Online Class Notes (Tibo)

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work on developing answer / making answers more structured

Speaking exercise

I was a little nervous but all the points I present -> I presented all the points necessary  / I managed to do the most important.

sometimes i cannot catch what they exactly mean -> I was not always able to understand their questions.

When I present the adverse events some colleagues wanted to know some details about that. But I didn’t prepare so many details and showed an overall picture / general view.

Maybe I will have another presentation in 2 weeks.

the unit is gram per litter

I haven’t seen that word before / I have not met / have not encountered that word before.

the normal bpm depends on the age / varies based on the patient’s age. For an adult the range is 60-100 bpm. From 18 to 65 yo.

For a child the normal range may be beyond 100

For patients with severe diseases we usually use a machine that can monitor those vital signs in real time / use a vital sign monitor.

If it is not that severe the nurse will check the vital signs every 6h.

It is necessary for patient who are not stable. / we need to monitor patients who are not stable in real time with a vital sign monitor.
We need to monitor blood pressure because it indicates the condition of the patient.

We monitor the vital signs before or after the treatments.
If the patient runs into some severe conditions, in this case we can monitor common medical practices -> we follow/apply common medical practices for the (monitoring of the vital signs).

the bpm of someone who is always exercising / who goes to the gym regularly is slower than someone who does not.

There are also some other conditions or diseases and they result in / lead to slower bpm. It may indicate a heart disease. / a slower bpm may be due to going to the gym regularly but it could also indicate a heart disease.

We can detect a new method to cure patients, especially those with relapse diseases.
With standard care they have no method to cure / with standard care they won’t achieve a full recovery.

It is different for cancer patients. They can detect some special signals that lives of the cancer cells depend on / they depend on those cellular signals.

It is cell therapy, first you extract healthy Tcells and change their genomes to produce a target for cancer cells.
It is different from what is extracted, it has a weapon that can target and kill cancer cells.

Vocabulary

vital sign monitor (n) machine to check the vital signs of a patient
They use vital sign monitors in the ICU

vital signs (n) all the signs of life like bpm
We need to monitor the vital signs

  1. Gram (g): A unit of mass in the metric system. One gram is equal to one thousandth of a kilogram.
  2. Milligram (mg): A unit of mass equal to one thousandth of a gram. It’s often used in the dosing of medications.
  3. Microgram (mcg/µg): A unit of mass equal to one millionth of a gram. It’s also often used in medication dosing.
  4. Liter (L): A unit of volume in the metric system. It’s often used to measure liquid volumes in the body such as blood and urine.
  5. Milliliter (mL): A unit of volume equal to one thousandth of a liter. It’s also commonly used to measure liquid medication doses.
  6. Microliters (uL)

  7. Mole (mol): A unit of quantity in chemistry used to express amounts of a chemical substance.
  8. Becquerel (Bq): A unit of radioactive decay in the International System of Units. One Becquerel equals one disintegration per second.
  9. Meter (m): A unit of length in the metric system. One meter is the base unit of length.
  10. Centimeter (cm): A unit of length equal to one hundredth of a meter. It’s often used to measure body dimensions.
  11. Millimeter (mm): A unit of length equal to one thousandth of a meter. It’s often used in medical imaging and to measure small body dimensions.
  12. Celsius (°C): A unit of temperature commonly used in medicine to measure body temperature.
  13. Beats per minute (bpm): A unit of heart rate, commonly used to measure the pulse.
  14. Breaths per minute (br/min): A unit of respiratory rate, often used in clinical settings.

Pronunciation

weapon