Unacceptable Terms for Log Entries

[itssharleen]

Hey ladies & gents,

I'm not an EMS/EMT, but a friend sent me this as a laugh, so I thought I'd join here and pass it on.

Have a good one!

Sharleen

:wink:

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To: All EMS Personnel From: Chief of Operations

Subject: Proper Narrative Descriptions

It has come to our attention from several emergency rooms that many EMS narratives have taken a decidedly creative direction lately. Effective immediately, all members are to refrain from using slang and abbreviations to describe patients, such as the following.

1) Cardiac patients should not be referred to as suffering from MUH (messed up heart), PBS (pretty bad shape), PCL (pre-code looking) or HIBGIA (had it before, got it again).

2) Stroke patients are NOT "Charlie Carrots." Nor are rescuers to use CCFCCP(Coo Coo for Cocoa Puffs) to describe their mental state.

3) Trauma patients are not CATS (cut all to shit), FDGB (fall down, go boom), TBC (total body crunch) or "hamburger helper." Similarly, descriptions of a car crash do not have to include phrases like "negative vehicle to vehicle interface" or "terminal deceleration syndrome."

4) HAZMAT teams are highly trained professionals, not "glow worms."

5) Persons with altered mental states as a result of drug use are not considered "pharmaceutically gifted."

6) Gunshot wounds to the head are not "trans-occipital implants."

7) The homeless are not "urban outdoorsmen," nor is endotracheal intubation referred to as a "PVC Challenge."

8 ) And finally, do not refer to recently deceased persons as being "paws up," ART (assuming room temperature), CC (Cancel Christmas), CTD (circling the drain), DRT (dead right there) or NLPR (no long playing records).

I know you will all join me in respecting the cultural diversity of our patients to include their medical orientations in creating proper narratives and log entries.

[R8DR_EMT]

:headbang: Guilty as charged!

[dreid72]

My favourite was always FUBAR BUNDY

F****D Up Beyone All Recognition, but Unforutnately Not Dead Yet

[chbare]

We have a rather flamboyant ER doc that uses some interesting terminology.

Patient with multiple medical problems- "TBF": Total Body Failure.

Ready for discharge- "LG": Long Gone.

Discharge instructions for viral syndrome: "Go home and rest, lots of fluids, and grandma's chicken noodle soup."

It's just a virus (cold/uri): "Billy Ray Virus."

Take care,

chbare.

[medik8]

:roll: Hmmmm....I'm not saying anything.....

xoxo

8

[Scaramedic]

Dead as a stick.

Simple and straight forward.

Peace,

Marty

:thumbleft:

[JakeEMTP]

My personal favorite is FTD for deceased pt's. As in call the florist. I don't use it, but I have heard it several times and thought it funny, in a twisted sort of way. :oops:

[Ghettomedic351]

My personal favorite is FTD for deceased pt's. As in call the florist. I don't use it, but I have heard it several times and thought it funny, in a twisted sort of way. :oops:

FTD as I have always heard it stands for ....Fixing To Die.....And then there is always ABC...Ambulate Before Cot, WOJ .....Wating On Jesus....All are good, especially some of the above mentioned.

[JakeEMTP]

FTD as I have always heard it stands for ....Fixing To Die.....And then there is always ABC...Ambulate Before Cot, WOJ .....Wating On Jesus....All are good, especially some of the above mentioned.

Yeah, that too.

[chbare]

CD: celestial discharge.

Take care,

chbare.