Sentences: "A CT scan of the chest was ordered by primary care provider for the complaint of pleurisy. A (s/l Beecher) scan was ordered thereafter."
I have a feeling I'm going to kick myself when I realize what this one was, but I am fried and just can't find it. Any thoughts? ...
Okay, I really have to ask this and get this out of my system. As an MT, if you work as an IC, and you commit to be available during a rough time period, do you feel that it is okay not to show up when you are supposed to? I find myself very aggravated this evening. I am a QA for a company who has been beaten about on this board several times, but at the same time, if you take a job and commit to something, shouldn't you show up when you say you will? Is it right for ...
I am so stuck. I have searched and searched, and I cannot find this word. This patient had blunt trauma to his chest. They did a portable chest x-ray and report "Cardiac silhouette appears quite normal. The _________ (s/l viasendly) does appear evident in the left anterior chest." ...
Its my day off and all I do is think about what awful thing they will do to me next. I literally have chest pain. I am scared all the time. I am scared when I am typing that I am making a mistake. I am scared when I am not typing that I won't make enough money to support my family. I am scared every time I spend a penny. There is no rest for the weary. ...
Five grams of sterile talc mixed with 150 cc of normal saline wsa instilled via the s/l lava of the chest tube.
This is an ESL doctor, any suggestions? ...
Dermatology doc says "Pt has a pink papule along the (s/l) nullcline on his right lower chest."
I found this word by googling nulkline, but don't know if it is used in anatomical id. ...
I am really really really (times pi) sickened but I figure if I write it here I can go to work and try to hang in there. I got the quarterly bonus and qualify for most times the weekly ones (depending on OOW situation and or if there are so many ESL a week I can't get the goal lines). Anyway, I have this high QA score on my weekly time sheet which is figured quarterly. Now, for the past 2 weeks, I am informed by TL that my quality is 98.6%, that I have in excess of 50, yes 50 critical error ...
Alone in-house today and need a little help.
"There is a vague nodular density overlying the anterior first rib approximately 15 mm which suspect is a bone island. The patient will be recalled for lordotic, reverse lordotic, and infused cone of the apices."
Not sure of the bolded part and even less sure about the word apices.
Thanks!
He repeated himself a little clearer later on in the dictation. He said: "The patient will be recalled for lordotic/reverse lordotic vie ...
This is a young male patient who came to the ER with tachycardia and chest pain that eventually resolved and who was taking amphetamines (although he lied and said he wasn't and then wouldn't admit it). So at the end, the doc says "Diagnosis: Chest pain s/l NOF or NOS." I don't know what this stands for. Any ideas? ...
The whole sentence is -
She presents with recurrent intermittent left chest discomfort described as sharp lancinating making it difficult for her to catch her breath with marked _____ with movement, changing in position.
Any help is very much appreicated.
Thanks. ...
For those MTs who are radiology MTs, when you transcribe portable chest x-rays, does your hospital or MTSO require you to include not only the date of the portable chest x-ray but also the time? ...
This patient has sinusitis as the main complaint.The patient is complaining of some ____ chest pain. Sounds like orthotic chest pain.Thanks for your help. ...
I've been an MT for 14 years and never once heard of clubbing and cyosis in the lungs. In the exam he says - The lung fields are well expanded and clear to percussion and auscultation. There is no clubbing or cyanosis.
Then he goes into the heart, abdomen, the extremities. Would it be correct to leave it under the lungs or do you think he's just all over the board. I cannot find anything that relates clubbing and cyanosis with the lungs, but wanted to ask firs ...
As part of the workup he underwent a CT of the chest for (LARIA) protocoll.
The dictator is English speaking and very clear. It is not malaria. Definately starts with an L. ...
What are some ways that a doctor can dictate a chest CT? I can't understand what she is saying. It sounds like amiable mirror column images were obtained. ...
Cannot make sense of what dr is dictating here...gave a few of the sentences before and after so you can get the context from this consultation report.
Recurrent severe chest pain attributed to mitral valve prolapse increasing in frequency and intensity. History of global poor left ventricular function. Cannot rule out cardiomyopathy so I will be careful as regards negative. No trophic agents such as Inderal. Suggest that Inderal and Isordil be discontinued.&n ...
Help! It sounds like chest is clear bilaterally......??? deformity. Heart: Regular rate and rhythm, etc.
Any input with a standard phrase for an emergency department consultation that says the above? Thanks so much for any help. ...