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• Sad persons

Mnemonic for suicide risk factors



• Sat, satting

In the proper context, "sat" or "sats" refers to saturation of oxygen. The term "satting at..." is certainly unacceptable. Substitute "having saturations at..."



• Saucerized

Corruption of the word saucerization, and an acceptable term.



• Scanning a patient

Used to describe ordering or performing an imaging study of the patient in the form of CT scan or ultrasound nuclear medicine scan



• Scoop and run

In the event that no treatment is possible at accident scene, patient is urgently transported to ER



• Sed rate

Sedimentation rate blood test



• Segs

Segmented cells; acceptable abbreviation



• Shoot and boot

Medicate and discharge



• Shooter

User of injected illicit drugs; perpetrator who actually commits the act of firing on a victim with a firearm



• Skeletonized

An acceptable back-formation used in surgery dictation which means that an anatomical part (usually an artery) was stripped of surrounding tissue.



• Skin popping

Used to describe self-injection of drugs subcutaneously, usually because the drug habit has sclerosed all peripheral IV sites of access



• Sludge

Mnemonic for cholinergic overdose



• Smurf sign

Slang for Chadwick sign and/or Jacquemier sign ("Smurf" because it refers to a blue discoloration of vaginal tissue in pregnancy). Okay to type as dictated.



• Stepdown unit

A monitored setting not as intense as any type of ICU



• Sundowner/sundown

Well-known tendency for senile or demented syndrome patients to have a nocturnal worsening of their mental status and confusion



• Swiss cheese

A colorful descriptive term sometimes used in radiology to describe severe osteoporosis. All we can do is type as dictated.