What is the medical term PCA?
There may be a few different meanings of abbreviation PCA. However, what is the meaning of the medical term PCA?
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What is the meaning of PCA medical abbreviation?
In science & medicine, it is Patient Controlled Analgesia the medical abbreviation PCA stands for.
PCA: Patient Controlled Analgesia
Related Medical Abbreviations
| AMA | Against Medical Advice; American Medical Association |
| C&P | crowning and pushing |
| CATH | Catheterization |
| CNE | chronic nervous exhaustion |
| CSF | Cerebral Spinal Fluid |
| CX | Culture |
| DISCUS | dyskinesia identification system condensed user scale |
| DN | dibucaine number |
| ECU | extensor carpi ulnaris; emergency care unit |
| EENT | eye, ear, nose, and throat |
| EMS | Emergency Medical System |
| FCAS | familial cold auto-inflammatory syndrome |
| FENA | Fractional Excretion of Sodium |
| FHB | flexor hallucis brevis; fetal heartbeat |
| FSH | Follicle Stimulating Hormone |
| G6-PD | glucose 6 phosphate dehydrogenase |
| HEP | home exercise program |
| IBS | Irritable Bowel Syndrome |
| LAFB | left anterior fascicular block |
| LUD | left uterine displacement |
| MMF | maxillomandibular fixation |
| NIHSS | National Institutes of Health Stroke Scale |
| OBS/OBD | organic brain syndrome/organic brain disorder |
| OPHEP | Office of Public Health Emergency Preparedness (HHS) |
| OPROC | outpatient procedure |
| PADP | pulmonary artery diastolic pressure |
| QPNG | quinolone-resistant neisseria gonorrhea |
| RDU | rheumatic disease unit |
| RIG | Rabies Immunoglobulin |
| RIH | right inguinal herniorrhaphy |
| RTW | return to work |
| ST | sinus tachycardia |
| TLC | Triple Lumen Catheter; Total Lung Capacity |
| TNBP | transurethral needle biopsy of prostate |
| TRALI | transfusion-related acute lung injury |
| Tl | Thallium (element) |
| UFR | ultrafiltration rate |
| UGI | upper gastrointestinal |
| V | Vomiting |
| XR | extended-release; x-ray |
| c.n.s. | to be taken tomorrow night (cras nocte sumendus) |
| cath | cathartic; catheter(ization) |
| ch px | chicken pox |
| cs | conditioned stimulus |
| dir | direct; director; direction |
| mHz | megahertz (1 million hertz) |
| mM | millimole |
| max | maxilla, maxillary; maximum |
| o.m. | every morning (omni mane) |
| s/p | Status post. For example, a person who had a knee operation would be s/p a knee operation. |
| stim | stimulation |
