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French term or phrase:	s/p mort subite
English translation:	past history of cardiac arrest
Entered by:	Joan Berglund

21:12 Apr 12, 2012

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French term or phrase: s/p mort subite

This is from the medical history section of some handwritten progress notes of a patient who just had a double bypass and is not at all dead. The sentence reads
"s/p mort subit 38 ans defibrillateur"
So he was mostly dead but he got better? Can status post sudden death be a concept in English? The notes are all handwritten, there is no printed material, so I could be reading it wrong, but it has come up twice now.

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past history of cardiac arrest

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past history of cardiac arrest

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Joan Berglund

United States

ASKER

12:59 Apr 13, 2012

past history of cardiac arrest sounds much better than my idea, thanks.

Rowena Fuller (X)

France

mort subite

06:23 Apr 13, 2012

Been there, got the tee-shirt! It means sudden cardiac arrest, which technically means being temporarily dead, though you can be brought back using electric shock apparatus. Not a medical translator, but I do know this is correct :-)

SJLD

06:05 Apr 13, 2012

Example in English (very North American):
http://meded.ucsd.edu/clinicalmed/oral.htm

Past Surgical History: Any prior surgeries (along with the year in which they occurred) are noted.

"Past surgical history is remarkable for:

Status Post Cholycystectomy 1990
Status Post Appendectomy 1985
Status Post open repair and internal fixation of left femur fracture, 1983"

SJLD

status post

06:00 Apr 13, 2012

past history of cardiac arrest at 38 years - SP sometimes used to mean past history of. Obviously if he's alive, it was not "mort subite" but a near miss!
Défibrillateur - this could mean he was resusced by defibrillation or has an ICD (implantable cardioverter defibrillator).

Aniele

02:56 Apr 13, 2012

"s/p " could refer to "sapeur pompier" which is a firefighter.

Joan Berglund

United States

ASKER

21:49 Apr 12, 2012

I actually found two references, and one does refer to implanting a defibrillator, which might be what my sentence is saying. http://volusia.org/ems/MAB07-20-04.pdf
Still, two is not very many references.

liz askew

United Kingdom

21:30 Apr 12, 2012

I'd look into this in more detail though. p.s. I found nothing for "status post sudden cardiac death"..:) Good night.

liz askew

United Kingdom

21:30 Apr 12, 2012

www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22302278
by J Kovach - 2012 - Related articles
3 Feb 2012 – Automated External Defibrillators and Secondary Prevention of Sudden Cardiac Death Among Children and Adolescents. Kovach J, Berger S.

Joan Berglund

United States

ASKER

21:28 Apr 12, 2012

ok, thanks Liz.

liz askew

United Kingdom

21:26 Apr 12, 2012

secondary prevention?
Good luck, signing off now.

liz askew

United Kingdom

21:24 Apr 12, 2012

see pages 26> re s/p

liz askew

United Kingdom

21:22 Apr 12, 2012

here "mort subite" = sudden cardiac death
https://docs.google.com/viewer?a=v&q=cache:ZHOE3RPhYoMJ:www....

Joan Berglund

United States

ASKER

21:16 Apr 12, 2012

sorry, should be "subite"

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past history of cardiac arrest

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is how I'd do it

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