Medical abbreviations
Are you kidding me?
What is your Anatomical Position?
Your patient is dead
LABrador retriever
100

AED

Automated External Defibrillator

100

I work only with children

What is a Pediatrician?

100

I am lying face down

What is prone?

100

this is the normal range for SpO2

What is 95-99?

100

This is the information that you need to get from your patient

What is name and date of birth?

200

SpO2

what is Oxygen saturation?

200

A child needs 12 of these by the time they are 12 years old

What is are vaccinations?

200

I am lying on my back

What is supine?

200

This is the life-threatening cardiac arrhthmia

What is V Fib?

200

This person is likely to take your blood

What is a phlebotomist?

300

CABG

What is coronary artery bypass graft?

300

Children are prohibited from riding in automobiles unless they have one of these

What is a car seat?

300

I am not sitting

What is standing?

300
This is how long the body can go without oxygen

What is four minutes?

300

this group regulates the operation of laboratorie

What is CLIA?

400

NKDA

What is no known drug allergies?

400
This part of the medical chart is usually completed each time a child visits the doctor

What is a growth chart?

400

Where my head should be if I have a blood nose

What is tilted forward?


400

It is the medical term for flat line

What is asystole?

400

This is the measurement of the size of the needle

What is Gauge?

500

AMA

What is the Americal Medical Association?

500

This is the most common type of childhood death

What is drowning?

500

Where I should be if I am feeling dizzy during a blood draw

What is sitting or the other one?

500

If all the heat has left my body

What is hypothermia?

500
If you patient has lost consciousness during a procedure, it is called this

What is syncope?