Compress medical notes into shorthand
What is this site about ?
Home
Dictated medical notes are often verbose, this program removes useless words, uses shorter alternatives (e.g. 'suffered a fall' is the same as 'fell') & converts medical terms to standard shorthand for healthcare professionals. Designed for Americal medical English, new replacement phrases are added each week, suggestions welcome at drChets@ShrinkMyNote.com Example: Copy-paste to Home page box & click 'Shrink': Patient is a 89 year old gentleman with a past medical history significant for hypertension, CHF, CAD, Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus and a Motor vehicle accident 5 years ago where he sustained a fracture of his left hip, presented to the emergency department from his nursing home with complains of shortness of breath, headache, chills with nausea and emesis for two days. He also suffered a fall yesterday due to weakness and feeling lightheaded but denied hitting his head. In the ED, vitals revealed a blood pressure of 90/50, heart rate of 130, elevated temperature of 102F while needing 4 liters oxygen via nasal cannula. Physical exam revealed a tired-looking, lethargic but oriented elderly gentleman with tachypnea. Lung sounds reduced with coarse rales on the right base, irregular , fast pulse, no edema. EKG showed atrial fibrillation with RVR. His labs showed a white cell count of 12K, hemoglobin 10, INR 1.2 and electrolyte panel was normal including LFTs. Troponin I was less than 0.003 and d-dimer was normal. A chest xray was consistent with bilateral multifocal pneumonia with evolving pulmonary edema suggesting congestive heart failure. After drawing blood cultures, a 500cc bolus of normal saline was administered for low blood pressure and a loading dose of digoxin. He was then started on IV cefepime every 8 hours with daily vancomycin
