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." ...
Should the expression "nitro drip" be used? I have a note from quite awhile back saying that this should be changed to nitroglycerin infusion. The doc is dictating nitro drip. ...
Same patient as below who needed the sternal rubbing. He has massive GI bleeding and in the ER the doc says: "Protonix and s/l senospirin drip will be initiated." Any ideas what "s/l senospirin" could be? Could also be "fenospirin" or maybe "sporin" instead of "spirin"on the end. Lord lord lord. What *IS* this?? ...