List of medical tests
medical test is a medical procedure performed to detect, diagnose, or monitor diseases, disease processes, susceptibility, or to determine a course of treatment. The tests are classified by speciality field allowing to know in which ward of hospital or by which specialist doctor are usually these tests performed. This list is not exhaustive but might be useful as a guide.
Consulting Room Tests
These tests are usually performed in a consulting room by any doctor and require no advanced equipment.
- general
- Temperature measurement, with a thermometer
- Patient's Respiratory rate measurement
- Blood oxygen concentration measurement
- taking the patient's pulse
- weighing, and measuring height and girth
- measuring blood pressure
- specific:
Dermatology
Ear, Nose and Throat
- hearing test
- laryngoscopy
- vestibular tests
- electronystagmography (ENG)
- videonystagmography (VNG)
Gastrointestinal
Hematology
Laboratory
- biochemistry
- cytogenetics and Molecular Genetics
- immunology
- microbiology
Neurological
Obstetric / Gynaecological
Ocular
Radiology
- CT scan (B*2****)
- magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) (B*3****)
- nuclear medicine (C******)
- positron-emission tomography (PET)
- projectional radiography (B*0****)
- ultrasonography (B*4****)
Rheumatologic
Urologic
References
- Richmond, Donna. "Building an ICD-10-PCS Foundation for Radiology Procedures". www.icd10monitor.com. Retrieved 27 December 2018.
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