What does STS stand for?

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I am doing a care plan on my patient and it says her medical diagnosis is STS fever and STS seizure today // CVA seizures.

I tried googling and a lot of different things come up. Can someone help me out in understanding what the STS stands for? I would really appreciate it!

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Specializes in Family Nurse Practitioner.

States?

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Specializes in Complex pedi to LTC/SA & now a manager.

What are the patient's symptoms and your assessment data maybe we can go backward. But this is a prime example of why to NOT use non-standard abbreviation

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Specializes in Complex pedi to LTC/SA & now a manager.

Also what context? Was this a chart entry? On a demographic face sheet print out. (Sometimes there are facility specific internal codes used by case management and medical records that appear on demographic facesheet)

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Specializes in Complex pedi to LTC/SA & now a manager.

Not sure if the link will work but in this google books link it uses STS as referring to somatostatin in relation to epileptic seizures.

https://books.google.com/books?id=fPiWNqymTkYC&pg=PT1038&lpg=PT1038&dq=STS+seizure&source=bl&ots=_bvNAzk7XD&sig=RAz1rjpyTL0cFwec_oW6MHZd4yQ&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0CDcQ6AEwB2oVChMIwsHJ36DoxgIVgio-Ch3tkQF8#v=onepage&q=STS%20seizure&f=false

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Thank you so much for your responses. It was on the patient's Kardex. The patient presented with a history of nausea and diarrhea for the past 4 days and she thought she had a seizure that day. She has a history of seizures. I really can't find anything online that makes sense for this situation. I think I'm just going to explain the situation to my professor. Thank you very much though.

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Soft tissue swelling

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Soft tissue swelling

That makes no sense in the context "soft tissue swelling/fever" and "soft tissue swelling/seizure". Now soft tissue swelling with an abscess, infection, injury, arthritis...

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Specializes in Family Nurse Practitioner.

States fever and states seizure today.

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