Today's abbreviation is one of the hardest ones to recognize when dealing with medical records. This is because like many of the difficult abbreviations it means something else outside of the medical records and it looks strange in the medical record.
Without further ado:
AKA - above the knee amputation.
It is a surgical procedure or an incident as well as a condition after the fact. It normally is NOT something that people miss about clients, but sometimes they do, and having a nurse examine the medical record can note things like the patient coming back from a surgical procedure and the staff documenting a pulse in a non- existent leg.
Examples
Pt. with hx of AKA
Pt required AKA of left leg after traumatic injury.
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