Como se dice....

[DrQuinn]

---

Members don't see this ad.

so I'm making a powerpoint for my toxicology lecture that I have to give tomorrow (Seroquel OD and Theophylline OD) and there's lots of mg/mL, mcg/mL, L/kg...

and I thought...
hm, people differ.

So how do you guys say: mg/kg out loud?
do you say milligrams per kilogram?
migs per kig?
em-gee per kay-gee?

I think migs per kig sounds too much like something off of ER on NBC.

Just a random thought as I sit here in the poison control center.

Q

 

[WakeMedHeel]

so I'm making a powerpoint for my toxicology lecture that I have to give tomorrow (Seroquel OD and Theophylline OD) and there's lots of mg/mL, mcg/mL, L/kg...

and I thought...
hm, people differ.

So how do you guys say: mg/kg out loud?
do you say milligrams per kilogram?
migs per kig?
em-gee per kay-gee?

I think migs per kig sounds too much like something off of ER on NBC.

Just a random thought as I sit here in the poison control center.

Q

I'd start out with the more formal milligrams per...and then mix it up throughout the presentation.

 

[Jeff698]

I think migs per kig sounds too much like something off of ER on NBC.Q

I agree. I've always thought it sounded like a Russian Fighter jet with a large vat of beer on the wing.

I think this pronunciation should be banished to the same sordid place where people happily talk about distance in 'klicks' and cervical dialation in 'sonometers'.

Take care,
Jeff

 

[OSUdoc08]

so I'm making a powerpoint for my toxicology lecture that I have to give tomorrow (Seroquel OD and Theophylline OD) and there's lots of mg/mL, mcg/mL, L/kg...

and I thought...
hm, people differ.

So how do you guys say: mg/kg out loud?
do you say milligrams per kilogram?
migs per kig?
em-gee per kay-gee?

I think migs per kig sounds too much like something off of ER on NBC.

Just a random thought as I sit here in the poison control center.

Q

We always called it "mills per kill."

 

[aphistis]

I agree. I've always thought it sounded like a Russian Fighter jet with a large vat of beer on the wing.

I think this pronunciation should be banished to the same sordid place where people happily talk about distance in 'klicks' and cervical dialation in 'sonometers'.

Take care,
Jeff

Sontimeters, OK, but klicks is pretty common military shorthand. That's a lot of folks you're banishing to the nether planes. 😉

 

[Scrubbs]

Does the sordid place have a pool and a good bar? I always liked migs per kig.... 😀

 

[meister]

I would slap anyone who said "migs per kigs."

 

[roja]

Milligrams per KG

 

[leviathan]

so I'm making a powerpoint for my toxicology lecture that I have to give tomorrow (Seroquel OD and Theophylline OD) and there's lots of mg/mL, mcg/mL, L/kg...

and I thought...
hm, people differ.

So how do you guys say: mg/kg out loud?
do you say milligrams per kilogram?
migs per kig?
em-gee per kay-gee?

I think migs per kig sounds too much like something off of ER on NBC.

Just a random thought as I sit here in the poison control center.

Q

If you're going for an ultimately professional lecture, make it "milligrams per kilogram" every time. If it's not as important, but you have to say it 1000 times in your lecture, maybe just saying it the first time will suffice followed by abbreviating it the rest of the time. I'd personally stay away from migs per kig for fear of looking like an ER (show) junkie, but "emgee per kaygee" sounds good to me. That's my $0.02.

 

[Seaglass]

Come on, migs per kig is fine, and is what I prefer. Anything else is just self-flagellation IMHO.

 

[margaritaboy]

What in the hell is a sonometer, by the way? It was always centimeter, centimeter, centimeter, then I get medical school and it has somehow morphed into a slightly different and more trendy sonometer.

 

[Jeff698]

Does the sordid place have a pool and a good bar? I always liked migs per kig.... 😀

I'm not sure. Strange, since I've been banished there myself many times for a variety of infractions. Never noticed to pool, though. Of course, if there is one, the bar will probably be clogged up with all those military "klick"-types.

Take care,
Jeff

 

[12R34Y]

We always talked in the paramedic program i trained at and in first ED job in "migs per kilo" Not "migs per kigs" never heard that one.

However, I moved a few states away to work at a different ambulance service and my first partner looked at me like I was on crack when I said "migs per kilo".........I quote "what in the hell is a mig?"

later

 

[leviathan]

What in the hell is a sonometer, by the way? It was always centimeter, centimeter, centimeter, then I get medical school and it has somehow morphed into a slightly different and more trendy sonometer.

And up in these parts it's centimetre.

 

[Annette]

You could just leave off the mg/kg or ml per what ever and let the pharm types figure it out. 😉

 

[Homunculus]

as a pediatric type who deals with mg/kg on a daily basis we usually say "migs per kilogram" though occasionally a "mig per kig" will slip out. Longer abbreviations we just go with "CKD" (cc/kg/day) or "CKH" (cc/kg/hr)

-your friendly neighborhood calculating caveman