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Glossary of abriviations
Posted: Fri 12 Jun 2009 10:18 am
by space_cadet
I was asked via Private Message (PM) to explain a few abriviations. Please add to this if you have any I have missed.
DX - Diagnoses
RX - Pescription
SHO - Senior House Doctor
GP - General Practitioner
PDOC - Psychiatrist
PCT - Primary Care Trust
HA - Health Authority
LSA - Learning Support Assistant
SP* - Unsure of Spelling
LGBTQ - Lesbian, Gay, Bi, Trans, Queer (altho the Q can sometimes stand for questioning)
SI - Self Injury
SH - Self Harm
SU - Suicide
TRIGGER - May have content that is upsetting
ED - Eating Disorder(s)
Re: Glossary of abriviations
Posted: Fri 12 Jun 2009 5:57 pm
by rosemary johnson
Px or Pt : patient (funny how docotrs never use one's name, innit?)
Sx : symptoms
C+B : Choose and Book (system for being referred to hospital specialist(s) via computer.
RGP : rigid gas permeable (polymer); one of a group of plastics from which hard contact lenses are made these days
PMMA : abbreviation for a long chemical name of a type of plastic, more often known by the brand name Perspex, from which hard contact lenses used to be made.
QDS/TDS/BD : 4/3/2 times a day (on prescriptions, how often to take a medicine
nocte : in the evening (ditto)
RE/LE/BE : right/left/both eyes (ditto, for where to put eye drops)
po/iv/im : by mouth/intravenously/intramuscularly (other places medicines may be administered
HTH : hope this helps
Rosemary
Re: Glossary of abriviations
Posted: Wed 17 Jun 2009 1:54 pm
by Lizb
CL - Contact lenses
LOL - laugh out loud
Re: Glossary of abriviations
Posted: Wed 17 Jun 2009 6:14 pm
by Andrew MacLean
C3R
CXL both denote crosslinking
DALK Deep anterior lamellar keratoplasty (a partial thickness graft)
PK Penetrating keratoplasty (full thickness graft)
Re: Glossary of abriviations
Posted: Sun 21 Jun 2009 8:44 pm
by Lizb
KC - keratoconus
Re: Glossary of abriviations
Posted: Sun 21 Jun 2009 9:45 pm
by rosemary johnson
IOP = Intra-ocular pressure (the eyeball equivalent of blood pressure) Normal values are up to about 21; up to 25 can be OK for people with strong healthy eyeballs. It can be put up by steroid eye drops, genetic disposition (runs in the family), age, etc and if too high for too long can result in damage tot he retina.
mmHg = millimetres of mercury - the units the IOP is measured in. (Think of an old-fashioned barometer with the column of mercury going up and down with the weather)
Rosemary