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German to English translations [PRO]
Medical - Medical: Health Care / Hospital layout | | German term or phrase: periphere Station | In a German medical report, patient with heart trouble, mainly angina, arrived at emergency ward, then they found out it was not a heart attack, and transferred him to the above.
Here is the German sentence this phrase is found in:
"Unter konservativer Therapie kam es zu keinen erneuten Beschwerden, so dass wir den Patienten auf die periphere Station verlegen konnten."
How would this be translated into American English? I don't think we use the term "peripheral ward". Does this mean just a regular ward or is it still semi-intensive care?
Thanks,
Stephen |
|  Stephen R SchoeningKudoZ activityQuestions: 357 ( 11 open) ( 9 without valid answers) ( 5 closed without grading) Answers: 4
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| | regular ward | Explanation:
it is a normal, non-intensive care ward (funny term if you come to think about it: the ICU as the hub of the (hospital) world)
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Note added at 13 hrs (2011-05-05 11:57:39 GMT)
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@Stephen: I basically wanted to explain the meaning and took the term "regular" from your own statement, because I am not sure how an American physician would contrast a "regular" ward from the ICU. (Maybe I should have posted this in the linguistic discussion section rather than as an answer.)
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Anne Schulz
Local time: 01:03
| Grading comment Thanks, Anne. I am just going to call it a "regular" ward, that would be understandable to everyone.
Stephen
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Explanation:
it is a normal, non-intensive care ward (funny term if you come to think about it: the ICU as the hub of the (hospital) world)
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Note added at 13 hrs (2011-05-05 11:57:39 GMT)
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@Stephen: I basically wanted to explain the meaning and took the term "regular" from your own statement, because I am not sure how an American physician would contrast a "regular" ward from the ICU. (Maybe I should have posted this in the linguistic discussion section rather than as an answer.)
| Anne Schulz
Local time: 01:03
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| | Grading comment Thanks, Anne. I am just going to call it a "regular" ward, that would be understandable to everyone.
Stephen |
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