Medical abbreviations we would like to see!!

[mstovall]

HUA-pronounced "who-uh" Head Up Ass

PIE-Phone In Ear

DAS-Drunk As Shhhhhugar

all referring to causes of accidents.

[a918emt]

a few co workers made this up one night...

SAMPLE

Summons Ambulance My Prescription Lapsed Early

[Don1977]

DFO-Done Fell Out

SPS-stupid parent syndrome

not an abbreviation but when you get a cardiac arrest or a DOA call in and say "patient has ceased to breath"

or when someone talks about a DOA ask them "they still dead"? gets them thinking for a minute......

[firedoc5]

"AWTH" - Accident Waiting To Happen

[Kaisu]

TSTL - too stupid to live

[Niftymedi911]

GYD= Graveyard Dead

[emtff376]

LOLLOL or LOLx2 = Little Old Lady Lying On Linoeum

FDGB = Fall Down, Go Boom

PUHA = Pick Up, Haul Ass

DNR = Doesn't Need a Rig

FDSTW = Found Dead, Stayed That Way

Some of my favs... I have lots.

J

[afd1307]

Not medical, but my favorite by far...

CHAOS--- Chief Has Arrived On Scene

[itku2er]

APTFRAN Apply Pillow To Face, Repeat As Necessary (for annoying patient)

SWAG Scientific, wild-A** Guess.

FOS Full Of ... Stool

[firedoc5]

SCS- Should Commit Suicide

DTAR- Dumber Than A Rock