Hca 220 Appendix D

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Appendix D

Seven Organizational Approaches

A. Use the matrix below to describe each approach to organizing information about the body. Discuss how each approach can be used.

|Approach |Describe the approach |How might the approach be used? |

| |When the body is divided into sections that go from front | when a patient in a hospital needs to have a general |

|Body planes and directions |to back, left to right and from the top to the body to the|x-ray done or a MRI a doctor may decide he need to see|

| |bottom by using a midsagittal, transverse, and coronal |a specific body part from a particular angle, like the|

| |plane with movement going towards or away from these |front and back of the patients lung. |

| |planes. | |

| |This approach is the study of the human body’s cavities |This approach can be used to identify and even study |

| |and the organs that are protected by it. |the different organs in the body based on each cavity |

|Body cavities | |such as the spinal cord which is protected by the |

| | |spinal cavity. |

| |This approach is the dividing of the abdomenpelvic area |This is good for studying organs and identifying their|

|Quadrant and regions |in to four quadrants that is helpful during examination of|respective location. For example the heart is in the |

| |the body’s internal...