Hello,
I would like to transcribe from home again. However, I HAVE to get up and walk for a few minutes at least once an hour. You see, I had to have 2 back surgeries in the last 18 months. I've been a transcriptionist for many years and this is my profession. Does anyone have a suggestion what to tell these companies that will hire you to work from home when you have to get up so much? The last company I tried had a "pop-up" box that appeared on my screen if you were up longer than 10 min ...
Stupid question, but how would you write this?
We placed "6-5-45" screws in the sacrum and placed "7-5-50" screws in L5.
6.5 forty-five and 7.5 fifty? ...
This is what i dictated, I bolded things I am questioning/don't know: She was advised that she would benefit from L2-L3, L3-L4, L4-L5 central and bilateral recess decompression L2 to second posterolateral fusion with K 2 mesa and ten ah lee instrumentation system local autograph. Vitoss and infused bone grafting surgery.
I am not sure about K2 mesa and ten ...
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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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.
Thanks in advance! ...