Why does stat mean immediately

Thread starter Yepok Start date Jun 26, Yepok Member France, French. Hello, I remember having heard this word from time to time in the TV series House MD , and judging from the context, it must mean quick or hurry.

I was wondering where it comes from? English-Ireland top end. Stat is a short form of the Latin word statim. Used on a clinical order or prescription it means immediately. See also Stat!!! Because bodily fluids and blood spilled on the shoe results in direct contact with skin and cause infection, or sharp objects may cause injury, nurses are not allowed to wear Crocs with holes in them.

Crocs are a popular shoe brand for doctors mainly because of how easy they are to clean and sterilise. Working in medicine exposes people to blood, urine and other fluids that can easily stain clothes and footwear.

Another reason why some doctors wear them is comfort. These rights are critical for nurses. Pharmacists, pharmacy technicians, and nurses expressed the need to reevaluate and standardize the stat medication process in order to achieve the hospital policy which states that medication orders written as stat should be administered to the patient within 30 min of the time that the order is written. The University of Toronto-affiliated study that yielded this stat compared pot-smoking and non-pot-smoking MS patients.

He was immediately appalled at his outburst, and by the pilot's startled glance, but the stat went off immediately. For seven weeks now he had lived with it intricately and intimately, as the case shoved everything else right off the news- stat. Both men turned abruptly as the stat -screen gave its warning blip. Mandleco strode for the tele- stat , then turned back and pointed a trembling finger at Beardsley.

The expression of shocked surprise was still on his face as the stat gun blast took him squarely in the chest. New Word List Word List. Save This Word! See synonyms for stat on Thesaurus. This is a folk etymology. Be particularly wary of etymologies involving acronyms, as they are often anachronistic. That sounds like a backronym — thursdaysgeek. Welcome to the site! For answers like this you are encouraged to link to references — New Alexandria.

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