Work in groups. Answer the questions.

1. What are the three ways of a patient’s admission to a hospital?

2. What is written in a patient record?

3. What is an outpatient? What is a day patient? What is an inpatient?

4. Why are medical records so important?

5. What kind of information goes on a hospital registration form?

6. Where do patients sit while they wait for treatment? Which patients are seen first?

7. What is A&E department? What are the patients of A&E?

8. What cases are considered as emergencies?

9. What is a triage?

10. Why is working in A&E very stressful?

11. How should you treat a patient with severe bleeding?

12. What is CPR?

13. What does a first aid kit contain?

14. Who is always first at the scene and why?

15. Why are people usually grateful to paramedics?

 

 

VOCABULARY Describing pain

1.
Match the conditions with the types of pain.

Underline the correct options in bold.

Translate the sentences from Russian into English.

GRAMMAR Making comparisons

Open the brackets and put the adjectives into the correct forms.

Translate the sentences from Russian into English.

VOCABULARY Pain relief

Match the words with their Russian equivalents.

1. epidural	a) рожать
2. gas and air	b) обезболивание
3. give birth	c) закись азота («веселящий газ»)
4. wear off	d) исчезать, выветриваться (об эффекте)
5. go numb	e) эпидуральная анестезия
6. take away the pain completely	f) справляться с болью
7. pain relief	g) полностью блокировать боль
8. bear the pain	h) переносить боль
9. lose sensations	i) потерять чувствительность
10. cope with the pain	j) онеметь
11. feel light-headed	k) чувствовать сонливость, головокружение

7.
Translate the sentences from Russian into English.

VOCABULARY Alternative methods of pain relief

Match the types of pain relief (1-8) to the definitions (a-h).

1. aromatherapy	a) use of fragrant oils for well-being
2. analgesia	b) a pad used for warming of parts of the body in order to manage pain
3. yoga	c) use of fine needles to relieve pain
4. hypnosis	d) medicine taken by mouth or by injection which stops pain
5. acupuncture	e) a system of exercises for mental and physical health
6. meditation	f) a practice of concentrated focus upon a sound, object, visualization, the breath, movement, or attention itself in order to relieve pain.
7. chiropractic treatment	g) the therapist manipulates the bones in the spine to help treat pain
8. heat pack	h) the therapist talks to the patient when he or she is “asleep” to influence their feelings about pain.

Match the pictures to the types of pain relief in Ex. 9.

Fill in the gaps with the words from the box in Ex. 9.

centuries.

SPEAKING Questions to assess pain