Anyone good with medical terminology and dechiphering doctors' writing?

[Wallace]

I've been reading dd's notes from when she had heart surgery (VSD closure) and there is a bit I can't make out.

From the notes during the surgery "Tolerated procedure well. L.. mixed venus s...... ? cause. 2:1 Heart block on rewarming > sinus rhythm without intervention"

So what could the missing bit be? I understand the rest but put it in incase it is relevant.

The same term also crops up on the discharge summary from ITu to HDU on the ward "NB L.. mixed venus s... intra op > ? cause"

Now I know I don't really need to know - op was several years ago and dd is fantastically well. But I would like to know

saturation I would think.

That's what I thought but it really doesn't look like satuaration.

(ps I can spell decipher )

I've had another look and I cannot make it say saturation however hard I try.

i wish I had a scanner...

what about shunt? bit of a wild guess.

I think it starts "sc..." but really not sure.

Thank you for trying

my money's on 'mixed venous sats'

how long is the word? sat? sugar? simpleton?

Could it be SvO2?

Is the L.. low? If so I would think sats or SvO2 as it's a measure of cardiac output, I think.

mixed venous hemoglobin oxygen saturation (SvO2)

It is longer than SvO2, but shorter than saturation. I think it also ends in an s. And it does say "venus" not "venous"

It will probably turn out to be something obvious like the mumsnetter who was wondering what on earth "p6 next" could mean in her daughters reading homework

Perhaps the venus denotes a doc with poor spelling as well as poor hand writing Wallace

So true.

Or maybe he was just on a different planet...

I think you are right that the L is low. I think the s word ends "tus"

Could it possibly be 'mixed venous stasis'?

'mixed venous status'

Actually, I have decided it could possible say "saturations" after all The doc seems to blend lots of letters into one sqiggle

Thank you all for your help

status possibly

Sorry rene I didn't see your post!

sinus, status, not that I know what any of it means...