical education, considering it to be, ‘an essential teaching tool.’ The visual imagery of clinical photographs was considered to be beneficial for aiding recall. An interviewee explained how, ‘If you’ve seen shingles once or twice or three times, it just becomes a pattern recognition.’
Mobile Point-of-Care Medical Photography: Legal Considerations for Health Care Providers
Published in Journal of Legal Medicine, 2020
Page Y. Underwood, Kirk D. Wyatt, Clara Greaney, Chris Derauf, Richard A. Uribe, Joseph M. Colaiano, Thomas R. Hellmich
Photographs are invaluable tools for clinical and forensic purposes. In clinical practice, they serve as reliable and detailed documentation of a patient’s clinical findings at one point in time. Arguably, photographs permit clinical findings to be captured more vividly than they can be described with words in clinical documentation. Beyond its documentation function, medical photography plays an increasingly important role in the delivery of patient care. For example, photographs can provide downstream providers with additional and important insights into a patient’s condition. Furthermore, photographs can be used for clinical care through store-and-forward telemedicine. Given the high quality and value of photographs captured with modern mobile devices, the ease with which EHR-integrated photographs can be taken using a smartphone, and growing smartphone use among health care providers, the use of this technology will undoubtedly increase over time.