Yep - got it - ended up with a 2nd note

• s/l a-va-syn-o-crosis - sm
  • avascular necrosis - MT50
    • Yep - got it - ended up with a 2nd note - and he was much clearer with his word - TY nm

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Just wondering if there is any general rule about transcribing noteworthy.

Also, status post; status-post.

Thank you.

? pulse ox 99% on room air which is normal per ______ interpretation.

what sounds like "mick" instrument and needle count. 

On another, says "sponge, _____and instrument" and that sounds like "lab".  Any clues are appreciated.  Thank you!

to thank everyone so much for all the help I have received on this website since I have become an MT.  Bless everyone of you.  I hope one day to help those also asking questions as you all have me.

Using an up-biting basket and a S/L 405 shaver a medial meniscectomy was performed.

TIA!

The iliotibial band was then split inline with the incision and retracted anteriorly and posteriorly with a _____ bow.  s/l charming.....

The procedure is a cemented bipolar hemiarthroplasty left hip. 

Should have went further in the note...sorry...another blank is

Attention was directed to the proximal femur, which was prepared with a box-cutting chisel, _____ canal finder and a trochanteric router  this sounds like "chauney"

This is an excision of a breast nodule.  Two questions:

1. The area was prepped with s/l Cloraprep

2. The needle was grasped with an S/L Alice clamp

This is the context of the report.  It sounds just like Waddellian.  He says this quite a bit and it stumps me every time....

PSYCHIATRIC:  The patient was alert and oriented x3 with a somewhat depressed and scattered mood, being very jumpy and quickly agitated by minimal movements or pressures in various areas such as supporting the leg while doing musculoskeletal motor examination for neurologic examination.  The patient definitely showed some ____________________ symptoms through our examination.  When the idea of psychiatric help in this manner was brought up in this case, the patient seemed almost excited to know this was a coming event.

This is a partial medial meniscectomy and synovectomy.

large s/l type 1 plica present - is type 1 correct?

This was resected back to a stable configuration using an s/l oslite shaver or 8 inch shaver (he mumbles) ???

This is for an amputation of the left hallux. 

Upon induction of IV sedtion a total of 10 ml of 0.5% Marcaine plain was infiltrated in a S/L Mayo block type fashion.

Mayo block??? 

This is what you are looking for.

http://www.fda.gov/cdrh/pdf/p000040.html

Lilly