Got any funny acronyms at your ER???

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Ok...

So I am a part of a committee putting together a "seminar" targeting New Grads, Recent Grads and students.

We are tentatively calling it "REAL Life in the ER".

We are planning it from a humorous perspective.

I have the task of ED "Definitions"

You know...

"DDK"=Dead Doesn't Know it

"Code Brown"=No explanation needed...I hope!

Got it??!!??

So if anyone has some funny ones...please post them so I can include them in my "lecture"

Thanks!

:rotfl:

Also, any funny "Nurse Calls"

Specializes in Nephrology, Cardiology, ER, ICU.

Normalizine - given IV it cures everything!

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Oh yeah. Had a doc who ordered Serum Porcelain Levels when a pt was a "crock" or FOS

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DBI = dirt bag index which is the patients number of teeth divided by number of tatoos (jailhouse and homemade tatoos get counted twice)

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Oh yeah. Had a doc who ordered Serum Porcelain Levels when a pt was a "crock" or FOS

LOL, that reminds me of an old one they used in the '70s, when patients who were weird/chronic complainers/hypochondriacs etc. were referred to as "turkeys--" so, the joke was, if this type of patient presents to ER, order STAT serum feather level...

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Anal glaucoma - can't see my a** coming to work today

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CID-STW = "came in dead, stayed that way" - s/p code diagnosis

status dramaticus = seen mostly in young friends/family members of the acute emergent hang nail case

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usually say things like "I don't know why I'm so breathless" or "I get terrible pain in my knees or hip when I try to walk.

also love the frequent flyers who arrive with abdo pain and nausea and the first thing they ask is what time does lunch come around

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Specializes in ICU.

MIF For X-rays showing large amounts of abdominal gas stands for Massive Internal Fart

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Ok, I work in a RURAL hospital, so you have to consider the types of pts we have out here. So, the few we have are:

PWTT - Poor White Trailer Trash

Jackie - Jack A$$

Norsaline - The infamous drug that will cure all drug seekers headaches the moment it is pushed (Normal Saline)

POS - Piece of S**T

CDCDSOB - Calm Down, Calm Down, Sons a *****es

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BOHICA- bend over here it comes again

Felepsy- patients and family members who continue to drop the "F" bomb

Incarceritis- patients who suddenly developed acute chest pain while on the way to jail. Also commonly called "jailitis" or FOS or "waste of time"

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RBS = real bad sick

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Specializes in ER, PICU.

My contribution is give 'em a little PTQ....pillow till quiet :rolleyes:

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