Glossary entry

Spanish term or phrase:

DES

English translation:

Breakfast (DESayuno)

Added to glossary by Joseph Tein
May 15, 2013 02:19
11 yrs ago
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Spanish term

DES

Spanish to English Medical Medical (general) medication orders - frequency of administration
This abbreviation appears on a page listing a hospital patient's medications: date and time ordered, name of the drug, dose, and when it is to be administered ... for example, every 8 hours, every 12 hours, daily, every 72 hours, as needed, etc. Sometimes the orders specify mealtimes such as comida (lunch) and cena.

The abbreviation "DES" appears in the same column as these every 8 hours, every 12 hours, lunchtime, as-needed, etc. instructions. It goes with the medications Adalat Oros, Duphalac, and Inspra. I would have thought that DES is just an abbreviation for Desayuno, but we also have the abbreviation DNO elsewhere in this column (such as for Lyrica 75 mg: DNO, CDA, CENA), which seems more likely to mean Desayuno.

What does DES stand for here?

Thanks again for your help.
Proposed translations (English)
4 +4 BREAKFAST

Discussion

Joseph Tein (asker) May 15, 2013:
medication doses Here's how the entries read:

ADALAT 30 mg COM ["comprimidos" I think] - OR - [I think "oral"] - 1- [once a day] - DES

DUPHALAC 10 SOBRES - OR - 1 - DES

INSPRA 25 MG COMP - OR - 1 - DES

So it looks like these are all once-a-day oral doses of the three different medications.

(I would have expected PO for the oral administration, but I think OR probably means the same thing. The other administration routes listed are SC [subcutaneous], IV, and PER [percutaneous] ... they all look like English acronyms.)
lorenab23 May 15, 2013:
Joseph Can you provide the dosis exactly as it appears for each drug just like you did for Lyrica?
lorenab23 May 15, 2013:
Could it be dosis escalonada?
Joseph Tein (asker) May 15, 2013:
Thanks for the idea! And this file does have some mistakes in other sections ... but this DES shows up three times on the page. Again, some of the other indications are A LA NOCHE, COMIDA, CADA 8 HORAS, SI PRECISA, CADA 72 HORAS, DNO/CDA/CENA ... etc. -- so it has to be saying when the medications are given to the patient.
Giovanni Rengifo May 15, 2013:
AN IDEA I'm just throwing this as a guess to get the ball rolling. This might be a typo for "Dex" (dextrose, glucose test, or something like that). It seems to me that poor spelling is not an uncommon occurrence on these kinds of reports.

Proposed translations

+4
4 hrs
Selected

BREAKFAST

I think you're complicating life unnecessarily, Joseph. IMO, DES means desayuno here, even if you've got DNO elsewhere.
Note from asker:
Thanks, Emma. I guess I expect everybody to be as compulsively precise as I am!
Peer comment(s):

agree liz askew : Indeed - this is how I see it
1 hr
Thanks, Liz
agree Rachel Fell
2 hrs
Thanks, Rachel
agree David Brown : Yes, I agree, its breakfast. But abbreviations is one of the biggest headaches we have
9 hrs
Thanks, David
agree Zilin Cui : desayuno~~~ breakfast
12 hrs
Thanks Mafalda
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