ABBREVIATION EXPANDERS

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ACT expands into advanced code team in the setting of Sacred Heart Hospital.

ARB expands into angiotensin receptor blockers.
ART in setting of Lakeview program expands into Adult Residential Treatment.
ART in setting of radiation therapy expands into adaptive radiation therapy.
ASU expands into Ambulatory Surgery Unit (or Surgical).
CECT expands into contrast-enhanced computerized tomography (in Impression/Diagnosis sections).
CPMRDD expands into cerebral palsy, mental retardation, developmental delay.
CRRT expands into continuous renal replacement therapy.
cTnI is a test and would not be expanded unless in impression, but it expands into cardiac troponin troponin I.
CVP expands into central venous pressure.
EMV expands into eye, motor, verbal.
ESA expands into erythropoiesis stimulating agent.
ETOH expands into ethyl alcohol or ethanol.
EuroSCORE expands into European System for Cardiac Operative Risk Evaluation.
FSE expands into fetal scalp electrode.
HIFU expands into high-frequency focused ultrasound.
HRPC expands into hormone-refractory prostate cancer.
IGRT expands into image guidance radiation therapy.
IUPC expands into intrauterine pressure catheter.
LISS expands into less invasive stabilization system.
K/DOQI expands into Kidney Disease Outcomes Quality Initiative.
LUNA expands into laparoscopic uterosacral nerve ablation.
MALT expands into mucosa-associated lymphoid tumor.
MCA expands into middle cerebral artery in context of stroke or other neurological cases.
MODS expands into multiple organ dysfunction syndrome.
MODY expands into maturity-onset diabetes mellitus of youth.
MRV expands into magnetic resonance venography, but only in the impression/diagnosis sections.
MUD expands into match unrelated donor (transplant).
NASH expands into nonalcoholic steatohepatitis.
OATS procedure expands into osteochondral autograft transfer (or transplant) system procedure.
PANDA syndrome expands into pediatric autoimmune neuropsychiatric disorders.
PEEP expands into positive end-expiratory pressure..
PEP expands into positive expiratory pressure.
PISA expands into proximal isovelocity surface area, a radius measured in echocardiograms.
PMT expands into pacemaker-mediated tachycardia.
PPAND expands into pelvic and para-aortic node dissection.
PPH expands into procedure for prolapse and hemorrhoids.
PUND expands into pregnancy, uterine, not delivered.
PUPPS expands into pruritic urticarial papules and plaques of pregnancy.
PUPS expands into pruritic urticarial papules of pregnancy.
RC expands into respiratory compromise, usually in the pediatric setting.
RGS expands into routine glucose screen (if used in impression/diagnosis).
RPLB expands into right posterolateral branch.
SIMV expands into synchronized intermittent mandatory ventilation.
SIRS expands into systemic inflammatory response syndrome.
STN expands into subthalamic nucleus.
TAPP expands into transabdominal preperitoneal
TEP expands into total extraperitoneal.
TIP procedure expands into tubularized incised plate procedure.
TFN expands into trochanteric fixation nail.

SBP expands into spontaneous bacterial peritonitis.
URP expands into urethral retroresistance pressure.
VAC expands into vacuum-assisted closure device or else rendered V.A.C.

VATS expands into video-assisted thoracoscopic surgery.

VMO expands into vastus medialis obliquus.