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Medical Abbrevation

Medical Abbrevation. Nantawarn Kitikannakorn, B.Pharm,Pharm.D. Abbreviation Advantages. Convenience Time saver Space saver a way of avoiding the possibility of misspelling words. Abbreviation Disadvantages. Hard to understand Misread interpreted incorrectly

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Medical Abbrevation

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  1. Medical Abbrevation Nantawarn Kitikannakorn, B.Pharm,Pharm.D

  2. AbbreviationAdvantages • Convenience • Time saver • Space saver • a way of avoiding the possibility of misspelling words

  3. AbbreviationDisadvantages • Hard to understand • Misread • interpreted incorrectly • Lengthen time needed to train individuals in the health field • Waste time to tracking down their meaning • Time’s delay patient care • Occasionally results in patient harm

  4. Dangerous abbrevation

  5. Easily misread Abbreviation

  6. Ambiguous meanings

  7. Controlled vocabulatory

  8. Controlled vocabulatory

  9. Prescription must be specified... • Dosage form • Strength • Direction • Indication

  10. Glasgow coma scale* MVE * References : Leaderman RJ.The internal Medicine& critical care pocket book. California: Tarascon publishing; 1997.

  11. Folstein Mini-Mental State* Score : 0-23 suggestscognitive dysfunction, 23-29 altered mental status

  12. Staging breast cancer * References : Leaderman RJ.The internal Medicine& critical care pocket book. California: Tarascon publishing; 1997.

  13. Staging ovarian cancer Retroperitoneal or inguinal node involvement Distant metastasis, pleural effusion must contain malignant cells 5 0%

  14. Staging prostate cancer

  15. Staging of lung cancer • TX malignant cell found but not visualized radiographically or bronchoscopically • T0 No evidence of primary tumor • Tis Carcinoma in situ • T1 Tumor < 3 cm surrounded by lung or viseral pleura, without invidence of invasion proximal to a lobar bronchus • T2 Tumor > 3 cm or either invades pleura or obstructive pneumonitis extending to the hilar region • T3 Tumor of any size with direct extension to the chest wall • T4 Worse than T3 or malignant pleural effusion • N0 No demonstrable metastases to regional nodes • N1 Mets to peribronchial including direct extension • N2 Mets to ipsilateral mediastinal and subcranial • N3 Mets to contralateral mediastinal, contralateral hilar, ipsilateral or contralateral scalenece or supracravicular • MO no known distant metastases • M1 Distant metastasis present

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