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The NPI is a 10-position, intelligence-free numeric identifier (10-digit number). This means that the numbers do not carry other information about healthcare providers, such as the state in which they live or their medical specialty. The NPI must be used in lieu of legacy provider identifiers in the HIPAA standards transactions.
List of medical abbreviations: Overview; List of medical abbreviations: Latin abbreviations; List of abbreviations for medical organisations and personnel; List of abbreviations used in medical prescriptions; List of optometric abbreviations
The first principle of treatment is to relieve the airway obstruction. Most commonly, this is done through endotracheal intubation. This ensures appropriate airway support and allows for easy supply of supplemental oxygen. Positive pressures oxygenation is used to reverse the negative pressures in the chest resulting from the obstruction.
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").
These may include national medical specialty societies, other national health care professional associations, accrediting bodies and federal regulatory agencies. Category II codes make use of an alphabetical character as the 5th character in the string (i.e., 4 digits followed by the letter F).
L. List of medical abbreviations: Latin abbreviations; List of medical abbreviations: D; List of medical abbreviations: E; List of medical abbreviations: F
Sortable table Abbreviation Meaning Nφ: Neutrophil: Na: sodium (from Latin natrium) : NA: negative appendectomy NAAT: Nucleic Acid Amplification Test: NABS: normoactive bowel sounds