What Exactly Does That Mean?
This is what I want when I ask for ALS.
What is Advanced Life Support?
All I know is it was a something "-ectomy".
What is removal of?
The crash caused "intraabdominal" bleeding.
What is Within or Inside?
This is a form of dementia that has nothing to do with age.
What is Alzheimer's Disease?
I had to call "the ambulance "for his fits!
What are his "seizures"?
ACLS is a class where I learn to save a life.
What is Advanced Cardiac Life Support?
I'm so "-itis" over this whole ordeal.
What is Swollen and Inflammed?
They called it "hypertension" which means my BP is out of whack.
What is Elevated or Excessive?
If I'm lying face down on the ground I am in a position that does not make me a gland.
What is Prostrate versus Prostate?
Medic 41 respond for a patient c/o having a fever and cough and concerned he has "ammonia".
What is "pneumonia"?
My patient suffered from a GSW to his thorax.
What is a Gun Shot Wound?
He has some sort of "dysphasia" since the CVA.
What is speech?
The medic reported the patient as having "hemiplegia".
What is Half or Half Of?
The "HPI" of my patient report became quite lengthy.
What is History of Present Illness.
Husband states his wife "fell out" during church.
What is "had a syncopal episode"?
The patient presented in NAD.
What is No Apparent Distress?
They said it was a severe reaction where he lost his antibody protection.
What is Anaphylaxis?
The medical examiner's report stated the aorta was "transected".
What is Through or Across?
My brother told me that "broken" is not the correct medical term for a bone with a break in the integrity.
What is Fracture?
I have bleeding coming from my piles!!
What are hemorrhoids?
The main symptoms she is c/o are N/V/D.
What are Nausea, Vomiting and Diarrhea?
They were able to achieve hemostasis, whatever that means.
What is Control or Stop?
The "cytology" report read that the leukocytes were quite elevated.
What is Related to Cells?
The physician corrected my when I said I defibrillated the patient out of ventricular tachycardia WITH a pulse. The proper term according to him is _____.
What is Cardioverted?
He has had the "smiling mighty jesus" in the past.
What is "meningitis"?