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• Bag/banana bag

Liter of IV fluids given to alcoholic intoxications named because of its yellow color, and contains multivitamins, folate, thiamine, and sugar. Its goal is to provide hydration as well as depleted nutrients, the absence of which can cause complications in alcoholics.



• Bagging

Ventilation patient



• Banana bag

Acceptable term; an IV potassium drip



• Banger/gang banger

ER patient, often referred to as being in the ER due to traumatic injury, involved in gang activities, specifically violent acts



• BIBA

Brought in by ambulance



• Bili

Bilirubin; spell it out



• Bili lights

An acceptable and long-used term, dictated usually by neonatologists in reference to lights used in treatment of neonatal jaundice (hyperbilirubinemia)



• Binky test

Ability of an infant to evidence basic stability and an interest in "the important things in life" by placidly sucking on a pacifier



• Bleed

Routine lingo for a hemorrhage (can be used in many phrases, such as arterial bleed, GI bleed, head bleed, venous bleed)



• Blue bloater/pink puffer

Stereotypical description of bodily appearance of COPD patients with chronic bronchitis and emphysema



• Body packer

Drug courier who swallows bags/condoms of drugs



• Bounce back

Patient who returns to ER with same complaint shortly after being released



• Bovied

you can substitute "Bovie coagulated"; however "bovied" has become an acceptable corruption of the proper noun. Do not capitalize a term whose part of speech has been changed, even if it has been derived from a proper noun. Such terms are referred to as "back-formations" A back-formation is a coined verb which was formed from an already existing noun, and the result is technically not a dictionary term. Medical dictators love to make verbs out of nouns which are about as acceptable as the bastardization of the noun modem into "modemed" a term many of us use in our everyday conversation. Follow the guidelines of your employer with regard to usage of these back-formations. As long as the meaning is clear, it may be an exercise in futility to attempt to convert such commonly dictated terms into the deathless prose we would like our transcription to be. Aside from that, many dictators do not take kindly to our changing their dictation style. As author/teacher, Vera Pyle was fond of saying, "Doctors dictate, transcriptionists transcribe."



• Bruisability

Not a word in the true sense, but used a great deal by dictators to indicate that the patient bruises easily. Okay to type as dictated.



• Bus

Sometimes used to describe a transporting ambulance