PROCEDURE PERFORMED: Brachytherapy implant.
Now, where does "PROCEDURE ABORTED" go, so patient isnt charged for it, etc, and no errors are made? And, should it be all caps? In name of procedure or as a separate "Please Note:" Its dictated as name of procedure but Dr. is indecisive and stutters dictation ambiguously. ...
Sounds like penile glare. Twice it is used.
_____ was bluntly and sharply dissected off the muscle both anteriorly and posteriorly.
_____ was dissected down to bare sclerae. ...
I have a patient who had a px of her ankle. The doctor did not give any hx of injury or any symptoms, just stated that she had a left ankle arthroscopy and what sounds like a Brostin procedure of her ankle? Anyone ever hear of this?
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Forgive my giddiness today but I havent' had a lot of sleep in the past several days and I do get giddy with little sleep. For some reason, one of my mom's most famous sayings just came to mind: "From the day of your ...
Examination of x-rays done previously - AP of the pelvis and AP and lateral of the right hip does reveal S-ROM type prosthesis which on the femoral side seems to be well fixed. He does have a _________ type cup which seems to be loose with clear lucent line in all three zones.
sounds like wide to lock type or Y to lock type or white to lock type ...
This is a patient who has a poor fitting prosthesis and developed an ulceration on his leg. It sounds like the doctor states prothesis case will probably be windowed? Does this make sense to anyone? ...
The patient has a left hip replacement. He has a long-stem ( s/l Pel-car) stem with a lateral plate and multiple wires.
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Patient had a total knee arthroplasty. She has valgus alignment and limb length discrepancy. Doctor is recommending revision. He dictates:
Our recommendation would be to likely pursue surgical management of the left total knee arthroplasty and revise this from a total knee arthroplasty into a ---------- prosthesis. She is amenable to this plan especially since she has a valgus malalignment along with a limb length discrepancy of approximately 3 cm.
I hear "bad-ock" or ...
Anyone heard of an Eve forceps? Can't seem to find it anywhere. I find EVE endoscope, but nothing for Eve forceps. Any help is greatly appreciated...Thanks ...
Concerning below about how to report NJA, I was always told and still do it this way: No work for 15 minutes, off clock, then I fill out a Remedy slip. My CCM has not told us to do anything different. Two weeks ago we had no work on a Saturday and I did it this way. ...
I'm so confused. When OOW the most recent e-mail I had gotten said to clock out of production hours and back in under OOW for no more than 15 minutes as to not affect your line counts.... I am not seeing anywhere how to clock back in under OOW. I only see under tasks you can choose production, calls, etc. Can someone please explain how to do this so you aren't under production hours?? How do you all do it?? I have been OOW a few times and at 15 minutes each that would be 45 minutes and ...
The patient is status post Bias or BIAS procedure for cholecystitis. The doctor spells it with at least a capital B. I can't find any reference to it. Thanks. ...
They repeated the angiogram. They noticed an evolving pseudoaneurysm. For this reason, Dr. *** was brought into the case, and he performed a coiling of the pseudoaneurysm. During this process, the patient received five units of intra-arterial tissue plasminogen activator times two, and post coiling angiogram of the s/l intracranial cecalation apparently looked very good. ...
Question is s/l Lugall. He used it twice and not quite sure what he is saying, but s/l Lou-gulll
GROSS PATHOLOGY: s/l Lugall finds take up at the 12 o’clock position. Biopsy slightly toward the 1 o’clock position.
PROCEDURE: With the patient’s permission and proper time out the bivalve speculum was put in place and Lugall used and then cetacaine ... ...