Help with abbreviations

From a non OB nurse, but experienced mother/RN,,, i am summizing these are probly facility specific and not universally accepted abbreviations.

G/P= Gravida/Para,, meaning number of pregancies and live births.

F Hrt= fetal heart as in fetal heart tones?

Just my guess,, the rest are a mystery to me.

Try this site for your abbreviation to word needs. You will need to narrow down to the specific one.

Such as EDC,

1-Ethyl-3-[3-(Dimethylamino)Propyl]Carbodiimide (Hydrochloride)

Economic Development Committee (UK)

Effective Dynamic Compliance

Electrodesiccation and Curettage

Electronic Data Capture

Emergency Decontamination Center

Emergency Decontamination Centre

End-Diastolic Count Epidemiology Of Diabetes Complications Medical Articles

Epidermal Differentiation Complex

Estimated Date of Conception

Estimated Date of Confinement (when the baby is expected to be born)

Ethanol Derived Calories

Ethyl-3(3-dimethylaminopropyl)carbodiimide

Ethylene Dichloride

European Documentation Centre

Expected Date of Confinement

Expected Delivery, Cesarean

Extensor Digitorum Communis

It could either be Estimated date of conception or Estimated date of confinement.

http://www.pharma-lexicon.com/

bob

BTW, who ever thought up Estimated Date of confinement for delivery, it isn't like going to jail.....or is it? A possible 18 yr sentence!! :rotfl:

I'm pretty sure that GBS stands for Group B Streptococcus. It a very popular thing to test the mothers for prior to delivery (if I remember correctly). Good luck with the rest :)

Oh, and BOW stands for Bag of Waters...

You have to be careful with abbreviations now: especially those related to medications and when they are given. For instance, we are not supposed to use QD anymore for "daily". It has to be written out. Same for MgSO4: have to write our Mag Sulfate so as not to confuse someone and theink they mean morphine (which has similar letters. Those OB abbreviations are correct. However, I might add the fetal heart rate is usually abbreviated FHR. Why do you need to "look them up?" If you are a nursing student, your instructor should tell you what they mean.

You have to be careful with abbreviations now: especially those related to medications and when they are given. For instance, we are not supposed to use QD anymore for "daily". It has to be written out. Same for MgSO4: have to write our Mag Sulfate so as not to confuse someone and theink they mean morphine (which has similar letters. Those OB abbreviations are correct. However, I might add the fetal heart rate is usually abbreviated FHR. Why do you need to "look them up?" If you are a nursing student, your instructor should tell you what they mean.

unfortunetly, we dont have that kind of a instructor...we need to research on our own and know what we're doing on the spot :uhoh21:

In Labor and Delivery, there is a chart with the following abbreviations:

G/P

EDc

GBS

F Hrt

Bow

X: Time Eam

What are they shorthand for? I need to go look them up and what they signify, but don't know what the word is. Thanks!

Gravida/Para......How many times pregnant/delivered

Estimated Date of Confinement......Due date

Group B strep....We like neg, but still no guarantees (for the baby)

Fetal Heart Rate....Babies HR, good variability or not

Bag of Waters......Ruptured? Time?

Time of Exam

I'm the baby nurse, and these are mostly questions I like answered if I am called to a delivery