what is status post meaning
Location: New York, NY. Status: Attending Physician. status post is used to designate when someone has had a significant procedure/event happen. if some guy comes in with chest pain, you want to know if he's had a coronary artery bypass graft, or has had a heart attack before. so you'd say something like:
Quick Answer. The term status post-cholecystectomy refers to the patient's state after a surgery to remove the gallbladder, a cholecystectomy, which can be an open surgery or a laparoscopic procedure, according to Johns Hopkins Medicine. After the surgery, a patient's vital signs, such as blood pressure and pulse, are monitored in a recovery room.