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Medical - Medical (general) | | English term or phrase: AMB | Nursing diagnoses a patient with Heart Failure.
Decreased CO related to effects of high systemic pressure, pulmonary pressures AMB greater than BP, cough, SOB, and peripheral edema. Ineffective gas exchange related to increased pulmonary capillary pressure AMB cough and dyspnea. |
| | | ambient air pressure | Explanation:
If Liz can't find it, it's a hard one!
I came across the link below, which is related to breathing and uses AMB as an abbreviation for ambient air pressure. I have no way of knowing if this is a widely used abbreviation, but it does seem to be a scientific source. |
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 Martin Riordan
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43 mins confidence:   peer agreement (net): +2 | amb ambient air pressure
Explanation:
If Liz can't find it, it's a hard one!
I came across the link below, which is related to breathing and uses AMB as an abbreviation for ambient air pressure. I have no way of knowing if this is a widely used abbreviation, but it does seem to be a scientific source.
Example sentence(s):- Partial pressures of oxygen for increasing altitude, as measured in the ambient air (AMB), in the airways after the inspired air has been warmed and humidified (INSP), in the alveolus after CO2 has been added (ALV) and in the arterial blood (ART).
Reference: http://books.google.com.br/books?id=QMi7_cmEf3gC&pg=PA307&lp...
| Martin Riordan
Brazil
Local time: 17:37
Native speaker of:  English, Portuguese
PRO pts in category: 148
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Reference information:
ambulatory
is all I am able to find
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Note added at 28 mins (2012-01-26 11:53:33 GMT)
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Ambulatory blood pressure monitoring in heart failure: a systematic ...
eurjhf.oxfordjournals.org/content/7/2/149.full
by D Goyal - 2005 - Cited by 14 - Related articles
Any role for ambulatory blood pressure monitoring in heart failure is not well defined. .... intermittent blood pressure monitoring was first developed more than 30 .... pericardial disease, restrictive cardiomyopathy, and lung disease and simple
trouble is there are no other references with your phrase...
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Note added at 59 mins (2012-01-26 12:24:41 GMT)
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p.s.
also, I was unable to access the book that contains this phrase (nurse's book?)
| liz askew
United Kingdom
Specializes in field
Native speaker of:  English
PRO pts in category: 76
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