Abreviation Help

1. I am a student, on an elderly placement, and I am stuck on a few abreviations, my mentor gave me to learn, Can anyone help me please? This isn't taking the easy way out, these are all I have list of 50, I have tried searching the web, and hitting the books, but I have had no luck with these:
   
   CxR
   EMD
   ADR
   PALS
   TCI
   CABG
   TIA
   BD
   
   
   Thanks in advance. Whisper
   P.S. I also posted this on the Student Nurses board. Hope that is allowed.

   Last edit by Whisper on Dec 9, '01

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   About Whisper, BSN

   Joined: Nov '01; Posts: 1,177; Likes: 24
   Staff nurse; from UK
   Specialty: Cardiolgy

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3. 
   Dec 9, '01

   I think I may know a few of them, CXR where I am is Chest x-ray, PALS is pediatric advanced life support, CABG is coronary artery bypass graft, and TIA is transient ischemic attack. I've never seen the others, but maybe other nurses in other areas will know them. Hope this is a help.
4. 
   Dec 9, '01

   Hope I can help, don't recognise all.
   
   cxr chest x-ray
   adr adverse drug reaction
   tci to come in.....usually an expected admission.
   cabg coronary artery bypass graft
   tia transient ischaemic attack
   bd twice daily (it's greek to me!)
5. 
   Dec 10, '01

   Thanks very much, It was a great help. Also I never knew that The British and American Nurses used different abbreviations, or different meanings for the same abbreiations.
   
   Sorry if this doesn't make much sense, but I just witnessed my first crash, and I am not really up to typing messages at the minute, I just wanted to say thanks.
6. 
   Dec 11, '01

   BD=bad day! LOL, I have lots of BDs, but mostly I have GDs
   
   Haven't a clue to what it really means... I'm curious myself...anyone?
7. 
   Dec 14, '01

   EMD is emergency medical department
   and I think everyone answered the others.
8. 
   Dec 15, '01

   Thanks very much every one, I have now sat and gone through the list with my mentor, so I can tell you all what I should have put.
   
   CXR Chest Xray
   EMD Electro Meachanical Dissasociation
   ADR Adverse Drug Reaction
   PALS Patient Advice and Liason Sercvice
   TCI To Come In
   CABG Coranary Artery Bypass Graft
   TIA Trans Ischaemic Attack
   BD Twice Daily
   
   Thanks for the help, I really apreciate it, as I am having great fun trying to get my head around all these abreviations. Especially as I wasn't told the context of the list, and they can mean more than one thing
   
9. 
   Dec 15, '01

   Hmmm, I learned a few I didn't know today. It's dangerous having abbrev. that can be more than one thing, such as the EMD -- alot of things we're better off writing them out than using the abbreviation!
10. 
    Apr 25, '02

    Hi all,
    
    Good point MT. In the UK we're not supposed to use abbreviations.
    
    TTFN,
    
    Mike <hehe>
11. 
    Apr 28, '02

    After all, I am just a student, and we are being taught abreviations, which has come in quite handy because without a basic grasp I would have been well and trully lost in handovers

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