Sunday, April 12, 2009

EMS: Medical Terminology

Some useful abbreviations and terms they didn't teach us in class...

Acute Lead Poisoning: a gunshot wound 

Acute Lead Poisoning, Air-conditioned: multiple gunshot wounds

ADASTW: arrived dead and stayed that way

AGA: acute gravity attack (aka falling over)

APD: acute prozac deficiency (depression)

APTFRAN: Apply pillow to face, repeat as necessary

ALS: absolute loss of sanity (aka bat shit crazy)

ART/DRT: approaching room temperature/dead right there

ATFO: asked to fuck off

Banana: patient with jaundice

Bottle Return: removing a bottle lodged in the anal canal

BS: a call on someone with an overactive imagination

BVA: breathing valuable air

Chrome Induced Ischemia: a patient who develops inexplicable chest pains when handcuffed 
and arrested. 

Cockroach Factor: a patient's ability to survive trauma or serious treatment in inversely 
proportionate to his contribution to society.

Cranial Rectosis: a shit head

CTD: circling the drain

CCFCCP: Cuckoo for Coco Puffs (bat shit crazy)

Discharged Downstairs: transfered to morgue

Double-O Doc: As in OO-7, as in a doctor with a license to kill. A terrible doctor. 

DMFNFTL: dumb mother fucker not fit to live

DTPL: discharge to parking lot

Incarceritis: acute onset illness of variable nature, occurring 72-48 hours before the patient is 
going to jail. 

FDGB: fall down, go boom

FDSTW: found dead, stayed that way

FOS: full of shit, see BS

FFFF: fat fertile female fourty

FUBAR: fucked up beyond all repair, fucked up beyond all recognition

GOMER: get out of my emergency room

GPO: good for parts only (terminal case)

HONDA: hispanic obese non-insulin dependent with asthma

LOFD: looks OK from door

MFC: measure for coffin

Seeker: people who use ambulances the some people use taxis and hospitals as their own person on-call pharmacy, usually a fibromyaleur, chronic migrane sufferer, tooth-acher, or back-painer; claims to be deathly allergic to all non-narcotic pain medicines, and sometimes even specific doeses (as in, I'm allergic to the 5/325 percocets, I can only take the 10/325's). 

SITA: shot in the ass

SPAK: status post ass-kicking

SOTCMMOB: standing on the corner minding my own business, as in "I was just SOTCMMOB 
when these two dudes jumped me and put a lone star beer bottle up my rear end, and that's 
how it got there."

Status Hispanicus: (aka Hispanic Panic, Cuban Conniptions) A condition common in hispanic females of all ages, and less commonly in younger hispanic males. Traditionally occurs in the puerto rican, dominican and cuban populations, less commonly among the mexican. A term occasionally used by other hispanics. Refers to condition secondary to an severe emotional shock, resulting in either a total catatonic state or hysterics involving "Eye yieye yieye yieye yieye!". 

TTJ: transfer to jesus

TTTTTT: (aka 6T, the 6 risk factors for snake bites) toothless, testosterone, tank top, pickup 
truck, tattooed, intoxicated*

VAD: vitamin A(ntivan) deficiency 

VOMIT: victim of medical imaging technology

*if you cannot remember all 6 't' risk factors for snake bite, another good predictor is a low tooth-to-tattoo ratio.

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