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Echo cardiogram or Echocardiogram - 27

Posted: Jan 01, 2011

T: Echo cardiogram preformed yesterday did reveal an ejection fracture of 29% it also showed a mildly dilated right ventricle and hypocontractile with a moderate sized paracardio effusion.

Oh dear! - Anon

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Its echocadiogram .... ejection FRACTION (not fracture) ... pericardial effusion.

thank you - 27

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believe it or not I'm still pretty new at this. Thank you for the help.

Hope you're a student. - nm

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Unless we are missing something from the sentence, "hypocontractile" cannot be correct, as it is an adjective.

Perhaps they are saying something like "..right ventricle that is hypocontractile"?

Also, just in case - it is performed (not preformed).

You need punctuation after 29% - either a period or a semicolon.

Please note: An echocardiogram is an important diagnostic tool, the findings of which MUST be reported accurately. If you do not yet have the skills to transcribe the report, you could be harming someone.

Echocardiogram - Hyper-typer

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Just curious . . . what company do you work for?

just curious... - sm

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may I ask why you want to know?

Because - Hyper-typer

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I am thinking of starting with a company soon, and I have not done this in a while, so I was just thinking that they are not helping you much is all.

I am not the OP - .

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I think maybe you wanted to address the OP. :)

Sorry! - Hyper-typer

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Oops! Sorry!

no prob! - happy new year

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echocardiogram - stephie

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I believe it would be hypocontractility used rather than hypocontractile. You will get it eventually. This job is not that hard (only when you first start an account) All of you negative transcriptionists, get a grip and give someone a break!

Thank you Stephie... - 27

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It's nice to know that one person seems to remember how hard it is at first.

27, you don't need a break, you need a medical dictionary. - anonMT

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Furthermore, these are terms you should've learned in Medical Terminology BEFORE you started transcribing. I'm all for helping newbies, but your question seems a bit lazy.

Google can be a great help, but it's not a resource. If you don't already have an idea what you're looking for, you could easily chose the wrong answer. You need trusted reference materials, like Stedman's or Dorland's. Here are a couple of websites to find some cheap used books:

http://www.half.ebay.com/

http://www.amazon.com/
search: medical reference
title: stedmans or dorlands

Other helpful websites:
http://www.mtsamples.com/
http://meditrans.stedmans.com/AtWork/section.cfm/27
http://www.mtdaily.com/mt1/samples.html
http://www.mtdesk.com/tiki-index.php?page_ref_id=90

While these websites are helpful, you have to be willing to do the research and verify your findings.

Oh geez!! - sm

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I'll admit, that did seem obvious to me as well, but I've been doing this for what seems like forever.

When in doubt whether a term should be spelled as one word, just look it up, that's all. The internet is an invaluable resource.

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