About subcutaneous abbreviation.
Started by mwpharm
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
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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 every morning has clearly been replaced by qam and everyone should be uniform with that.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
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
Once I thought about "H"uman "I"nsulin
Was gonna guess Hawaii...
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.
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"...
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