Glossary of abriviations

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Glossary of abriviations

Postby space_cadet » Fri 12 Jun 2009 10:18 am

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

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SH
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Re: Glossary of abriviations

Postby rosemary johnson » Fri 12 Jun 2009 5:57 pm

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
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Re: Glossary of abriviations

Postby Lizb » Wed 17 Jun 2009 1:54 pm

CL - Contact lenses

LOL - laugh out loud
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Re: Glossary of abriviations

Postby Andrew MacLean » Wed 17 Jun 2009 6:14 pm

C3R
CXL both denote crosslinking

DALK Deep anterior lamellar keratoplasty (a partial thickness graft)
PK Penetrating keratoplasty (full thickness graft)
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Re: Glossary of abriviations

Postby Lizb » Sun 21 Jun 2009 8:44 pm

KC - keratoconus
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Re: Glossary of abriviations

Postby rosemary johnson » Sun 21 Jun 2009 9:45 pm

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)
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