Procedures are septoplasty and bilateral inferior turbinate submucous resection. This doctor says this over and over. I've had QA insert "Sklar" elevator - but I cannot hear this. I hear cigar clearly but cannot document it anywhere. I can document Sklar - evidently they make the Freer and Cottle elevator (that are also mentioned in this report).
Dictator speaks clearly, not ESL. Word is spoken in 2 syllables.
This exact question (ENT surger ...
"I have discussed with the family and I have anticipated approximately a 4 to 5 cm difference of the possibility that pan-genu epiphysiodesis at the appropriate time for ultimate equalization." ...
A wire would not pass across the mediastinum. I changed to a straight wire from the J-wire and was able to pass into the atrium. I "daughter" dilated this area. ...
Open reduction with plate fixation of extraarticular fracture of the right distal radius-
Sentence: It was elevated off the distal radius using a s/l KELL elevator.
Anybody familiar with this? ...
Stumped here. :(
Surgeon says:
Two screws fractured at the level of the bone. They were ____________ and removed in the usual fashion.
The blank sounds like "truffened", "troughened", "truffined"? Some sort of removal. I have absolutely no idea.
Thanks in advance. :) ...
He was placed on levodopa therapy. With this, both him and his wife noticed his gait improved as well as the tremor. He has actually run out of this over the last 4 or 5 days and it may be a little bit of worsening.
That is typed as dictated, I am stumped as to cleaning it up. Also.. 'both him and his wife' does not sound right to me? or is it right. ...
There is no weakness, overt numbness, loss of balance, loss of bowel or bladder, speech difficulties, visual difficulties, or lateralizing weakness. ...
Here's what I hear...Evaluation for elective thymectomy in displacement with myasthenia gravis. Not sure if it sounds like "in" or "and". Which is correct? Thanks for any help! ...
He had multiple facial fractures including bilateral number three fracture, ligament injury in C7-T1, left hand fracture, T9 compression fractures, multiple rib fractures, right clavicular fracture, and left second metacarpal fracture.
Does this make any sense? I have no idea what a number three fracture is, but he says it pretty clearly. ...
I'm transcribing a dictation by an Asian doctor and I'm unsure what to do with this sentence. I'm pretty sure it is exactly what he is saying. "...drainage from her right ear 2-3 days ago. This happened after her swimming 2-3 days or had all this drainage." The part I'm unsure about is after the first period. Thanks in advance for any ideas!! ...
ok, so I had a 20-minute dictation by a DOCTOR, albeit a resident, but still...he actually said "next sentence" at the end of EVERY SENTENCE. I just want to type verbatim for ONE DAY... ...
Peripheral neuropathy. I am going to go ahead and obtain a glucose tolerance test.
Ulnar neuropathy. He is tentatively scheduled, according to his report, to have decompression done by Dr. Labosky.
I am going go ahead and obtain a glucose tolerance test. ...
Abdominal CT showed atherosclerotic changes in the aorta, multilobulated mass in the iliopsoas muscle hematoma, and extensive sigmoid diverticulosis but no diverticulitis.
TIA!!! ...
When first seen, she had a very clear right-sided rest tremor, decreased right arm swing, and a right with gait, fairly significant posture instability, and mild increased tone on the right side with an otherwise normal exam. ...
Hello to all MT posters-
- Am wondering about tips about sentence breaks and comma use. Any advice/guidelines when the doctor is running fast and sentence breaks and paragraphing don't seem obvious?
-Thanks to the MT's that give advise in a professional manner. So many of the newbie posts hit right at home.
-Still waiting for my AIM internship to start. Has anyone interned with AIM?
Diane
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