About subcutaneous abbreviation.

[mwpharm]

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May I ask if anyone in practice saw subcutaneously injection abbreviated as "HI"?
I was told this is my old abbreviation...
May I know what is it stand for actually?

 

[zelman]

Halfway in.







Just kidding. I’ve never heard of this.

 

[JustFillIt]

Halfway in.







Just kidding. I’ve never heard of this.

Lol! You had me going there for a second. I have worked with some “old lady pharmacists”. No - they actually called themselves the “old lady pharmacists”. There was a group of several of them and they were clingy as ****.... I actually felt jealous that I was not an old lady as I worked around them. I have never felt so belittled by old ladies in my life other than the time in my life when they would change my diaper..

Anyways - I digress... My point is, the older generation of pharmacist seems to know all sorts of weird abbreviations and they would always shame me for not know it.

For a second there I thought you were one of the old lady pharmacists that was ostracizing me for not knowing that HI meant halfway in..

The pain they caused is real.. I need to seek help

 

[mwpharm]

"Tresiba 52 UNIT OM for 2 weeks HI"
Something like this...

 

[JustFillIt]

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Something like this...

Haha - Wow I am guessing that comes from someone with a well overinflated ego.

This is Tresiba for otitis media right? Haha yea I know... this is a super elusive way of saying every morning.. every morning has clearly been replaced by qam and everyone should be uniform with that. This is how medication errors happen

 

[beautifulrobot]

maybe it's supposed to stand for hypodermic injection? But no, I have never seen that abbreviation used on a sig before. Where is the prescriber from?

 

[JustFillIt]

maybe it's supposed to stand for hypodermic injection? But no, I have never seen that abbreviation used on a sig before. Where is the prescriber from?

Hypodermic injection... that’s a great guess.

H(word) Insulin?

 

[mwpharm]

maybe it's supposed to stand for hypodermic injection? But no, I have never seen that abbreviation used on a sig before. Where is the prescriber from?

Hong Kong

 

[mwpharm]

Hypodermic injection... that’s a great guess.

H(word) Insulin?

Once I thought about "H"uman "I"nsulin

 

[lane one]

Hong Kong

Was gonna guess Hawaii...

 

[mwpharm]

Hypodermic injection... that’s a great guess.

H(word) Insulin?

I kind of agree that it should be referred to hypodermic injection (HI)... maybe they just treat a hypodermic injection as equivalent to a subcutaneous injection.

 

[BidingMyTime]

Well, I'm older (ie middle age), but I have never heard/seen this. Hypodermic Injection seems to be the most likely think, but it's best to just use the standardized abbreviations to prevent med errors.

 

[mwpharm]

Well, I'm older (ie middle age), but I have never heard/seen this. Hypodermic Injection seems to be the most likely think, but it's best to just use the standardized abbreviations to prevent med errors.

I totally agree that it should not be one of the accepted abbreviations. However, there are still many "even older" doctors will not follow and keep writing "HI", "IVI", "IMI", "QD"...