Medical Transcription Terms
Surgery
| Common Abbreviations: |
| Common Terms: air knot |
| Medications: bupivacaine, lidocaine, Wydase |
| Medications for hemostasis: The use of topical liquid agents such as Monsels or Drysol, which stop the bleeding, may be used as a method of hemostasis. |
| Procedures/Reports: Double Lumen Port-a-Catheter, Left Partial Nephrectomy |
| Anesthesia: endotrach, LMA (S/L ellamae) peribulbar block |
| Anesthesia Agents |
| Catheter: double lumen port-a-catheter |
| Bear Hugger: Patients are rewarmed using the Bear Hugger. This blows warm air over the body surface to warm by convection. |
| General Anesthesia Information |
| herniorrhaphy: |
| Hespan: IV fluid usually given along with crystalloid. |
| Ioban, Ioban 2: antimicrobial incise drapes help reduce the risk of site contamination due to skin flora by providing continuous antimicrobial activity during the entire surgery and by adhering securely to wound edges. |
| MIVA: monitored intravenous anesthesia. |
| Sheath: parotid |
| Sutures: Biosyn |