Therapeutic Heat

Preferred Label : Therapeutic Heat;

NCIt synonyms : Heat Therapy;

NCIt definition : The application of heat to appropriate painful areas to improve blood flow and function and to reduce pain. It can be applied though many methods, using convection, conduction, or radiation. Conduction uses hydrocollator, paraffin, or other similar methods. Convection uses immersion hydrotherapy, immersion, forced fluidotherapy, and radiant heat. Radiation uses laser.;

Details

Origin ID

C21117;

UMLS CUI

C0150611;

Automatic exact mappings (from CISMeF team)
- Hyperthermy [ICHI action]
Currated CISMeF NLP mapping
- Heat therapy [MedDRA Preferred Term]
- heat therapy, nos [SNOMED Notion]
False automatic mappings
- Heat therapy (procedure) [SNOMED CT concept]
Semantic type(s)
- Therapeutic or Preventive Procedure [UMLS semantic type]

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