congratulations! aao means you were "alert and oriented" when examined. the "x3" means "times 3 " which indicates you were alert and oriented to "person place and time. " we frequently use the aao designation when assessing a patient's mental status such as after a possible head injury. if you've ever had a health care professional ask you the questions "what is your name? " "do you know where you are? " or "what day is it? " then you were being screened using the aao technique. i hope this helps! it probably means "alert and oriented x 3". the "3" is time place and person. it means that 1. you know what time or date it is 2. you know where you are and 3. you know who you are. don't you hate when medical providers use abbreviations? it used to be worse. they used to use latin! aaox3 means that the person is a=alert a=awake o=oriented x3= to place (you know where you are) person (you know who you are) time (you know what date it is or day whatever the health care provider asks you) in ems we use aaox4 which also adds event (you know what happened) for instance if you were in a mov (motor vehicle accident) do you know how it happen were you awake at all times or did you blacked out and don't remember what happen. that usually can mean that the person sustained some trauma to the head or the person could of passed out and that caused the accident. anyways hope this helped.
an indian internist used the letters aaox3 and then went on to say what aao stands for. i couldn't understand an idea? . he read from a chart: cvs or cns aaox3