Re: abbreviation: FREOM?

[Guest guest]

Hello Margaret,

In reference to your comment:

è Also, it is PERRL not PEARL, probably just a typo. 

è Margaret

Nope, not a typo. She said PEARL plain as day and it's in Neil

Abbreviations... I had to look because I had never heard it. I wondered if

FREOM was full range extraocular movements. Oh well, that's what she got...

since it's verbatim. Thanks

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[Guest guest]

Hello Margaret,

In reference to your comment:

è I checked my abbreviations book and it does show

è PEARLA, but not PEARL.  Have you ever had a

è chance to check with the doc to make sure which one

è she means. 

Margaret, when she said it, I thought it was supposed to be PEARLA too, but

Neil Abbreviations lists PEARL as pupils equal and reactive to light,

so she got PEARL since she said it plain as day. She's a physician's

assistant, not an MD, which is why I had looked it up since I had never heard

it that way. As you probably recall, I work for Edix, and the rule is..

" when in doubt, go with verbatim. " -- unless it's a glaring error. Since I

was able to document it, that's what she got. For the FREOM, she got that

verbatim too, but I put (??) behind it since I wasn't able to document it.

Jan " Typing is my life " (said sarcastically)

Remember... WSTPMTR (which means,

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[Guest guest]

BTW, I neglected to mention that when she said it, she spelled

P..E..A..R..L... per pearl or perla as they sometimes say.... which is why I

went vebatim, especially after I looked it up in and found it. Sorry

if I wasn't clear on that earlier.

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Remember... WSTPMTR (which means,

whoever signs the paycheck makes the rules).

[Guest guest]

Hello JanTranscribes@...,

In reference to your comment:

è P..E..A..R..L... per pearl or perla as they sometimes

è say....

DUHH... that's supposed to be NOT pearl or perla, not per. Sorry

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[Guest guest]

Jan, Total guess here, but how about full range extraocular movements? Maybe

just says it differently from most, as I would usually hear EOMF for extraocular

movements full. Also, it is PERRL not PEARL, probably just a typo. Margaret

>>> 02/12/02 06:12PM >>>

Hi all:

I'm doing an H & P dictated by a physician's assistant, and under the physical

exam in HEENT she says: Normocephalic, atraumatic, FREOM, PEARL, mucous

membranes moist.

I have never heard FREOM and am unable to document. I've heard EOM, or

EOMI, but never FREOM. Any ideas??? Thanks in advance

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[Guest guest]

Jan, My doctors say Pearl all the time, which I was told when I first started

doing transcription and have always understood to mean PERRL. I checked my

abbreviations book and it does show PEARLA, but not PEARL. Have you ever had a

chance to check with the doc to make sure which one she means. Just wondering

as this one is new to me. Margaret

>>> 02/12/02 06:34PM >>>

Hello Margaret,

In reference to your comment:

è Also, it is PERRL not PEARL, probably just a typo.

è Margaret

Nope, not a typo. She said PEARL plain as day and it's in Neil

Abbreviations... I had to look because I had never heard it. I wondered if

FREOM was full range extraocular movements. Oh well, that's what she got...

since it's verbatim. Thanks

Jan " Typing is my life " (said sarcastically)

Remember... WSTPMTR (which means,

whoever signs the paycheck makes the rules).

[Guest guest]

Thanks Jan, That clears it up totally. Margaret

>>> 02/12/02 07:03PM >>>

BTW, I neglected to mention that when she said it, she spelled

P..E..A..R..L... per pearl or perla as they sometimes say.... which is why I

went vebatim, especially after I looked it up in and found it. Sorry

if I wasn't clear on that earlier.

Jan " Typing is my life " (said sarcastically)

Remember... WSTPMTR (which means,

whoever signs the paycheck makes the rules).