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Ophthalmic surgery: Has anyone heard of a Benson stimulator? - sjwb
Posted: Sep 02, 2010
Sentence is: A Benson stimulator was then used to initiate a curvilinear capsulorrhexis, which was completed in a 360-degree manner with Utrata forceps.
Has anywone heard of UNGV as in this sentence? UNGV was injected into the capsular bag to inflate it and also to fill up the anterior chamber. I can't find it anywhere. ...
A stab incision was made with an 11 blade knife "GMC"was inserted on the crest and penetrated through with a mallet. He says this a few times so fast and I cannot get what he is saying. This is what comes up in VR as I am typing.... Jamshidi???? Any ideas. Thanks in advance. I have searched and searched ad nauseum ...
A "humanitarian" stitch? It sounds pretty clear but I can't find this term anywhere with regard to suturing a wound. I did come up with links to a lot of charity web sites though! LOL
Thanks in advance! ...
Patient with a spinal cord stimulator in for wound check from battery replacement. She will follow up with another physician for s/l care and feeding of the stimulator. Thanks! ...
"sclerotomies were made at 2.5 mm posterior to the limbus at approximately 10 o’clock and approximately 2 o’clock" Is this the proper way to transcribe when the doc is referring to the place on the eye? ...
I cannot find anyting remotely related to this word on Google and I don't have a current surgical equipment book for ophthalmology.
This is on a corneal graft replacement.
It was decided to use an 8.25-mm [s/l hespar] bearing trephine to trephinate the host cornea and then oversize the donor cornea by 0.5 and use an 8.75-mm bearing trephine ...
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. :) ...
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!
ME
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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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