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HAVING WORKED AT A LEVEL 1 TRAUMA CENTER FOR YEARS, I RECENTLY CHANGED HOSPITALS TO A COMMUNITY ER. THE LINGO THAT WE USED AT THE TRAUMA CENTER DIFFERED GREATLY FROM MY NEW HOSPITAL. I AM INTERESTED IN HEARING LINGO FROM AROUND THE GLOBE.:rolleyes:

SOME EXAMPLES:

LOL=LITTLE OLD LADY

MIMI=LITTLE OLD LADY

DFO=DONE FELL OUT (SYNCOPE)

AND MY MANAGER'S FAVOURITE ONE:

CCFCCP= COO COO FOR CO CO PUFFS

:eek:

Specializes in Cath Lab, OR, CPHN/SN, ER.

In nursing school, but work as an emt...

We have DFOIC-We get the call, 1100 Sunday, Done Fell Out In Church.

DRT- Dead Right There

Use the code brown in nursing school, just not around the instructors. :D

I like the ECU one...except no one here would get it, b/c we have East Carolina University in town (Also ECU)

Celestial discharge...

I'm going to print these out and put it up at the rescue squad! -A

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FTD fixin to die

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"Incarcaphobia" for the patient who'd rather wait in the ED (by ambulance, of course) instead of the cozy holding cell where she was being held FOR MURDER.

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Specializes in FNP, Peds, Epilepsy, Mgt., Occ. Ed.

Positive chart sign: the chart's so big you strain something carrying it; usually means you can count on hypochondria, malingering, or some other similar problem.

I live in Texas. I too understand the Hysterical Hispanic Female/Status Hispanicus one, too. A cop I knew in a small town called it a Hispanic Heart Attack.

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I like to use the term PDSD...Pre-Detention Stress Disorder!

Oh, Mr. Police Officer, my chest hurts, can you take me to the emergency room, before we go through the whole booking thing...please...it really hurts...

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we use drt- dead right there

or rfd really-f**** dead

or (most popular in our er)- FN f***** nuts:D (respectfully, of course.)

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Specializes in ER!.

OK, I did live in New Mexico for 7 years, but I am from Tennessee and have no idea what the Hysterical Hispanic stuff is all about. Can someone please explain that to me? In return, I offer the following information on "done fell out".

This is a tried, true, and no-questions-asked accepted diagnosis in the South. It is an equal-opportunity diagnosis, with no regard to age, race, or religion, but my personal experience has provided me primarily with rural whites suddenly overcome with the Spirit at all-day revivals, most of which take place in hell-hot temperatures with 98-99% humidity thrown in to weed out the wusses. I've never seen one younger than mid-30-ish, but anyone older than that is fair game.

I LOVE the "intubating junior"! What a classic!

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"Chrome induced ischemia "- when someone gets handcuffed/arrested and they start having chest pain

We give suspiciously unconscious patients "vit A" (ammonia) - one in each nostril works MIRACLES!!

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Heard the MD tonight order Dopamine as "no hopeamine"

(I guess he didnt want to "leave em dead" with levophed)

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Specializes in Medical-Surgical.

DOA = dead on arrival

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I like the "no hope-amine"; I can't tell you how many times I've felt the same way.

Leave-'em-dead levophed? :D

Where can I get a "no pressors" tattoo for my forehead?

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Specializes in 5 yrs OR, ASU Pre-Op 2 yr. ER.

JPS--Just plain stupid (this was coined after a 34 y M tried to ski off of his roof, and no traces of any drugs or alcohol was found in his system)

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