Glossary entry (derived from question below)
French term or phrase:
départ ambulant
English translation:
ambulatory on discharge
French term
départ ambulant
Feb 16, 2023 17:45: Drmanu49 changed "Edited KOG entry" from "<a href="/profile/30393">STEVEN DEWITT's</a> old entry - "départ ambulant"" to ""ambulatory on discharge""
Proposed translations
ambulatory discharge or discharge as ambulatory patient
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de DH Tran · 2020 · Cité 5 fois — The ability to ambulate was associated with a greater likelihood of being discharged home in survivors of prolonged ICU stays who were .
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philgoddard
: I've left my answer in, as it has a few more references.
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Yes, thank you Phil.
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Carol Gullidge
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Thank you.
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Anastasia Kalantzi
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Thank you.
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Mpoma
: probably too North American, so should be identified as such
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Not at all but if this was the case it would still be the most widely used term worldwide.
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ambulant/ambulatory discharge
http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/ambulatory
Much recent scrutiny of the ambulatory discharge process has centered on these two factors.
http://journals.lww.com/anesthesia-analgesia/fulltext/1999/0...
Conscious and ambulant discharge in the company of a responsible adult is usually appropriate.
http://academic.oup.com/book/24356/chapter-abstract/18721761...
Or you could just say "left".
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Carol Gullidge
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Mpoma
: probably too North American, so should be identified as such. Your final link does not contain the term "ambulant" or "ambulatory"
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(a) Not North American at all; (b) It does, as you can see from the text above it, but I'm guessing it's behind a paywall.
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Josiane Lima
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Zorra Renard
: "ambulatory" just means that patients can walk, presumably unaided, though.
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ambulatory patient / patient is ambulatory
AMBULATORY | English meaning - Cambridge Dictionary
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— ambulatory | American Dictionary - relating or describing people being treated for an injury or illness who are able to walk, and, when treated in a hospital, usually not staying for the night:
Ambulatory patients Definition | Law Insider
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Ambulatory patients means those patients who are not dependent upon others for assistance to travel to safety in an emergency, including those patients who ...
Ambulatory or Walking Status in Health Care
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17 feb. 2022 — When a Patient Is Ambulatory
Healthcare professionals may refer to a patient as ambulatory. This means the patient is able to walk around. After surgery or medical treatment, a patient may be unable to walk unassisted. Once the patient is able to do so, he is noted to be ambulatory. A doctor may ask a nurse or therapist, "Is the patient ambulatory?"
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AMBULATORY | English meaning - Cambridge Dictionary
https://dictionary.cambridge.org › a...
— ambulatory | American Dictionary - relating to or describing people being treated for an injury or illness who are able to walk, and, when treated in a hospital, usually not staying for the night:
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Mpoma
: I think (with no expertise) that "outpatient" is generally preferred east of the Atlantic. Your Cambridge Dictionary link specifically says "American Dictionary".
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Zorra Renard
: This doesn't mean anything, other than that the patient is able to walk;
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outpatient discharge
That had been my first thought. Alas, I thought the 'outpatient' translation had been obvious, so never responded earlier, bit I do see 'ambulatory surgery' g/hits.
PS outpatient discharge means on the latter's own steam.
IATE: en outpatient centre COM fr centre de consultations externes COM centre de soins ambulants
Discharge of an outpatient surgical patient to home implies that the patient is clinically stable and capable, to some degree, of self-care.
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Zorra Renard
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AllegroTrans
: This seems correct and as asker says, the patient was "in and out"; sounds like an outpatient to me
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liz askew
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Discussion
Ambulatoire can mean outpatient, as in "clinique ambulatoire". This is probably where your confusion is coming from.
But I was just wondering whether the term "outpatient" might be of some relevance here. See Wikip ("Ambulatory care or outpatient care is medical care provided on an outpatient basis, including ...").
"Ambulatory" sounds rather Transatlantic to me, and all the supporting links in the current 3 answers seem to be linking to US sites. I am perfectly happy to believe that "ambulatory" is used by UK doctors hundreds of times a day and that it is merely my good fortune in not having been obliged to visit that many hospitals over recent years which explains why I find the term a tad "ER" on the face of it.
This page https://www.nhs.uk/nhs-services/hospitals/going-into-hospita... , for example, also suggests the NHS may possibly prefer "minimal discharge".
It's fine to come up with US-specific terminology, spelling, expressions, etc. when these are clearly identified as such. But, to my way of thinking, not desirable to pretend that US-specific stuff can surreptiously stand in for international English.