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Case Taking - Acute Case - 5fb39a204c288
Case Taking - Acute Case - 5fb39a204c288
Dr.Priyanka P S
Assistant Professor
Dept .of Repertory, SKHMC
ACUTE CASE TAKING
Dr.Priyanka P S
Assistant Professor
Dept .of Repertory, SKHMC
DEFINE CASE TAKING
CASE TAKING is a unique art of getting into
conversation ,observation and collecting
information from patient as well as from by
standers to define the patient as a person and
diagnose the disease.
HAHNEMANNIAN CLASSIFICATION OF DISEASE
BASED ON CAUSATION
outcome.
c) Clinical Subjects
And
APHORISM: 72
ACUTE DISEASES are defined as diseases , which begin
in chronic diseases.
The acute miasm comes on either with sufficient violence to
or
in chronic diseases.
APHORISM :73
disease is caused by
Excess in food
.
SPORADIC A/C DISEASE
It is caused by
It is excited by
Calamities of war
Inundation, famine
Acute miasm
CASE TAKING IN ACUTE DISEASES
Aphorism 99
It is very easy to take a case in acute disease, because all the
phenomena and the deviation from the health that has been
recently lost are still in the memory of the patient and relatives.
Physician wants to know everything in such cases also, but
he has much less to inquire into.
In acute disease the presenting complaints are very prominent
is to be ascertained.
MANAGEMENT
dealing with the acute state alone, and do not at the same time
APHORISM 262,263
gratified desire.
2. Temperature and clothings- the temperature of the room and
year.
In epidemic disease the disease cause might be same or a fixed
all the patient confirm to ,but each individual patient adds his
individual case.
epidemics.
Take the case regarding the a/c complaint only, and prescribe
on that with out considering the c/c disease.
We have to pay little attention to the chronic symptoms,
because a/c disease have sudden onset and decline and they
are so violent and they give no time for a detailed case taking.
KENT'S VIEW IN A/C CASETAKING