I am wondering would it make sense to say "She had some tenderness with palpation "near the border" of the patella. Or would it be better to type "She had some tenderness with palpation of the knee "above" the patella." I am not sure what I am hearing.
Thanks.
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I made a longitudinal oriented incision and expressed some purulence out with pressure, cephalad and caudad, knee-v-eel, and lateral.
The patient has a infected brown recluse bite on his anterior proximal lateral knee. Any ideas?
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Surgeon is using a Homan/Hohmann retractor. I found both terms in the Tessier Surgical Word Book and also both terms used regarding this arthroscopic knee replacement surgery via Google. What I need is an MT who has some experience with this and can advise me as to which is correct. This is my first operative report for ortho. I need an Obi-Wan to my Luke! ...
The * (could be one or two words, I can't even describe what it sounds like!) about the upper and lower extremities were all padded.
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S/L plain poralances? ...
The patient has sustained an acute, complete proximal anterior cruciate ligament tear with characteristic bone bruising involving the posterior medial and lateral tibial plateaus and anterolateral femoral condyle. There is epithin impaction over the lateral femoral condyle, where there is mild depression of the subchondral plate and mild non-full-thickness chondral shearing. (sounds like epifen or episen)
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The patient had a s/l knee surgery with a s/l Cardizel Olds?? enzyme procedure.
He performed this ten years ago and I cannot really hear clearly what he is saying. Any ideas? Thanks. ...
TEXT: Examination of his left knee shows no knee joint effusion. Good patellar tracking. No localized tenderness to palpation. No ligamentous instability. Full extension and 30 degrees of flexion. Firm end point with Lachman test. He does have an approximately 4 x 3 cm mass at the medial aspect of the popliteal fossa. There is no tenderness to palpation. No redness or warmth. __________ is positive consistent with fluid content. There i ...
Physician says what sounds like Surfak for this instrument, Using a medial portal, the _____ instrument was introduced into the medial compartment for synovectomy for chondroplasty of the medial compartment, ...
... trabecular mesh cage. The appropriate sized cage was then selected, stuffed in the middle with some _____ that had been impregnated with the patient's blood.
Same word again a little later: Some additional _____ was placed along the sides of the implant. Care was taken to avoid any of the material going in towards the spinal canal.
He said it quite clearly both times; sounded like co-pee-ose. Accent was on the first syllable. ...
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Fellow MT�s - Would appreciate any and all feedback. I am in need of gathering information on the trends of the medical transcription profession. If you have worked as a hospital-employed MT as well as for an MTSO (medical transcription service organization, or MT outsourcing company), these are examples of the type of input I am requesting:
1) How would you characterize differences in pay rates, benefits, and potential gross income between hospital vs. MTSO employment?
2) Ha ...
Doc is doing a knee exam for large meniscal tear and bone-on-bone medial compartment OA. He says what sounds like "Simons first test" caused grade 4 posterolateral tenderness.
Any ideas?
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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. :) ...