Portuguese Medical Records Translation
Portuguese medical records translation to English of a Brazilian prontuário médico, a laudo, an atestado, exam results and receitas, for a doctor in the US, an insurer, a disability or injury case, or a school. We translate SUS and private hospital records from every Brazilian state, and US records into Portuguese for treatment back in Brazil.
- Up to 250 words per page
- $25 per page
- Standard turnaround
- From 24 hours
- Certificate of accuracy
- Signed & stamped
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Written for Portuguese (Brazil) medical records records
Prontuário shorthand and Brazilian drug names
Brazilian records use their own document names, their own shorthand and a different drug list from the US. Each one changes how the English has to read.
Prontuário, laudo, atestado, relatório
The prontuário is the hospital chart. A SUS hospital or a Unimed or Amil clinic hands a copy over as a stack of notas de evolução, prescrições and exames. A laudo médico is a specialist's report, the paper a US disability lawyer or a school usually wants. An atestado médico is a short sick note giving the days off and, when the patient allows it, a CID-10 code. We name each in English by what it does, and keep the doctor's CRM number and state next to every signature, because a US reviewer checks who wrote it.
Shorthand a Brazilian doctor writes
Brazilian charts open with HD for the working diagnosis, HAS for hypertension, DM2 for type 2 diabetes, AVC for a stroke, IAM for a heart attack and DPOC for COPD. Vital signs are PA, FC, FR and SatO2, and Tax is the axillary temperature. Routes are VO by mouth, IM, SC and EV, where a US chart says IV. Dosing is written de 8/8h for every 8 hours, cp for a tablet, amp for an ampoule, SN for as needed and ACM for at the doctor's discretion. Every one of these is written out in English so a US clinician reads the note without a key.
Dipirona, CID-10 and the decimal comma
Brazilian prescriptions are full of dipirona, which is metamizole and is not sold in the US, so the translation keeps the name and adds what it is instead of swapping in a substitute. Paracetamol becomes acetaminophen. Controlled drugs come on a receita de controle especial in two copies, or on the blue receita B and the yellow receita A, and the translation names the color. Brazil codes diagnoses in CID-10, the same system as ICD-10, so the code stays and the description is translated. Lab results print 5,2 for 5.2, and the translation uses the decimal point.
Who is asking for your Portuguese (Brazil) medical records translation?
The translation is the same. What changes is whether the recipient wants anything added to it.
Doctors and hospitals
A new physician needs your diagnoses, medications and reports in English before the first visit. Each report is translated in full and certified, so it can go into your chart as it is.
Insurers
Health, travel and disability insurers ask for the medical report and the itemized bill in English, translated completely and certified, before they pay a claim for care received abroad.
ECFMG
ECFMG accepts a word-for-word translation on a translation service's letterhead, signed by the translator with a certification statement. Summaries and extracts are refused. Our certified translations follow that format.
Before you upload
Three things that save a day of back and forth on a Portuguese (Brazil) medical records.
Send the pages a doctor would read
The discharge letter, the current medication list and the reports it relies on cover most visits. A full hospital file can run to hundreds of pages, so start with those and add the rest if the recipient asks.
Letterhead, stamps and signatures count
The hospital header, the doctor's stamp and the registration number on a prescription identify who wrote the record. Scan each page whole, including forms and the back of any page with a stamp.
Tell us who will read it
A physician needs the clinical pages, an insurer the diagnosis and the itemized bill, ECFMG a word-for-word translation of the entire document. Say which in the order notes, with the patient's name as the passport spells it.
Details and pricing
What is included in a Portuguese (Brazil) medical records translation
One price per page covers the translation and its certification. A page is up to 250 words, and the quote tells you the page count before you pay.
Everything on the medical records is translated, including stamps, seals and handwritten notes. Tell us the English spelling you use for each name when you order.
Certified Translation
Word-for-word translation with a certificate of accuracy for official use.
$25
USD / page
up to 250 words per page
Included
- Signed & stamped certification of translation accuracy
- Certified by a professional translator
- Digital delivery via PDF
- Review and approve final translation
- 100% Guaranteed Acceptance
- Standard turnaround starting at 24 hours
Optional services
- Expedited turnaround
- Priority handling when your deadline is shorter than the standard turnaround.
- By deadline
- Notarization
- A notary public signs and stamps the certification statement.
- $20 per order
- Physical copy
- A wet-ink original of your translation, mailed by express courier.
- $35 per order
- Apostille
- Authenticates the notary’s signature and seal for use in Hague Convention countries.
- $180 per document
What the certificate of accuracy states
Your translation arrives with a Certification of Translation Accuracy issued by ImmiTranslate. It is the page the receiving organization checks first.
- The translation is complete and accurate.
- The document title and the language pair.
- The translator is competent in both languages.
- A signature and the ImmiTranslate certification stamp.
- Our American Translators Association corporate membership.
Our translation process
Our goal is to make the translation process as simple as possible for you. Our service is streamlined specifically for documents of this nature.
Portuguese (Brazil) Medical Records FAQ
Most questions about pricing and turnaround can be answered faster by requesting a quote.
- Can you translate my Brazilian exames and imaging reports for a US specialist?
- Yes. A hemograma, a lipid panel, a laudo de ressonância, an ultrassom or an ecocardiograma each come as a one- or two-page laudo signed by the lab or the radiologist, and that laudo is what the US doctor reads. The images themselves need no translation. Reference ranges on a Brazilian lab sheet are printed next to each result, and we carry them across so the doctor sees what the lab considered normal.
- I was hurt in Brazil and my US insurer wants the records. What do I send?
- The ficha de atendimento or boletim from the pronto-socorro or UPA where you were seen, the atestado with the days off, any laudo from a specialist, and the nota fiscal or recibo for what you paid, which lists the clinic's CNPJ. If the police were involved, the boletim de ocorrência too. Insurers want the receipts translated as well as the chart, so send everything in one order and the quote shows the page count before you pay.
- I am going back to Brazil for treatment. Can my US records go into Portuguese?
- Yes. People send a US discharge summary to continue treatment at a SUS hospital or through a plano de saúde, to the INSS for a perícia médica, or to a Brazilian court in an injury or custody case. The translator writes Brazilian Portuguese, so a US reader's blood pressure becomes pressão arterial and a discharge summary a sumário de alta, the terms a Brazilian doctor expects.
- How much does a certified translation cost?
- Certified translation is $25 per page, with a page counted as up to 250 words. Notarization, a mailed physical copy and an apostille are optional and priced separately.
- How long does a certified translation take?
- Standard turnaround starts at 24 hours and depends on the length and language of your documents. If you have a deadline, include it in your quote request.
Other Portuguese (Brazil) documents we translate
Medical records translation in other languages
Each of these pages is written for that language's medical records records.
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