p - q

• pa: physician's assistant
• p&a: percussion and auscultation
• pacu: post anesthesia care unit
• paf: paroxysmal atrial fibrillation
• palp: palpate, palpated, palpable
• path: pathology
• pa view: posterior anterior view on xray
• p/c, pc: after meals
• pd: parkinson's disease
• pdr: powder
• pdn: private duty nurse
• pe: physical examination, pulmonary embolism, pressure equalizer
• ped: pediatrics
• peep: positive end expiratory pressure
• peg: percutaneous endoscopic gastrostomy
• ph: past history
• pharm: pharmacy
• phys: physical, physiology
• pi: present illness, pulmonary insufficiency
• picu: pulmonary intensive care unit
• pid: pelvic inflammatory disease
• plts: platelets
• pm: afternoon, postmortem
• pmh: past medical history
• pmr: physical medicine and rehabilitation
• pn: poorly nourished, practical nurse
• p&n: psychiatry and neurology
• pna: pneumo, pneumonia
• pni: peripheral nerve injury
• pnx: pneumothorax
• po: by mouth
• pod: postoperative day
• pos: positive
• post: posterior
• postop: postoperative
• pot, potass: potassium
• pr: proctology
• pre-op: preoperative
• prep: prepare for
• prm: according to circumstances