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Medical transcription is one of the fastest-growing profession in the country today.

Medical transcription offers excellent opportunity to housewives, ex-servicemen, graduate fresh or experienced, especially the newly passed ones. It is also a high income career for the graduates. You can even sit at your home and earn money from home feasibly through medical transcription career, and one can organize his/her own work timings and avoid travel to the works for and thus earn more than the usual office goers.

Nature of job, doctors will dictates the patients’ information, which we will receive in wave format through voice mail or dictaphone which consists of medical datas, which we have to type.

Transcription process is conversion of voice to electronic text form. As this process deals medical data documentation, so this is called medical transcription. The person who deals with medical data process is called Medical Transcriptionist.

Any person can do home based medical transcription program, those who are interested to learn, who able to grasp accents’ of dictators’ voice, who able to understand English, who able to form sentences grammatically and finally, who wants to earn money shortly from home or office.

There are many institutions that providing free home based medical transcription training through internet with their own “terms and condition” and time limits, duration. To avail home based medical transcription training you should computer laptop or desktop with UPS, phone and internet connection for communications. They would design the program accordingly where one can learn medical transcription from home.

Home based Medical transcription Training program duration may be 2 to 4 months.

After successful completion of home medical transcription training from institute based on your quality and quantity, you will be offered a home based job medical transcription immediately, and you are supposed to sign an agreement and can start medical transcription job from home and can start earning from home. Companies will provide you files through internet which has to be transcribed.

Based on your quality and quantity, remuneration will be fixed with incentives per month and remuneration will be gradually increased as your experience increases. One can start earn initially low, but gradually can increase with incentives as experience increases.

Quality - the document should be without error and should not commit error beyond the limit. Files should be submitted with minimum 90% accuracy to company by the medical transcriptionist and to the client, 99.5% accuracy after QC/QA. Quantity - a transcriptionist should be able to transcribe minimum of 350 lines per day, initially after successful training.

Main advantage of taking home based medical transcription work, one can organize their own work timings. They can reduce your traveling time 2 to 4 hours, so that can spend more time in working to earn more.

Sunday, 29 July 2012

Exploratory laparotomy with radical pelvic and abdominal tumor debulking for primary ovarian malignancy including right salpingo-oophorectomy retroperitoneal lymphadenectomy, tumor resection from cul-de-sac Gastrectomy, partial for tumor extension Ileal small bowel resection for obstruction Ascending colectomy for tumor mass Appendectomy, indicative for tumor nodules Mobilization of the splenic and hepatic flexures with ileoascending colon anastomosis Right ureterolysis Cystourethroscopy Bilateral pelvic drain placement Transfusion, 2 units of PRBCs Central venous line placement.


PREOPERATIVE DIAGNOSES:
1.  Abdominal-pelvic mass.
2.  Bowel obstruction.
3.  Prior hysterectomy.
4.  Ovarian mass, suspected primary malignancy.
5.  Abdominal abscess.
6.  Right ureteral obstruction.

POSTOPERATIVE DIAGNOSIS:
1.  Abdominal-pelvic mass.
2.  Bowel obstruction.
3.  Prior hysterectomy.
4.  Ovarian mass, suspected primary malignancy.
5.  Abdominal abscess.
6.  Right ureteral obstruction.
7.  Tumor extension to the small bowel, large bowel mesentry, pelvic brim.
8.  Tumor extension to the stomach.

PROCEDURE:
1.  Exploratory laparotomy with radical pelvic and abdominal tumor debulking for primary ovarian malignancy including right salpingo-oophorectomy, retroperitoneal lymphadenectomy, tumor resection from cul-de-sac.
2.  Gastrectomy, partial for tumor extension.
3.  Ileal small bowel resection for obstruction.
4.  Ascending colectomy for tumor mass.
5.  Appendectomy, indicative for tumor nodules.
6.  Mobilization of the splenic and hepatic flexures with ileoascending colon anastomosis.
7.  Right ureterolysis.
8.  Cystourethroscopy.
9.  Bilateral pelvic drain placement.
10.  Transfusion, 2 units of PRBCs.
11.  Central venous line placement.

COMPLICATIONS:                                     None.

ESTIMATED BLOOD LOSS:                    500 mL.

DRAINS:                                                        Transurethral Foley to gravity.

FLUIDS:                                                        IV lactated Ringers 2500 mL.  IV PRBCs 2 units.

URINE OUTPUT:                                        300 mL.

SPECIMENS:                                               Pelvic and cul-de-sac tumor, right ovarian mass, right fallopian tube inclusive of retroperitoneal lymphadenectomy specimens, nodal tissue with tumor extension.  Ileocecal mass with distal ileum, small bowel resection, cecum, and ascending colon.  Appendix replaced with tumor.  Infracolic omentectomy specimen.  Partial gastrectomy specimen with tumor mass.  Right pelvic sidewall peritoneum with miliary disease.

CYTOLOGY:                                                            Abdominal ascites.

FINDINGS:
1.  Exam under anesthesia:  External genitalia/BUS notable for mass filling the pelvis, extending to the pelvic brim.  Limited mobility compatible with fixated ovarian tumor.  Rectal vault with extrinsic compression without apparent rectal mucosal tumor extension.
2.  Operative:  At laparotomy, mass arising from the right pelvic sidewall encasing the rectosigmoid colon with extension to the ileocecum mesentery, replacement of suspected appendix with tumor extending to the mesentery at the level of the pelvic brim.  Near-complete obstruction, ileocecal region, large and small bowel loops with complex mass encasement.  Tumor extension to the greater curvature of the stomach and greater omentum.  Diaphragmatic surfaces are clear.  Liver, otherwise, free of parenchymal pathology on palpation.
3.  Pathology.  Evaluation of surgical specimens compatible with primary ovarian malignancy, pending final review.

DISPOSITION:                                             The patient was transferred to the recovery room in stable condition.

JUSTIFICATION:                                        The patient is an 83-year-old female admitted for further evaluation and management of above diagnoses.  Prior clinical history remarkable for worsening abdominal and pelvic pain, nausea, vomiting, and obstructive-type symptoms.  The patient was admitted and taken to the surgery for the above procedures, for the above diagnoses.  The patient is aware of the potential for thromboembolic events including deep venous thrombosis, stroke, and pulmonary embolus.  She is aware that her risks may be elevated given her prior medical history, possible diagnosis of suspected malignancy, anticipated surgical procedures.  All of the patient's questions have been answered, apparently to her satisfaction.  The patient has elected to proceed with surgery and is medically cleared.

PROCEDURE IN DETAIL:                                    Following documentation of informed consent for the above procedures, the patient was brought to the operative suite where she was administered general anesthesia, prepped and draped in the usual sterile fashion in the low lithotomy position in Allen stirrups.  Exam under anesthesia was performed.  The above findings were noted.  A midline skin incision was made two fingerbreadths above the symphysis pubis to the level of the umbilicus.  Incision was further extended above the umbilicus with abdominal and pelvic contents noted, suspected infiltrated tumor involving the omentum, metastatic disease, throughout the abdominal cavity.  The incision was further developed, the abdomen was entered and evacuated with approximately 3 liters of fluid and ascites, and a thorough and systematic exploration of the abdomen and pelvis was conducted.  The Bookwalter retractor was placed.  The mass arising from the omentum was mobilized, reflected caudad.  Infracolic omentectomy was carried out taking care to isolate, divide and ligate all vascular pedicles using 2-0 silk ligatures, and the LigaSure was also utilized to secure small vessels and lymph channels.  Dissection was carried into the splenic and hepatic flexures.  The splenic flexures were mobilized along the avascular line of Toldt bilaterally.  This was done to facilitate mobilization of the tumor arising from the greater curvature of the stomach.  The short gastric vessels are taken down and gastroepiploic blood supply to the tumor was mobilized and secured using suture ligatures of 2-0 Vicryl used throughout this case unless otherwise specified.  Ongoing tumor resection from the greater curvature of the stomach was completed resecting superficial muscularis en bloc with the tumor.  The resection site was closed using primary layer of 0 Vicryl followed by a secondary layer of imbricating 2-0 silk suture to reinforce the suture line with exact hemostasis noted.  The area was irrigated and attention was turned to the pelvis.

Tumor arising from the right pelvic sidewall, right ovary and tube was noted.  The round ligament on the right side was isolated, divided, and the pararectal and paravesical spaces are thoroughly developed with identification of the ureters and major vessels in their pelvic course bilaterally.  The infundibulopelvic ligament on the right side was isolated, clamped, divided and doubly ligated using 2-0 silk ligatures.  Right ureterolysis was carried out from the level of the pelvic brim to level of the uterine vessel remnants which are noted to supply the mass with significant blood supply from the right hemipelvis.  Ongoing en bloc resection was carried out in a lateral-to-medial direction mobilizing the tumor in a blunt and sharp dissection taking care to isolate, divide, and ligate all vascular pedicles using 2-0 silk ligatures.  Care was taken to resect nodal tissue from the length of the external iliac artery and vein with isolation and preservation of the obturator neurovascular bundle and vital structures, vessels.  Following resection of the mass to the level of the cul-de-sac, en bloc resection of the peritoneum was carried out in a lateral-to-medial direction to the level of the rectosigmoid colon, vaginal cuff apex.  The denuded areas are oversewn using 2-0 Vicryl sutures again with hemostasis noted and the mass was reflected from the operative field and sent to Pathology.  Peritoneum was also resected and sent as well.  The area was irrigated, and attention was turned to the right hemipelvis, pelvic brim region.

The cecum was mobilized in a lateral-to-medial direction.  The area distal to the tumor obstruction at the ileocecal valve and mesentery was mobilized.  A window was developed in the ascending colon where the colon was divided with the aid of the GIA stapler.  Proximal to the area of obstruction, the small bowel is mobilized and a window developed in the mesentery.  The small bowel was divided at this location as well.  The mesentery was Kocherized and tumor resected en bloc from the mesentery with dissection carried out again in a lateral-to-medial direction taking care to isolate and preserve blood supply to the remaining small bowel and large bowel.  Mass arising from suspected appendiceal area was also reflected from the infundibulopelvic ligament region taking care to isolate and preserve the integrity of the IP pedicle, which was noted to be hemostatic and secure.

Following resection of the mesentery, the mass was released en bloc inclusive of the cecum, proximal ascending colon, distal ileum, and suspected appendix with tumor replacement.  The mass was sent to pathology.  The area was irrigated.  The second segment of distal ileum was resected for mesenteric tumor to assure clean margin.  The ascending colon and distal ileal limbs were all aligned for anastomosis using 3-0 silk ligatures.  The GIA was used to create a side-to-side anastomosis followed by visual inspection of the anastomotic line notable for integrity, hemostasis.  The anastomosis was completed using the TA 65 stapler and the mesenteric window was closed using interrupted sutures of 2-0 Vicryl.  The abdomen and pelvis were densely irrigated.  Hemostasis noted at all pedicles.  Cystourethroscopy was performed.  Findings are notable for free spill of indigo carmine dye from both the right and left ureteral orifice.  The bladder mucosa and the urethral mucosa were free of gross suture violation, free of evidence of injury or gross pathology.  All instruments were removed from the bladder.  A Foley catheter was replaced in the bladder.  The abdomen was then closed using #1 loop PDS suture to reapproximate the fascial margins in a mass closure fashion over bilateral pelvic drains.  Subcutaneous tissue irrigated with a bulb syringe and skin margins were closed with staples.  All sponge and needle counts were correct x3 at the end of the case.  The patient tolerated these procedures well and was transferred to the recovery room in stable condition.

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