SOME COMMONLY USED MEDICAL WORD

SOME COMMONLY USED MEDICAL WORD :

COVID-19 : Coronaviruse Disease 2019

PPE : Personal Protective Equipment

WHO : World Health Organization

HCQ : Hydroxychloroquine

CQ : Chloroquine Phosphate

CCD : Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

BP: Blood Pressure

BPM: (Heart) Beats Per Minute

CPAP: Continuous Positive Airway Pressure 

             (A ventilator setting used in the ICU)

FiO₂ : Fraction of inspired Oxygen

GCQ: General Community Quarantine

LSI: Locally Stranded Individual

            (A foreign national or citizen who is stranded in a locality different from their normal place of residence)

LRT: Lower Respiratory Tract

MAP: Mean Arterial Pressure

NIV: Noninvasive Ventilation

OI: Oxygenation Index

OSI: Oxygenation Index using SpO₂

PaO₂: Partial pressure of Oxygen

PEEP: Positive End-Expiratory Pressure

ROF: Returning Overseas Filipinos

SBP: Systolic Plood Pressure

SD: Standard Deviation

SIRS: Systemic Inflammatory Response Syndrome

SpO₂: Oxygen Saturation

URT: Upper Respiratory Tract