SCRIBEAMERICA ED CORRECT STUDY ANSWERS
AND QUESTIONS SET A+
✔✔"Weak/fragile bones" - ✔✔Osteoporosis (usually)
✔✔"Cancer" - ✔✔Cancer or carcinoma (CA) and specify which (brain, breast, lung,
colon, skin...)
✔✔"Spread to my..." - ✔✔With metastases to the...
✔✔"Chemo" - ✔✔Chemotherapy
✔✔"Radiation" - ✔✔Radiation therapy
✔✔"They cut it out" - ✔✔Status-post (s/p) surgical resection
✔✔"The cancer is gone" - ✔✔In remission
✔✔Tonsils removed - ✔✔Tonsillectomy
✔✔Adenoids removed - ✔✔Adenoidectomy
✔✔"Ear tubes" - ✔✔Pressure equalizer (PE) tubes
✔✔"Heart bypass" - ✔✔Coronary artery bypass graft (CABG) (also PMHx CAD)
✔✔"Stents" - ✔✔Coronary stents (also PMHx CAD)
✔✔"Heart cath" - ✔✔Cardiac catheterization
✔✔"Balloon" - ✔✔Angioplasty (also PMHx CAD)
✔✔"Pacer" - ✔✔Pacemaker
, ✔✔"Breast removal" - ✔✔Mastectomy
✔✔"Hole in my neck" - ✔✔Tracheostomy ("trach")
✔✔"Part of my lung removed" - ✔✔Partial lobectomy
✔✔Gallbladder removed - ✔✔Cholecystectomy
✔✔"Part of my colon removed" - ✔✔Partial colectomy
✔✔Spleen removed - ✔✔Splenectomy
✔✔"Stomach stapled" - ✔✔Gastric bypass
✔✔What's in the RUQ? - ✔✔Gallbladder
✔✔What's in the RLQ? - ✔✔Appendix
✔✔What's in the LUQ? - ✔✔Pancreas
✔✔What's in the LLQ? - ✔✔Large intestines
✔✔Kidney removed - ✔✔Nephrectomy
✔✔Uterus removed - ✔✔Hysterectomy (partial vs. total)
✔✔Ovary removed - ✔✔Oophorectomy
✔✔Ovary and fallopian tubes removed - ✔✔Salpingo-oophorectomy
✔✔"Tubes tied" - ✔✔Tubal ligation (female) or Vasectomy (male)
✔✔"C-section" - ✔✔Cesarean section
✔✔Prostate removed - ✔✔Prostatectomy
✔✔Uterine product removed (Abortion) - ✔✔Dilation and curettage (D&C)
✔✔"Neck artery cleaned" - ✔✔Carotid endarterectomy
✔✔"Brain surgery" - ✔✔Craniotomy (brain bleed vs. brain CA)
AND QUESTIONS SET A+
✔✔"Weak/fragile bones" - ✔✔Osteoporosis (usually)
✔✔"Cancer" - ✔✔Cancer or carcinoma (CA) and specify which (brain, breast, lung,
colon, skin...)
✔✔"Spread to my..." - ✔✔With metastases to the...
✔✔"Chemo" - ✔✔Chemotherapy
✔✔"Radiation" - ✔✔Radiation therapy
✔✔"They cut it out" - ✔✔Status-post (s/p) surgical resection
✔✔"The cancer is gone" - ✔✔In remission
✔✔Tonsils removed - ✔✔Tonsillectomy
✔✔Adenoids removed - ✔✔Adenoidectomy
✔✔"Ear tubes" - ✔✔Pressure equalizer (PE) tubes
✔✔"Heart bypass" - ✔✔Coronary artery bypass graft (CABG) (also PMHx CAD)
✔✔"Stents" - ✔✔Coronary stents (also PMHx CAD)
✔✔"Heart cath" - ✔✔Cardiac catheterization
✔✔"Balloon" - ✔✔Angioplasty (also PMHx CAD)
✔✔"Pacer" - ✔✔Pacemaker
, ✔✔"Breast removal" - ✔✔Mastectomy
✔✔"Hole in my neck" - ✔✔Tracheostomy ("trach")
✔✔"Part of my lung removed" - ✔✔Partial lobectomy
✔✔Gallbladder removed - ✔✔Cholecystectomy
✔✔"Part of my colon removed" - ✔✔Partial colectomy
✔✔Spleen removed - ✔✔Splenectomy
✔✔"Stomach stapled" - ✔✔Gastric bypass
✔✔What's in the RUQ? - ✔✔Gallbladder
✔✔What's in the RLQ? - ✔✔Appendix
✔✔What's in the LUQ? - ✔✔Pancreas
✔✔What's in the LLQ? - ✔✔Large intestines
✔✔Kidney removed - ✔✔Nephrectomy
✔✔Uterus removed - ✔✔Hysterectomy (partial vs. total)
✔✔Ovary removed - ✔✔Oophorectomy
✔✔Ovary and fallopian tubes removed - ✔✔Salpingo-oophorectomy
✔✔"Tubes tied" - ✔✔Tubal ligation (female) or Vasectomy (male)
✔✔"C-section" - ✔✔Cesarean section
✔✔Prostate removed - ✔✔Prostatectomy
✔✔Uterine product removed (Abortion) - ✔✔Dilation and curettage (D&C)
✔✔"Neck artery cleaned" - ✔✔Carotid endarterectomy
✔✔"Brain surgery" - ✔✔Craniotomy (brain bleed vs. brain CA)
