Latest Medical Transcription Terms List Seven

By Raj | Oct 27, 2008

Easy and speedy access to medical terms is one of the key secrets to improve your productivity in medical transcription, for which you need to have the reference materials right on your desktop, better as a soft copy. If you’re unable to have those softwares in your system for some reason, at least a hard copy of a medical dictionary, drug and surgical references should be within your easy reach. However, with a number of new drugs, instruments, procedures and terms coming into existence daily, it is next to impossible for those softwares and hard copies to contain each and every term.

The only next alternative would be internet and search engines, the vast source of information, where you get information on anything right from homemaking to rocket science, aliens or extraterrestrial objects. Still if you are unable to zero in on that latest medical term, drug name or surgical material, and the context of its usage even after an extensive research on the internet, then it would be worth giving a try on MT Daily’s New Terms Board (you need to subscribe, a nominal subscription amount, worthy). Here are a few latest medical terms they have provided this week for your perusal:

AdreView (iobenguane I-123) injection for detecting neuroendocrine tumors
Akten ophthalmic gel
Alaway for itching eyes
Alimta for non-small-cell lung cancer
Alutard SQ for asthma
Amigal (migalastat hydrochloride) for Fabry disease
AneuGraft pericardium covered stent
Aplenzin (bupropion hydrobromide) for depression
ATTRACT (acute venous thrombosis: thrombus removal with adjunctive catheter-directed thrombolysis)
Birmingham hip resurfacing system
Caelyx (pegylated liposomal doxorubicin hydrochloride) for advanced ovarian cancer
cariprazine antipsychotic
Cinryze for angioedema
Cleviprex (clevidipine butyrate) for hypertension
clobazam for Lennox-Gastaut syndrome
CosmetaLife dermal filler injection
CozMore insulin system
C-Pulse implantable aortic cuff
Evolence dermal filler
Exeleras system, implantable device for heart failure
FulFil lip cosmetic implant
Gore Propaten vascular graft
HemiCAP implant for focal femoral condyle defects
Hickey cardiac monitoring with 2-balloon esophageal catheter
Iluvien intravitreal insert for diabetic macular edema
Inhaled treprostinil for Pneumocystis jiroveci pneumonia
Pantethine dietary supplement for lipid management
Precision Flow high-flow oxygen therapy
Quixin (levofloxacin ophthalmic solution) for bacterial conjunctivitis
Rapaflo (silodosin) for BPH
Relistor for opioid-induced constipation
ReValving procedure for aortic valve
Sancuso patch for chemo-related nausea and vomiting
Skins and Bones orthopedic support footwear
smartSTIK-MD finger-activated portable electronic medical record
Solaraze (diclofenac sodium) for actinic keratosis
Solestra for fecal incontinence
Solzira (gabapentin enacarbil) for restless leg syndrome
Stavzor (valproic acid) for bipolar, seizures, epilepsy, and migraine prophylaxis
TaqMan HBV test for viral load
tegaserod for chronic constipation
teriparatide for glucocorticoid-induced osteoporosis
ToleroMune for allergies
Trivaris (triamcinolone acetonide) for ocular inflammation
varespladib for acute coronary syndrome
Videx EC (didanosine) for HIV-1
Watchman left atrial appendage closure
Xalieve for xerostomia (dry mouth)
Xenazine (tetrabenazine) for chorea of Huntington disease
Yeast Traffic Light, rapid test for candida
Zeftera (ceftobiprole medocaril IV) for cSSSI, complicated skin and skin structure infections