Book of Style 2nd edition....

• Kay Ciel/KCL - SHALYN
  • Book of Style 2nd edition.... - smurf
    • hmmmm so BOS is contradictory on this.... - tho the MDs prefer KCl......sm
  • Yes, in answer to your question.... - KCl is the preferred way also....no msg
  • KCl vs Kay Ciel - mthanded

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Do you abbreviate mg, ml, 02 etc if the account instructions say to spell out abbreviations as per book of style? 

Have ordered book, not here yet.  Thanks in advance for help.

really, we cannot tell you the answer, albeit for 20 years, Webster's Merriam dictionary has it with no hypen (same with most re- words)...but it's really up to your client(s) and also the Book Of Style by the AAMT really spells it out.....somewhere in the huge nearly 600 page book........

good luck :)

Anyone have any good web links to sum up AAMT BOS Second Edition - Don't have book yet...Thanks

Working for a new company -- they say all meds in a paragraph be separated by semi-colons as well as semi-colon use in parts of the PE.  They seem to imply that I am some kind of incompetent fool for not doing this automatically.  I've been an MT for 25+ years, and a few of my accounts were for some of the most prestigious medical facilities in the U.S. and have never routinely done this.  Is this a new AAMT style rule?  I wouldn't be questioning this if it was a hospital preference, but it's the whole little smarmy company.....

Sorry so cranky.

"history of present illness" within the report, such as "see history of present illness above", do you capitalize the letters such as "see History of Present Illness above"?  Also, such as "see Review of Systems below"?  Do we keep them lower case or upper case when they are used within the report? 

Thank you. I'm confused and I hope this question makes sense.

OP note - he says Megan-style 133 500 cc full volume tissue expander.  Cannot find Megan or Megann. 

Just thought I would pass on some information recently sent to me.

AAMT BOS  (Book of Style), 2nd edition

periods
Do not use periods within or at the end of most abbreviations, including acronyms, abbreviated units of measure, and brief forms. Use a period at the end of abbreviated English units of measure if they may be misread without the period. Better still, write out most English units of measure, thereby avoiding this use of a period at the end of an abbreviation.

wbc
WBC
mg
exam
prep
inch preferred to in. (Do not use in meaning inch without a period.)

However, use periods in lowercase drug-related abbreviations.
b.i.d.
q.4 h. = note it is "q.4" and then a space before the "h."
p.o.
p.r.n.

If a sentence terminates with an abbreviation that requires a period, do not add another period.
He takes Valium 5 mg q.a.m.
not He takes Valium 5 mg q.a.m..

plurals
Use a lowercase s without an apostrophe to form the plural of capitalized abbreviations, acronyms, and brief forms.
EEGs
PVCs
CABGs
exams

Use 's to form the plural of lowercase abbreviations.
rbc's
Use 's to form the plural of single-letter abbreviations.
X's

Hyphens and adjectives

15-year-old boy
The patient is a 33-year-old.
2-year 5-month-old child (note no comma in this)
5-1/2-year-old girl
1-month course
.38-caliber pistol - note no leading zero here - see below
two-thirds full
one-half normal saline
half-normal saline
She was panic-stricken
20-pack-year history
self-medicated
shell-like
 
For quantities less than 1, place a zero before the decimal point, except when the number could never equal 1 (e.g., in bullet calibers and in certain statistical expressions such as correlation coefficients and statistical probability).
0.75 mg
.22-caliber rifle

I'd stick with the national standard for clarity's sake unless instructed to stringently follow BOS.  There is staging that is very involved and would look convoluted without spacing in my opinion; i.e, pT2a pN3 MX, etc.