Joan Berglund (asker) Apr 13, 2012:

past history of cardiac arrest sounds much better than my idea, thanks.

Rowena Fuller (X) Apr 13, 2012:

mort subite Been there, got the tee-shirt! It means sudden cardiac arrest, which technically means being temporarily dead, though you can be brought back using electric shock apparatus. Not a medical translator, but I do know this is correct :-)

SJLD Apr 13, 2012:

Example in English (very North American):
http://meded.ucsd.edu/clinicalmed/oral.htm

Past Surgical History: Any prior surgeries (along with the year in which they occurred) are noted.

"Past surgical history is remarkable for:

Status Post Cholycystectomy 1990
Status Post Appendectomy 1985
Status Post open repair and internal fixation of left femur fracture, 1983"

SJLD Apr 13, 2012:

status post past history of cardiac arrest at 38 years - SP sometimes used to mean past history of. Obviously if he's alive, it was not "mort subite" but a near miss!
Défibrillateur - this could mean he was resusced by defibrillation or has an ICD (implantable cardioverter defibrillator).

Aniele Apr 13, 2012:

"s/p " could refer to "sapeur pompier" which is a firefighter.

Joan Berglund (asker) Apr 12, 2012:

I actually found two references, and one does refer to implanting a defibrillator, which might be what my sentence is saying. http://volusia.org/ems/MAB07-20-04.pdf
Still, two is not very many references.

liz askew Apr 12, 2012:

I'd look into this in more detail though. p.s. I found nothing for "status post sudden cardiac death"..:) Good night.

liz askew Apr 12, 2012:

www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22302278
by J Kovach - 2012 - Related articles
3 Feb 2012 – Automated External Defibrillators and Secondary Prevention of Sudden Cardiac Death Among Children and Adolescents. Kovach J, Berger S.

Joan Berglund (asker) Apr 12, 2012:

ok, thanks Liz.

liz askew Apr 12, 2012:

secondary prevention?
Good luck, signing off now.

liz askew Apr 12, 2012:

see pages 26> re s/p

liz askew Apr 12, 2012:

here "mort subite" = sudden cardiac death
https://docs.google.com/viewer?a=v&q=cache:ZHOE3RPhYoMJ:www....

Joan Berglund (asker) Apr 12, 2012:

sorry, should be "subite"