Reading a patients diagnosis

[smurfet]

How would you read Lt ORIF Lt Femur on a patients admission chart to an extended care facility

Thanks for the help

[Jolie, BSN]

Open reduction, internal fixation of the L femur.

(Surgical repair of a fracture with internal hardware.)

[catlynLPN]

How would you read Lt ORIF Lt Femur on a patients admission chart to an extended care facility

Thanks for the help

It looks to me to be "Open Reduction Internal fracture of left femur".

What is the first "Lt" for just before ORIF? Does the diagnosis have LT before and after?

[AirforceRN, RN]

:yeahthat: I think the to "Lt"s are a little redundant but there you go.

[leslie :-D]

orif= open reduction internal fixation

lt = left

leslie

eta:

here you go.

http://www.orthopedics.about.com/cs/brokenbones/g/orif.htm