The abbreviation is derived from the German Elektrokardiogramm. ECG is also used, but currently EKG is more common. On that note hospitals have moved away from using the out-of-date ER abbreviation since most emergency departments have many rooms and now use the term ED.
its mostly due to branding, the US used West German machines in the early days and the acronym was from Germany.. this was easy I just couldnt spell one of the words right.. so it took me a few to get the spelling right.. haha worst part is I knew I was spelling it wrong.. (wasn't the EKG one :)
Kalba, my husband, daughter and DIL are nurses, and none of them ever refer to the ER as the ED. There has been an attempt to make the change in some areas as well as change OR to "surgical suite", but old habits die hard, and as erikthev said, ED means something else medically. Either term can be used, but every hospital in my area has brightly lit signs pointing to the emergency room, not department. Not sure about other places.
Well, I worked in the ED at Fairfax Hospital for 2 years and everyone there used ED. So did my sister, father, mother, brother-in-law, and cousin who worked at the same hospital; flagship of the largest hospital network in the NoVA/DC area. It might be different in Missouri.
It's ER at all the rural hospitals in my area. They may use ED in the St. Louis or Kansas City hospitals - I just looked up the Barnes Jewish hospital in St. Louis, and I found it both ways. I'd honestly never heard of the ED until I took this quiz.
@ferdy86 What do you mean 'BS'? None of what kal said is BS; he only said he 'doesn't think' that schizoaffective disorder is abbreviated as SAD; he didn't say it wasn't. Also, schizoaffective disorder is most commonly abbreviated as SZA, while SAD is the abbreviation best known for seasonal affective disorder.
actually STD is also an obsolete term. STI is preferred (sexually transmitted infection). STI is more accurate than STD which is more accurate than VD, but all of the above are still commonly used by the public if not by hospital staff.
My DH is an ICU RN who has his BLS, ALS, and CCRN certs., my DIL is an OR RN with a BSN and ALS cert., and my DD is a BSN RN with her DNP who works for the VA. We're really into cap locks in our family.
I got them because things tend to stick after hearing it once. That is cool cause it helps with the stuff you want to learn. But also annoying cause lots of stuff you dont want to know also gets stuck in your head. And it gets quite full in there... (maybe that is part of the reason my short term memory is so bad, besides my disease, i think my shortterm has allways been worse. Low working memory/RAM because my "harddisk" is out of memory ;))
Technically, the CDC is the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Same acronym as when prevention wasn't part of the name. And it used to be the Center (singular) for Disease Control. And before that, the Communicable Disease Center.
Wow, you really stretched to try and bring Trump into this. It would have been funnier if TBD was actually a well known medical acronym. Most will think it means "to be determined" which makes the joke pretty lame.
I agree, that was out of nowhere. Bringing up trump for no reason in a situation that is unrelated is just uncalled for. You should just wait ten to fifteen minutes before trump says something else idiotic, and THEN you'd be on topic.
ADD ceased to exist way back in 1987 when they changed the name to ADHD. In 2013 they even eliminated the sub-types of ADHD, including the inattentive type that was still sometimes called ADD. So really only ADHD should be acceptable.
Please look up the difference between acronym and abbreviation. While all acronyms are abbreviations, NOT all abbreviations are acronyms. Many of these questions at abbreviations not acronyms.
I will never forget the MRI, as it saved my Mom's life (or at least extended it). I was reading about a new medical imaging method called an "MRI" in a medical journal while on the train going to visit my Mom in the hospital. When I got there, her doctor was in with her and was explaining that her xrays showed nothing unusual. I asked him if he had done an MRI and he didn't know what I was talking about. After some argument, he went and brought in another doctor who, when I explained what I'd read (and showed him the article), realized what I was talking about and arranged one for my Mom. I guess that her doctor didn't have the time to read the latest medical journals.
Okay. I was actually just watching a clip of some UK medical drama in which they called a closed OR an operating theater, so it appears that I was mistaken. Twice in the same comments section. I think in the US they still use the term operating theater exclusively to refer to ORs with an observation area.
My nitpicking comment of the day: kalbahamut, it seems unlikely that a UK drama would refer to an operating "theater", since in English, the word is "theatre".
It's in the US. But I've seen it referenced in international media plenty of times. Just like I've seen the WHO and NHS referenced many times outside of Switzerland and the UK.
EKG is more of a European term, in the US it's ECG, though I still do see it sometimes among the old textbooks. Venereal disease is a WAY outmoded term, that no one ever uses and borders on offensive. You still see it in medical history texts say about the tuskeegee experiments but otherwise everyone just uses STD. Instead I would suggest HSV for "Herpes Simplex Virus" that's related and much more topical, or maybe COVID?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acronym