I have an ESL doctor who's dictating dialysis bath solutions. (I've never done these before). He says 2 K, which I found no problem, but when I sent it to QA for some other blanks, it was corrected to 2 potassium.
Account info says to use abbreviations when dictated, even in the diagnosis/impression/assessment portions.
Is K the preferred transcription, or should I expand it? Our QA is known to change correct transcription to incorrect. Don't ...
"The patient is undergoing peritoneal dialysis. At home, the patient undergoes cycler peritoneal dialysis. Here, he is receiving manual exchanges every 6 hours 1.5% __________, 2.5 L."
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The word I have in question is "long". Is this correct?
She was over 5 kilos above her dry weight, and not due for another dialysis session until tomorrow at which time I thought she very likely would be another 2 kilos long.
I cannot find anything anywhere that explains "long".
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Does anyone know what term this might be regarding dialysis? I just can't hear what letters he's saying, though I'm pretty sure the first one is "C." I have googled both CBA and CTA and have only gotten those Elsevier articles which I don't have access to. Any renal experts out there?? ...
I know that "dialysis-dependent" requires the hyphen if a noun follows the phrase as in, "The dialysis-dependent patient..." However, would the hyphen be appropriate in this phrase if a noun did NOT follow it as in "This is an 81-year-old woman with diabetes who is dialysis-dependent."? Would this be considered a noun + adjective, thus requiring the hyphen?
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