Adrian Fogarty <[log in to unmask]>typed
> There are very occasional medical exceptions to this, the most well known
> and the only two I can think of right now being CABG and AIDs, each
> pronounced as a word but unrelated to the topic in question. However, in
> each of these examples the acronym was coined very shortly after the
> condition or procedure arose. Headaches have been with us a long time now.
> In saying that, "lone acute severe" ("severe" surely fits better than
> "sudden" which is already covered by the word "acute", although some might
> argue that point) does neatly describe the particular patient population in
> question. But I still don't think it'll catch on...
Maybe we should just abbreviate Severe Acute Headache as SAH to remind
ourselves:
1) How confusing abbreviations can be &
2) How difficult it is to diagnose sub-arachnoid haemorrhage...
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Helen D. Vecht: [log in to unmask]
Edgware.
