SCRIBEAMERICA ED EXAMS UPDATED TEST QUESTIONS
AND ANSWERS GRADED A+
✔✔PE - ✔✔Pulmonary Embolism -or- Physical Exam
✔✔PERRL - ✔✔Pupils are equal, round, and reactive to light
✔✔PO - ✔✔Per Os (by mouth)
✔✔prn - ✔✔As needed
✔✔pt - ✔✔Patient
✔✔PTA - ✔✔Prior to Arrival
✔✔qd - ✔✔Every Day
✔✔qh - ✔✔Every Hour
✔✔qhs - ✔✔At Every Bedtime
✔✔q2h - ✔✔Every 2 hours
✔✔QID - ✔✔Four Times a Day
✔✔RLE - ✔✔Right Lower Extremity
✔✔RLQ - ✔✔Right Lower Quadrant
✔✔ROM - ✔✔Range of Motion
✔✔ROS - ✔✔Review of System
✔✔RUE - ✔✔Right Upper Extremity
✔✔RUQ - ✔✔Right Upper Quadrant
✔✔Rx - ✔✔prescription
✔✔r/o - ✔✔Rule Out
✔✔SOB - ✔✔Shortness of Breath
, ✔✔s/p - ✔✔Status Post (after)
✔✔Sx - ✔✔Symptoms
✔✔TIA - ✔✔Transient Ischemic Attack
✔✔TID - ✔✔Three Times a Day
✔✔TM - ✔✔Tympanic Membrane
✔✔Tx - ✔✔Treatment
✔✔UA - ✔✔Urinalysis
✔✔URI - ✔✔Upper Respiratory Infection
✔✔US - ✔✔Ultrasound
✔✔UTD - ✔✔Up to Date
✔✔UTI - ✔✔Urinary Tract Infection
✔✔WNL - ✔✔Within Normal Limits
✔✔Abrasion - ✔✔Scrape of the skin due to something abrasive
✔✔Acute - ✔✔New, usually of rapid onset and of concern, opposite of chronic
✔✔Ambulate - ✔✔To walk from place to place
✔✔Anterior - ✔✔Located towards the front of the body
✔✔Artery - ✔✔Blood vessel carrying blood away from the heart
✔✔Benign - ✔✔Normal, of no danger to health
✔✔Bradycardia - ✔✔Slow heart-rate (HR less than 60bpm)
✔✔Cardiomegaly - ✔✔Enlarged heart
✔✔Cholecystitis - ✔✔Inflammation of the cholecyst (gallbladder)
✔✔Chronic - ✔✔Long-standing, constant. Opposite of acute.
AND ANSWERS GRADED A+
✔✔PE - ✔✔Pulmonary Embolism -or- Physical Exam
✔✔PERRL - ✔✔Pupils are equal, round, and reactive to light
✔✔PO - ✔✔Per Os (by mouth)
✔✔prn - ✔✔As needed
✔✔pt - ✔✔Patient
✔✔PTA - ✔✔Prior to Arrival
✔✔qd - ✔✔Every Day
✔✔qh - ✔✔Every Hour
✔✔qhs - ✔✔At Every Bedtime
✔✔q2h - ✔✔Every 2 hours
✔✔QID - ✔✔Four Times a Day
✔✔RLE - ✔✔Right Lower Extremity
✔✔RLQ - ✔✔Right Lower Quadrant
✔✔ROM - ✔✔Range of Motion
✔✔ROS - ✔✔Review of System
✔✔RUE - ✔✔Right Upper Extremity
✔✔RUQ - ✔✔Right Upper Quadrant
✔✔Rx - ✔✔prescription
✔✔r/o - ✔✔Rule Out
✔✔SOB - ✔✔Shortness of Breath
, ✔✔s/p - ✔✔Status Post (after)
✔✔Sx - ✔✔Symptoms
✔✔TIA - ✔✔Transient Ischemic Attack
✔✔TID - ✔✔Three Times a Day
✔✔TM - ✔✔Tympanic Membrane
✔✔Tx - ✔✔Treatment
✔✔UA - ✔✔Urinalysis
✔✔URI - ✔✔Upper Respiratory Infection
✔✔US - ✔✔Ultrasound
✔✔UTD - ✔✔Up to Date
✔✔UTI - ✔✔Urinary Tract Infection
✔✔WNL - ✔✔Within Normal Limits
✔✔Abrasion - ✔✔Scrape of the skin due to something abrasive
✔✔Acute - ✔✔New, usually of rapid onset and of concern, opposite of chronic
✔✔Ambulate - ✔✔To walk from place to place
✔✔Anterior - ✔✔Located towards the front of the body
✔✔Artery - ✔✔Blood vessel carrying blood away from the heart
✔✔Benign - ✔✔Normal, of no danger to health
✔✔Bradycardia - ✔✔Slow heart-rate (HR less than 60bpm)
✔✔Cardiomegaly - ✔✔Enlarged heart
✔✔Cholecystitis - ✔✔Inflammation of the cholecyst (gallbladder)
✔✔Chronic - ✔✔Long-standing, constant. Opposite of acute.
