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Knee Arthroscopy..s/l after "infiltrating with pulse lavage" with 1% xylocaine the scope was..

Posted By: babs on 2005-08-11
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Subject: "Pulsox" is not a word. pulse ox is short for pulse oximetry, that's it. nm

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Subject: I change it to pulse oximetry but pulse ox is fine.


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