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NPO stands for Nothing Per Orem which means nothing by mouth. Doctors use this on orders when they do not want the patient to take in any type of food or liquid by mouth. For instance, when a patient is getting ready for a surgery, they are ordered for NPO.
Medically NPO stands for Non Per OS or Nothing Per Orem. It means nothing by mouth. A patient is ordered this for various reasons.
Nothing by mouth is NPO, which is Latin meaning Nil Per Os.
alteration in body nutrition: less than body requirement related to required NPO status
what test? Depends on the test, but usually b4 being put to sleep every doctor wants pt npo for precaution of aspiration !
An x-ray record of the spinal cord is called myelogram or myelography.
NPO stands for Nothing Per Orem which means nothing by mouth. Doctors use this on orders when they do not want the patient to take in any type of food or liquid by mouth. For instance, when a patient is getting ready for a surgery, they are ordered for NPO.
this is to prevent aspiration of gastric contents, which is rare 1/3000, while under anesthesia, but new guidelines (well new as of 1999) are more laxed, no food for 6 hrs and no clear liquids for 2 hrs prior to surgery.
myelogram, but being replaced by CT scan and MRI's
eletromyogram; myelogram