Medical & Veterinary Interventions

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Abstractions about direct physical interventions on the body, covering diagnostic and access procedures (emergency ultrasound, fetoscopy), therapeutic or occlusive techniques (neurolytic block, vascular occlusion, injection), and a euthanasia method, cervical dislocation, sharing the theme of controlled physical intervention on tissue.

6 abstractions in this family — domain-specific abstractions that sit near one another in structural-signature space (k-means over structural-signature embeddings). Each is shown with its short description.

• Cervical dislocation — Cervical dislocation is a common method of animal euthanasia.
• Emergency Ultrasound — Emergency ultrasound, employing point-of-care ultrasound, is the application of ultrasound at the point of care to make immediate patient-care decisions.
• Fetoscopy — Fetoscopy is an endoscopic procedure during pregnancy to allow surgical access to the fetus, the amniotic cavity, the umbilical cord, and the fetal side of the placenta.
• Injection (medicine) — Absorption of the medicine from this tissue is slower than in an intramuscular injection.
• Neurolytic Block — This is why the neurolytic is usually preferred over the surgical block.
• Vascular occlusion — Vascular occlusion is a blockage of a blood vessel, usually with a clot.