Discharge summary, patient is post CABG. "Chest tubes were discontinued from the mediastinal area on post op day #1. He was weaned from mechanical ventilator and extubated. He was weaned off of dobutamine and nipride. He was transferred to 3B cardiovascular surgical floor. He was diuresed with Lasix. His **drip vac? strip vac?** was discontinued." ...
During a PLIF, after the spacers and screws, "At this point a ?chrono? strip was cut longitudinally in half. This ?chrono? strip was prepared with autograft and bone marrow aspirate from our pedicles." I was even thinking Kronner, but no luck. Any ideas? ...
Dictation sounds like several evers recalling strip and is part of the past medical history. Possibly something strep? Definitely sounds like strip though. Any suggestions greatly appreciated! Thanks! ...
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.
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The doctor dictates: *to surgery after appropriate preparation and today* prosthetic arthroplasty, Austin Moore-type left hip. What I flagged, I know cannot be completely right because it doesn't make sense. Any clues as what he may be saying?? Thanks!
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the area on the trigone was just slightly raised tumor whereas above the left ureteral orifice and slightly down in a **bafond** the tumor was papillary in nature. ...
This guy is talking a mile a minute and I can't slow it down at all.
This guy is talking a mild a minute with no speed control to speak of...
1. Perioperative _____ surgical pledgets were placed in the nose.
2. Bilateral _______ splints were placed in the nasal cavity and sutured to the midline with a 3-0 Prolene suture. (something+astic splints Almost sounds like full-astic or scho-lastic)
Thanks!
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Know villiform is a real word, just have not heard it in this context:
"There was a small false passage at the 6 o'clock position in the distal prostatic urethra; I suspect this is the area that presented difficulty with insertion of a Foley catheter and villiforms and dilators."
It almost sounds as if an "F" is the first letter.
Any thoughts/suggestions/help welcomed. Thanks. ...
Eye examination under anesthesia.
#. Placement of Baerveldt glaucoma tube shunt, inferotemporally, left eye.
#. Incision of fibrous capsule, left superior Ahmed valve with needle.
Dictator is doing eye examination under anesthesia, placement of Baerveldt glaucoma tube shunt, inferotemporally, left eye., incision of fibrous capsule, left superior Ahmed valve with needle.
Does anyone know of a 2-dough-plast tissue? I cannot hear "tonoplast." ...
I'm having trouble deciphering a few words in this sentence dealing with ankle surgery to remove intracuticular sutures. "Tourniquet was placed (about/above?) the left thigh and a (s/l bump) placed beneath the left hip. The lower extremity was then prepped and draped in sterile fashion." I can't tell if he's saying about or above, although I'm not sure if above would make any sense in that sentence, and I'm not sure if bump would make sense, either. ...
anyone heard of a product that s/l 'Bingo'?
Implantation of B___________ PEEK spacer with 26 mm height, packed with local autogenous bone graft inserted between C5 to C7.
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help, seems like i've had this word before, but cannot find it anywhere. thanks!
I was concerned for ball-valving of a common bile duct stone versus __________ versus other. Therefore, I performed the ERCP today.
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It's a cataract surgery.
Hemostasis of the *sounds like limbo area was obtained using wet-field cautery.
Dictation is very quiet so I can't tell for sure.
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anybody have any ideas?? s/l "Stell" dont think it is Steel. TKS:)
The 29 mm _______ stapler was then passed via the anus into the rectum. The circular stapler would not fit flush with the staple line.
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This is probably a ridiculously easy one, but I don't have any QA to tell me anything, so I don't know if I've been doing this right or not (though it feels like it's wrong).
The questionable term I come across for this one account is "including risks (s/l inherent) surgery." I feel like it's missing a word there, like risks inherent IN surgery or something similar, but doctor repeatedly only says "risks inherent surgery" in that order. Is she actually saying something ...