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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.
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