acronym help and a funny!
Posted By: Colleen on 2009-04-30
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Subject: acronym help and a funny!
 I am trying to find out what exactly CHAD (as in the score for predicting stroke risk) stands for-anyone know??
Funny thing-l was checking Medilexicon for it and it also stands for "Chinese Hamsters with Spontaneous Diabetes" and "Chinese Hamsters of the Asahikawa Colony" although these do not match the letters in the acronym. My son and I were just laughing it up over this one and wondering if some country funded a study somewhere to study hamsters in China who spontaneously develop Diabetes!
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Probably BUS, it is an acronym, look and see.
Subject: Probably BUS, it is an acronym, look and see.
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Help with acronym.
Subject: Help with acronym.
Dictator says (sounds like) BTRA (?) with endometrial ablation. I can't find that or anything similar to it and can't figure what it could be. TIA for help!
acronym
Subject: acronym
Patient had recent prostatectomy. Dr. says s/l ISC or IFC or IC is improving and to continue Kegels. I'm sure she's referring to stress incontinence, but I can't figure out what the acronym should be.
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acronym help
Subject: acronym help
Under assessment, doctor dictates:
"FEN". Patient noted to have low potassium and magnesium and was given supplementation. Recheck levels today. Told to take clear fluids and avoid fatty foods.
I dunno what FEN stands for. TIA!
help with acronym please...
Subject: help with acronym please...
If the persons diagnosis is
OSTEOARTHRITIS OF THE DISTAL RADIAL ULNAR JOINT OF THE LEFT WRIST.
And the doctor states for the x-rays taken today of the left wrist indicate a positive Terry Thomas sign indicating scapholunate gap. There is also degenerative joint disease noted of the DRUJ is this correct...(distal radioulnar joint) or distal radial ulnar joint?? I am lost at the moment finding it both ways. tia.
Just try to remember it is actually an acronym
Subject: Just try to remember it is actually an acronym
ACE - angiotensin converting enzyme.
It's an acronym. Go to OneLook.com
Subject: It's an acronym. Go to OneLook.com
Type in v* syndrome. It's #61.
if it were COAGs, it would need to be an acronym.
Subject: if it were COAGs, it would need to be an acronym.
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acronym for prosthetic eye
Subject: acronym for prosthetic eye
Is it P eye, PI or something else. Sounds like PI. Thanks.
Does anyone know what the acronym ORB means?
FABER: it's an acronym... nm
Subject: FABER: it's an acronym... nm
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Meant acronym...
Subject: Meant acronym...
ST segment - what does ST stand for? is it an acronym? ....
Subject: ST segment - what does ST stand for? is it an acronym? ....
This is in the area of cardiology test. TIA.
not an acronym.....cardiac exam...sm
Subject: not an acronym.....cardiac exam...sm
In an EKG you have QRS duration, ST-T changes.....these are not acronyms as I know it.
Ace (brand name as opposed to acronym)
Subject: Ace (brand name as opposed to acronym)
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is Ambu is not an acronym, then it should be Ambued
Subject: is Ambu is not an acronym, then it should be Ambued
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Sorry Charlie, all I could think of is maybe it is an acronym for something i.e. RPGO? unfortunately
Subject: Sorry Charlie, all I could think of is maybe it is an acronym for something i.e. RPGO? unfortunately I cannot find anything.
snafu - it is an acronym originally
Subject: snafu - it is an acronym originally
but pretty much used now as is - cannot tell you what it stands for because I would be censored - military in origin.
Never heard a doc say anything but the acronym form
Subject: Never heard a doc say anything but the acronym form
I've worked for a lot of orthopods as both an MT and an editor over the years and I don't think I've ever heard one of them define what CAM actually stood for.
It's not even very easy to find out what those letters mean via any source.
I've made a note of "controlled ankle motion" just for my own personal information, but if any of my docs dictate "CAM" then I would give them exactly that: CAM
Acronym, sounds like "PEEN"
Subject: Acronym, sounds like "PEEN"
Patient with nausea, vomiting, peripheral edema, essential thrombocytosis.
Had lower extremity coldness followed by 'PEEN" or "PEIN"
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abbrev/acronym questions
Subject: abbrev/acronym questions
I've been confused over this lately - if, for example,"4 mg of Zofran" given, would it be "4 milligrams of Zofran" ??
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SVN is an acronym for small-volume nebulizer. =) nm.
Subject: SVN is an acronym for small-volume nebulizer. =) nm.
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abbrev. acronym help - 2 questions - psychiatric
Subject: abbrev. acronym help - 2 questions - psychiatric
I cannot restart a Depakote due to increased LSTs. I will recheck ACPK in a.m. -- Is this LST or LSP or other? ACPK or ACBK or other? Thanks!!!
fabere? sign (acronym for the maneuvers
Subject: fabere? sign (acronym for the maneuvers
of Patrick test for hip-joint disease. (flexion, abduction, external rotation, extension). This was found in Vera Pyle's Current Medical Terminology Book,10th Edition.
Thanks to all - I always need to remember it could always be an acronym that sounds like a word, so
Subject: Thanks to all - I always need to remember it could always be an acronym that sounds like a word, so
I started typing letters w/o any vowels, and that's how it came up !
I was under the impression that VAC is an acronym for vacuum-assisted closure.
Subject: I was under the impression that VAC is an acronym for vacuum-assisted closure.
Both Stedmans acronyms and Tessier surgical have it as VAC.
Very funny CL!!
Subject: Very funny CL!!
You really let her have it!!
VERY FUNNY!!
Subject: VERY FUNNY!!
how do you get those animations??? did you also have the music one? Those are very cute!! Brightens up a Saturday spent working *hard*.
Thank you for the levity.
Very funny
Subject: Very funny
needed a good laugh today. Maybe that doc was doing just that, holding his nose, etc. Good one.
Thanks
OMG - how funny is THAT?!!!?!
Subject: OMG - how funny is THAT?!!!?!
HAHAHAHAHA!!! - we tend to delve into it way too much sometimes.......*lol*
That's so funny sm
Subject: That's so funny sm
I've heard a doc order his new loaded Lexus on his cell phone when he laid the phone down while dictating. Sounded like he was gettin' a pimpin' ride! I have also heard love making between a doctor and nurse (they were both married to other people). Ooohh, aahhhh. It was years ago, but was so funny. Sorry, just had to share ......
Funny you should say that (sm)
Subject: Funny you should say that (sm)
Because the next line is *Only other hospitalization is an appendectomy 13 years ago.* But what he is saying does not at all sound like appendectomy.
Thanks. That is it. She is just saying it a little funny there at the end
Subject: Thanks. That is it. She is just saying it a little funny there at the end
OMG! Too funny. Thanks for your help!
Subject: OMG! Too funny. Thanks for your help!
lol. dat was funny
Subject: lol. dat was funny
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ASR funny
Subject: ASR funny
cloudy sputum with occasional slight yelling...(hmmm....)
That's funny!
Subject: That's funny!
ASR Funny
Subject: ASR Funny
 "She just finished eating and she seems to be opaque." (OK).
Looks funny
Subject: Looks funny
That's what I've got right now but it looks ridiculous.
Too funny. I was going to say the same thing.
The one person that "corrected" everything is gone. I sent every single piece of garbage that she emailed me with to my supervisor. Who has time for nonsense? It was obvious this QA person felt she was "in control" or something because her feedback was ridiculous.
I haven't been fired either. Go figure.
I don't know what funny characters are, but
Subject: I don't know what funny characters are, but
MIU/mL is the correct way unless your account refers to AAMT list of banned abbreviations, then it should be typed out
thank you, he was pronouncing it funny!
Subject: thank you, he was pronouncing it funny!
Thanks so much!!!!
Big help, right! That's funny. I'm thinking...sm
Subject: Big help, right! That's funny. I'm thinking...sm
is he possibly saying "cystoscopy" instead of something endoscopy?
just trying to be funny here, but depends --sm
Subject: just trying to be funny here, but depends --sm
on WHICH "leg" he was referring to that was "nonpeeing." (sorry. couldn't resist) lol
Funny story
Subject: Funny story
Actually, that just reminded me of the surgeon who performed my cholecystectomy. The nurse accidently called him by his last name and he refused to acknowledger her until she apologized and called him Dr. X. Since I was the patient, and we were social friends, I completely gave him crap about it. He ended up apologizing to the nurse. lol
That is SO FUNNY! thanks for the laughs..
Subject: That is SO FUNNY! thanks for the laughs..
that would be funny if it was not so frustrating!
Subject: that would be funny if it was not so frustrating!
could he just be saying "here for very positive stool?" Makes no sense but sometimes with the language barrier, things come out, shall we say, awkwardly.
Sounds funny.
Subject: Sounds funny.
My first thought was her husband is an SOB and she needs Viagra. Sorry, long day.
thanks. It was pretty funny :) nm
Subject: thanks. It was pretty funny :) nm
LOLOL too funny!!! Thanks!!! nm
Subject: LOLOL too funny!!! Thanks!!! nm
well, I'm funny about trademarks...SM
Subject: well, I'm funny about trademarks...SM
If I see it's a trademark registered item, I transcribe it like the manufacturer's website (like one see's on the product itself) and in this case, for me, it would be CAM Walker
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