Abbreviations

An abbreviation that most often means emergency department; it can also mean erectile dysfunction.

Estimated date of delivery: the expected due date of a pregnancy.

Esophagogastroduodenoscopy: a test using a flexible scope through the mouth to look at the esophagus, stomach and start of the small intestine.

Enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay: a lab method that finds and measures antibodies or antigens using a color change.

Emergency Medical Treatment and Labor Act: a 1986 US law requiring emergency departments to screen and stabilize anyone who comes in.

The level of carbon dioxide at the very end of a breath out, normally 35 to 45 mm Hg, measured by capnography.

Environmental Protection Agency: the US agency that registers disinfectants; also eicosapentaenoic acid, an omega-3 fat.

An abbreviation with more than one meaning: emergency room, or extended-release when written after a drug name.

An abbreviation, symbol or way of writing a dose that has been misread and led to medication errors, as listed by ISMP.

The amount of blood a patient is judged to have lost during surgery, recorded in milliliters and reported at handoff.

A timing direction meaning once in each 60 minutes, abbreviated "qh" from the Latin quaque hora.