slang starting with 's'
SAD PERSONS
- Definition:
- A mnemonic for assessing a patient's risk of suicide.
S: Sex
A: Age
D: Depression
P: Previous suicide attempts
E: Ethanol abuse
R: Rational thinking loss
S: Social supports lacking
O: Organized plan to commit suicide
N: No spouse
S: Sickness - Usage:
- Ursula is a 24-year-old female, on Zoloft for depression, no history of suicide attempts, mild alcoholism, no illnesses, no support structure -- family and friends reside in Sudan.
sats
- Definition:
- Oxygen saturation. It is a measurement of the amount of oxygen the blood does carry relative to the amount of oxygen the blood could carry. Oxygen carried in the blood is attached to molecules of hemoglobin, so oxygen saturation is found by measuring the percentage of hemoglobin sites occupied by oxygen using a pulse ox.
- Usage:
- His sats are normal.
Scared Lovers Try Positions That They Can't Handle
- Definition:
- Mnemonic for the wrist bones.
Proximal row:
S - Scaphoid
L - Lunate
T - Triquetrium
P - Pisiform
Distal row:
T - Trapezium
T - Trapezoid
C - Capitate
H - Hamate - Usage:
- Girl 1: "I'm having a tough time remembering the carpal bones."
Girl 2: "Haven't you ever heard the mnemonic Scared Lovers Try Positions That They Can't Handle?"
SCREAM Fever
- Definition:
- Mnemonic for Kawasaki's
S: Sausage fingers
C: Conjunctival redness
R: Rash
E: Extremity involvement
A: Adenopathy
M: Mucosal erythema
Fever: Fever - Usage:
- Med student: Per SCREAM Fever, Geraldine has Kawasaki's, but the "sausageness" of her fingers is debatable. What should we be looking for, Jimmy Dean's breakfast links or Johnsonville brats?
second opinion
- Definition:
- It's a patient privilege of requesting an examination and evaluation of a health condition by a second physician to verify or challenge the diagnosis by a first physician. The situation is most likely to arise when an examination by a first physician results in a recommendation for surgery or experimental treatment.
- Usage:
- I'm going to get a second opinion.
sed rate
- Definition:
- Sedimentation rate. A test that measures the distance that red blood cells fall in a test tube in one hour. This distance determines the amount of inflation: the further the cells descend, the greater the inflammatory response of the immune system. Knowing a patient's sed rate is useful for diagnosing diseases such as multiple myeloma, temporal arteritis, polymyalgia rheumatica, various auto-immune diseases, rheumatoid arthritis, and chronic kidney diseases. A sed rate can also serve as a "sickness index" in an asymptomatic patient who is believed to have a disease.
- Usage:
- Dave's rheumatoid arthritis explains his high sed rate.
sedation holiday
- Definition:
- A brief period of time--usually five minutes or so--during which the sedation of a patient is turned off so that the staff can preform a neurological assessment. For example the nurse would make the patient wiggle his toes, see if he can follow a moving finger, etc.
- Usage:
- We need a sedation holiday to assess the patient in room 7 who's on the Propofol drip.
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