Terminology/usage questions...please advise

• Terminology/usage questions...please advise - sm
  • According to the Institute of - anon
  • a couple of thoughts - SM
    • Excellent post. Couldn't have said it better myself! nm - nm
  • Does his first name begin with a T? sm - nm
  • verbatim is VERBATIM....bad advice he gave you..... - nm
  • verbatim typing - es
    • the word is subcutaneous, so it's NEVER sub cu - never separated, it's subcu......nm
  • Hope this makes you feel better - WI-MT
  • The account that I am on - sodiepop
  • Sounds like he was caught not being specific enough. - Me

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There has not been any interval change in his exam. 

I am questioning the use of the word interval in this context.  For a time, I thought the doctor was saying integral, but it is clear now that he is not.  Is interval the correct word to use when there have been no changes in the patient's exam from one visit to the next?

Underwent aortocoronary bypass x3 with a left anterior mammary artery graft to the left anterior descending, saphenous vein graft to the obtuse marginal and the posterior descending branch of the right coronary artery? 

Does this sentence seem okay?  I am not too sure of some of the words?  Thank you so much!

A flex-x of the c-spine x-ray was obtained today.  If the "x" stands for x-ray??

Help.. Please clarify the correct use of mm and cm.. is it 1-mm or 1 mm?

For a diagnosis of pelvic adnexal and omental adhesions, would you place a comma between pelvic and adnexal or not? 

Would it be: 

Pelvic adnexal and omental adhesions

or

Pelvic, adnexal and omental adhesions? 

I'm thinking no comma is needed, but the more I think on it, the more confused I become.  The adnexa are within the pelvis, and no comma is needed, right?

• This is form one Look Dic:
  
• 
  
• Nowhere is listed that 'proofed' can be used, only 'proofread'. Proof can be used as a noun or as an adejctive, not as a verb.
  
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• 1. proof -- (make or take a proof of, such as a photographic negative, an etching, or typeset)
  
• 2. proof -- (knead to reach proper lightness; ``proof dough'' )
  
• 3. proofread, proof -- (read for errors; ``I should proofread my manuscripts'' )
  
• 4. proof -- (activate by mixing with water and sometimes sugar or milk; ``proof yeast'' )
  
• 5. proof -- (make resistant (to harm); ``proof the materials against shrinking in the dryer'' )

Can someone please refresh me on the proper usage of follow up and follow-up?

thank you,

Cindi

doctor: the patient presented rectal bleeding, heme-positive stools as well as proctalgia.

how will I transcribe this correctly:

The patient presented with rectal bleeding and heme-positive stools as well as proctalgia.

                           or

The patient presented with rectal bleeding,heme-positive stools, as well as proctalgia.

help me please..

Dictated: The foot was prepped, Hibiclensed and draped in usual sterile fashion.

would you recast the sentence? My QA suggested that it should be transcribed "The foot was prepped, Hibiclens and draped in usual sterile fashion."

This doesn't make sense to me because the foot cannot be Hibiclens. I had typed it as dictated per our guidlines on dictator style, and i have .75% off my QA score on it. 

Does anybody have suggestions? How should it be transcribed??

~Trying to learn as fast as I can~  

Select the correct choice for each of the

following sentences.

      The patient will (follow up, followup) next week.

      The (follow up, followup) x-ray was negative.

      The patient was seen today in (follow up, followup). 

ANSWERS:

The patient will follow up next week.

The followup x-ray was negative.

The patient was seen today in followup. 

Page 172. 

This doctor likes to mention everything in his plans, from all the vaccinations/testing needed in the next decade to sunblock usage, selt belts and smoke alarms. 

This doctor likes to mention everything in his plans, from all the vaccinations/testing needed in the next decade to sunblock usage, selt belts and smoke alarms. 

 The only things that I know about the patient is that he is overweight, has dry mouth and sees a rheumatoligist on a regular basis.

Ever hear of Acoparesis?? photoparesis for orthopedics....Any help would be greatly appreciated!

"Cider" brush used for Pap smears. Could not verify this term in google. Your feedback would be appreciated.

Lord help me, I have now been given a fast-talking guy who is a pioneer in electrophysiology. I am at sea here.

Things like "Release activation with the HIS and all conduction was concentric," and ""pacing drive trains" are foreign to me.

Can anyone point me to an online source which specializes in EP terminology?

Thanks.

MS Contin 60 mg p.o. q. b.i.d. as well as Darvocet on a p.r.n. basis

Is this correct??? Every three times a day???

thanks

It is q.4 h. with a space per BOS, Second Edition, Page 146.

"We have inserted a space after the numeral 4 in q.4 h. on the advice of the ISMP so that the number is more easily and clearly read."

Screening skin test at the scratch level shows a 1+ D farinae, 2+ D pteronyssinus, 1+ cockroach, 1+ cat, 2+ Bermuda grass, 2+ common mixed grass, 2+ S/L AMBER THATCH PLEX, 3+ S/L ESHOWL, 3+ major tree mix, 2+ S/L MITERTROMIX 4+ S/L ALTERNARES SPORE.

TYIA.  Web sites for future reference would also be appreciated!

You either were taught wrong or misunderstood what your instructor was trying to tell you.

Try your theory of "any combining form can be put with anything" out here. You will not find cardiovascularity.

http://www.mercksource.com/pp/us/cns/cns_hl_dorlands_split.jsp?pg=/ppdocs/us/common/dorlands/dorland/misc/dmd-a-b-000.htm

Lilly

Hi, I'm writing a H&P for work and I need help!! The paitent is having ankle pain,

There is really no bony tenderness to the medial or lateral myleal(??) line. What "line" is this in the foot? Sounds like meleal/mylea line? Any help would be greatly appreicated!

in terms of titrating CPAP pressure.  Maybe you can get the word titrate or titration in there.  Maybe it's just a misspeak and he means as the pressure of CPAP went up.