general ? and pulmonary drug help

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1. General question -

Assessment: Mild asthma.

History: The patient is......

Physical Examination: Lungs clear bilaterally.

Allergies: None.

Is there one or two spaces between the " : " and the first letter of the next

word? My Word97 grammar check tells me it is one space but I always thought

it was two. Who is correct?

2. Drug Help -

A patient with viral bronchitis and cystic fibrosis - Medications:

Pulmozyme. Chest PT and flutter 2-3 times a day. s/l Altrace MT 20, Zantac

8X and vitamin K.

Is chest PT correct? and there is no Altrace MT. I don't think its Altace?

The dictator said " Zantac eight x (as in the letter not times) " did I type

it correctly?

Bev W.

[Guest guest]

FYI - I started out in 1980 taking Inderal for palpitations. After being on

it for 18 years, all of a sudden I could hardly breathe! So now I am on

Atenolol. I tell you this because BP meds are used to control flutter

sometimes, so I would think that Altace could possibly be correct since it

is listed as an antihypertensive.

Saved by His Blood,

Debi

general ? and pulmonary drug help

> 1. General question -

>

> Assessment: Mild asthma.

> History: The patient is......

> Physical Examination: Lungs clear bilaterally.

> Allergies: None.

>

> Is there one or two spaces between the " : " and the first letter of the

next

> word? My Word97 grammar check tells me it is one space but I always

thought

> it was two. Who is correct?

>

> 2. Drug Help -

>

> A patient with viral bronchitis and cystic fibrosis - Medications:

> Pulmozyme. Chest PT and flutter 2-3 times a day. s/l Altrace MT 20, Zantac

> 8X and vitamin K.

>

> Is chest PT correct? and there is no Altrace MT. I don't think its

Altace?

> The dictator said " Zantac eight x (as in the letter not times) " did I type

> it correctly?

>

> Bev W.

>

>

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[Guest guest]

Saturday, November 06, 1999, 4:07:38 PM, walhof wrote:

w> Is there one or two spaces between the " : " and the first letter

w> of the next word? My Word97 grammar check tells me it is one

w> space but I always thought it was two. Who is correct?

This is one of those things that began changing with the advent of

computers and, more specifically, with modern word processing.

The general consensus, as I understand it, is this: If you are

using a fixed-width font, such as Courier, you generally use two

spaces after the colon; if you're using a variable-width font, such

as Arial, Times Roman, etc., you use one.

I've worked in offices that used either one or two spaces after

colons and periods, even in the latter case. It's still largely " a

style thing, " and one should follow the style their employer

requests.

Ultimately, I feel it's of little importance, personally, as long as

one is *consistent* about which method is used. It certainly will

not affect patient care. :-)

Chuck

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