I'm typing an operative report...the doctor recorder is playing VERY fast and I'm trying to decipher what she's saying.
'Two mediastinal drain tubes were brought in from the subxiphoid region, the tip of the left side directly under the thoracic cavity' ...
OR report for lumbar laminectomy. A S/L DP Mac Drain was placed overlying the laminectomy site at L5-S1 and a superficial Hemovac was placed in the subcutaneous tissues as well.
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I work at home for the local hospital/clinic and have for the last 12 years doing transcription. Now all of a sudden we switched to a new system and a lot of the doctors are doing voice recognition and we are doing more editing of reports than typing. Also, I used to work a solid 8 hours a day from 7 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. Now I have to get up at 4 a.m. to grab work till about 8 a.m., and then there is no work till around noon. Even after that it is sporadic, hit and miss.&nbs ...
Is anyone else fighting back against all the time we are expected to give away? Every time they ask us to sit waiting for work to come in for 15 minutes, they are only paying minimum wage for your state. If you are making more than this with your calculated base, they are cheating you! I lose approximately $7 dollars an hour when asked to wait. I for one have had enough! Pray for me, as I may push this to the limit of losing my job, but when you think about it, that ...
I have a foreign doctor who descibes two chest tubes put in, one with the tip showing under the left, the right thoracic cavity (s/l) sustaining its own. Anyone have an idea? ...
She does demonstrate some previous bleeding from the posterior chest wall drain site that has a stitch in place currently. She has a thrombotopical pad applied to her anterior chest wall drain site. ...
Scalp and forehead lacerations being repaired.
The head is placed in a "brain drain" in order to wash the hair and judiciously shave the areas around the lacerations, preserving all of the other hair.
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It sounds like he is saying channel drain during a GI surgery. Has anyone ever heard ofa channel drain or do you know of a good website that lists various surgical drains and their names? I'd be very grateful for any info.
Thanks so much! ...