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Acute alcohol poisoning is a medical emergency due to the risk of death from respiratory depression or aspiration of vomit if vomiting occurs while the person is unresponsive. Emergency treatment strives to stabilize and maintain an open airway and sufficient breathing while waiting for the alcohol to metabolize.
The main discussion of these abbreviations in the context of drug prescriptions and other medical prescriptions is at List of abbreviations used in medical prescriptions. Some of these abbreviations are best not used, as marked and explained here.
This is a list of abbreviations used in medical prescriptions, including hospital orders (the patient-directed part of which is referred to as sig codes).This list does not include abbreviations for pharmaceuticals or drug name suffixes such as CD, CR, ER, XT (See Time release technology § List of abbreviations for those).
Pronunciation follows convention outside the medical field, in which acronyms are generally pronounced as if they were a word (JAMA, SIDS), initialisms are generally pronounced as individual letters (DNA, SSRI), and abbreviations generally use the expansion (soln. = "solution", sup. = "superior").
Alcohol-related birth defects: ARD Adult Refsum disease: ARDS Acute respiratory distress syndrome: ARND Alcohol-related neurodevelopmental disorder: ARM Anorectal malformation: AS Ankylosing spondylitis: AS Asperger syndrome: ASCVD Atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease: ASD Atrial septal defect: ASD(s) Autism spectrum disorders: ASHF Acute ...
This is a list of mnemonics used in medicine and medical science, categorized and alphabetized. A mnemonic is any technique that assists the human memory with information retention or retrieval by making abstract or impersonal information more accessible and meaningful, and therefore easier to remember; many of them are acronyms or initialisms which reduce a lengthy set of terms to a single ...
Each year in the United States, more than 100,000 people visit the emergency department due to accidental carbon monoxide, or CO, poisoning, and at least 400 people die from unintentional CO ...
alcohol-related brain injury (such as a fetal alcohol spectrum disorder or alcohol-related dementia) ARC: AIDS-related complex ARD: absolute risk difference alcohol-related dementia: ARDS: acute respiratory distress syndrome: ARF: acute renal failure: ARFID: avoidant/restrictive food intake disorder: Arg: arginine: ARM