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Glossary of Slang Terms. If you know of any others,
please
let me know so that they can be added.
- Acute MI: Acute monetary insufficiency.
- Baby doll: Vaginal bleeder.
- Bag 'em: Put someone on a respirator.
- Banana bags: IV fluid with vitamins,
thiamine, and dextrose that is given to chronic
alcoholics, which looks yellow from the vitamins.
- Bat: BAT, blunt abdominal trauma.
- Bite: A surgical stitch. "Take a
bigger bite" means make the stitch longer.
- Black cloud: Bad luck that a medical
student or resident brings with him or her.
- Bleed them: Draw blood.
- Blown: Dilated (pupil).
- Blue bloater: Someone with COPD;
particularly someone with chronic bronchitis who has
trouble inhaling.
- Bought the farm: died.
- Bounce back: Someone who was discharged
who's readmitted.
- Buff 'em up: To hydrate a patient and
stabilize his or her electrolytes.
- Campers: Kids with diseases for which there
are special summer camps (cancer, diabetes).
- Cheech: Give someone a patient with a bad
problem.
- Circling the drain: A patient who has taken
a turn for the worse.
- City taxi: Abusers of paramedics and the
free ride to the hospital.
- CLD's: Controlled life-style doctors;
doctors, like ER docs, who do not give continuity of
care.
- Code Brown: A bed full of excrement.
- Crash and burn: A patient who is getting
worse and needs to go to the ICU.
- Crispy critter: A person burned to death.
- Crump: Go downhill, die.
- CYA medicine: Cover-your-a$$ medicine (do
extra tests and document everything), especially with
a litigious patient.
- Cystic: A kid with cystic fibrosis.
- D&D's: Death and doughnuts; another term
for the M&M conferences because you always talk about
patients who died and are served doughnuts.
- Dead shovel: Guy who has a heart attack
while shoveling snow.
- DFO'd: Fainted, done fell out.
- Dink: Fail to keep an appointment.
Dink stands for DNK - Did Not Keep.
- Donor cycles: Motorcycles (accident victims
make good organ donors).
- Down: Cardiac arrest (down time).
- Drop a tube: To put, for instance, a tube
down someone's nose and esophagus into their stomach.
- Dump: A bad, hard-to-dispose-of patient
sent by another doctor.
- ETU: Eternal care unit (morgue).
- Facinoma: A fascinating ER story.
- Fertile Myrtle: A woman who gets pregnant
repeatedly.
- Flapper: Skin pulled out.
- FLK: A funny-looking kid; a kid who comes
in who doesn't look quite right.
- Flower Sign:
When flowers appear at the bedside of a patient the
doctor can be fairly sure that there is family to take
care of them when they are discharged.
- FOS (Full of Stool): In need of an enema, seen on X ray.
- Gas 'em: Do an ABG.
- Get burned: Make a mistake.
- GGF: A workup of an old lady with a fever
(granny's got a fever).
- Glory ER: Exciting ER cases.
- Go down the tubes: Get sicker.
- GOK: God only knows.
- Gomer: GOMER, get out of my emergency room
- a patient you dread having.
- Goober: Tumor, for example, on a chest X
ray.
- Gork: A patient on the way out; a hopeless
case; brain dead.
- GSW: Gunshot wound.
- Hand them a Bible so they can study for the
final: About to die.
- HBD: Had been drinking.
- Hit: An admission.
- Hit hard: To get a lot of difficult
patients in one shift.
- Hurt me again: To get another train wreck
after just working up one.
- If you didn't chart it, it didn't happen:
Variant of CYA medicine.
- Incoming Scud: A train wreck coming by
ambulance to the hospital.
- Knife and Gun Club: An inner-city hospital
that gets a lot of knife and gun wounds.
- Larry Parker Syndrome: Someone who comes in
after an accident complaining of pain, but who is
really looking for an insurance settlement.
- Let's get out of Dodge: Let's finish the
case.
- LGFD: Looks good from doorway. A
patient who complains but looks fine.
- Liver rounds: Friday afternoon social event
for residents, attendings, and medical students where
alcoholic beverages are served.
- LOL: Little old lady.
- M&M's: Morbidity and mortality conferences
where the ER doctors, residents, med students,
pathologists, and other applicable specialists gather
to discuss past cases in which there was an error or
the patient did not do as well as expected.
Usually held once a week in the early morning;
residents have to present the cases and are fair game
for the audience of Monday morning quarterbacks.
- Members: The abbreviation of mental
retardation with cerebral palsy is MRCP, which also
stands for Member of the Royal College of Physicians.
- MUDPILES: Mnemonic device for anion gap:
M(ethanol), U(remia), D(iabetic ketoacidosis),
P(araidehyde), I(ron), L(actic acidosis), E(thanol),
S(alicylate starvation).
- Mutual of Sacrament: Medicare.
- No code or DNR (do not resuscitate):
No heroic measures.
- Old trout: A patient who is old, but
quick-witted.
- O sign: Mouth gaping open when unconscious.
- Perf: Perforate; to burst.
- PID shuffle: The walk of an obvious pelvic
inflammatory diseased patient. The patient is
young, female, holding abdomen, wide stance, hunched
over, with a pronounced shuffle.
- Pimp: Ask a medical student or resident
difficult questions.
- Pink puffer: Someone with emphysema who has
difficulty exhaling.
- Pit her: Give a pregnant woman pitocin to
induce labor.
- Preemie: A premature infant.
- Pronounce: Pronounce dead.
- Q sign: O sign plus tongue hanging out.
- Rainbow Draw: When
the phlebotomist cannot read the doctors blood draw
orders, so you take a full vile of every color tube
you have just to CYA.
- Road rash: Abrasion from a fall onto
concrete.
- Scoop and run: Grab you and go as fast as
they can.
- Scut work: Busy work - drawing blood,
filling out lab slips, etc.
- Seizer: A kid with epilepsy.
- Send for labs: Draw blood, fill out the
slip, and send the specimens out.
- Send him redline: Send him directly and
urgently.
- Sickler: A kid with sickle-cell
anemia.
- Slammed: Variant of "hit hard," only worse.
- S.O.B.: Shortness of Breath
- Soldiers: Kids with chronic GI
(gastrointestinal) diseases, like Crohn's disease.
- Spark 'em: Defibrillate a patient.
- Stat: Hurry up.
- Stool magnet: A resident who always seems
to get very sick, complicated patients.
- Tank 'em up: To give a patient who is
dehydrated a lot of fluid.
- They're going to box like a smelt: Going to
die.
- Torture me: A variant of "Hurt me again."
- Train wreck: A patient with multiple
problems.
- Treat and Street: (self explanatory).
- T.U.B.E.:
Totally Unnecessary Breast Exam.
Turf: Send the patient to another service,
such as transferring a patient on the medicine service
to surgery.
Underdosing: An overdose that doesn't kill
the patient.
Vitamin H: Haldol, a very powerful sedating
agent for combative people.
WADAO: Weak and dizzy all over.
Walking time bomb: Someone with a disease
that could be fatal at any moment, like an aortic
aneurysm.
Wallet biopsy: Transfer.
Wheezer: An asthmatic.
WNL: Within normal limits; however,
residents joke it means "we never looked."
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