Favorite EM Mnemonic
Started by corpsmanUP
Slightly different order, but: "Some Lovers Try Positions That They Can't Handle"
Pretty funny when the 4th year anatomy elective students were helping us out in lab and none of them could remember the bones themselves, but all knew the mnemonic.
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deleted87716
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1.SPAK- status post ass-kicking
2.PPP- piss-poor protoplasm
Steve
2.PPP- piss-poor protoplasm
Steve
ADASTW- Arrived dead and stayed that way
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deleted109597
DFO
Done Fell Out.
Done Fell Out.
SOB...well now phased out of the hospital back home. Pt or pt's family heard the abbreviation when the paramedics were reporting in and thought they were calling them sons of...well you know. Now the paramedics are supposed to use SOA (short of air) so that they don't offend the pts that know the truth.
That's sort of like using "black" in field triage. A fireman told me a story one time about ariving at a multiple-victim scene that happened to involve African-Americans. Apparently, finding an obviously dead AA man and skipping over him while saying "this one is black" is not a good way to please a crowd.
DFOA=Done Fell Out AGAIN
DRT/ART=Dead Right There/Approaching Room Temperature
AFWAP=Another Female With Abdominal Pain
VAD=Vitamin A(ativan) Deficiency
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deleted87716
Why bother changing the acronym? "Dyspneic" has the same number of syllables as either, and is a lot easier to use conversationally.
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GOMER - Get Outta My ER
STD - Spinning the Drain (also CTD, Circling the Drain)
GYD - Grave Yard Dead
STD - Spinning the Drain (also CTD, Circling the Drain)
GYD - Grave Yard Dead
How about "Triple I" chest pain. (Aiiii Aiiii Aiiii). Typically an early 20's-30's Hispanic female....
We refer to that as "Aye Tach" or AT. In many cases it's terminal.
this one isn't EM specific, but I'm studying and just ran across it in first aid:
Drugs causing gynecomastia: Spironoloctone, Digitalis, Cimetidine, Alcohol use, Ketoconazole
-Some Drugs Create Awesome Knockers
Drugs causing gynecomastia: Spironoloctone, Digitalis, Cimetidine, Alcohol use, Ketoconazole
-Some Drugs Create Awesome Knockers
Got this one from Ken Butler at Univ of MD (regional airway expert):
before intubating, try to SOAP ME:
Suction
Oxygen
Airway Equipment
Pharmaceuticals
Monitoring/Equipment
Q
before intubating, try to SOAP ME:
Suction
Oxygen
Airway Equipment
Pharmaceuticals
Monitoring/Equipment
Q
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Similar to the dreaded tachylodya with an occasional ohhepmejesus.
oh lordy oh lordy oh lordy oh hep me jesus oh lordy oh lordy oh lordy
Take care,
Jeff
Well I suppose I should have clarified that the mnemonics be useful for everyday ED life. But I did enjoy reading these!
There are actually 4 f's - fat female fertile and forty
A path professor of mine would actually make it the 7 f's - adding "flatulant floating feces" to the 4 f's already mentioned.
i read somewhere on this board before about "status hispanicus". i thought it was pretty funny.
--your friendly neighborhood ED consulting caveman
Also known as "Hispanic Panic" by a former Cuban resident I worked with.
Or "Cuban conniptions" to quote a Cuban pulmonologist I used to work with.....
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I've also alternatively heard a fifth "f"- fried, in reference to the fact that in some patients greasy foods trigger gallbladder attacks.
I was also taught six "f's" that can cause distention of the abdomen: fluid, flatulence, fat, feces, fibroid (tumor), fetus
a couple for sycope...
CHESS from the san fran rules for risk stratifying/admitting sycope pts
CHF
Hb < 30
EKG abn
SBP < 90
SOB
also, CRAPS for "bad" causes of syncope
Cardiac structural defects (AS, HOCM)
Rupture (aorta, viscus, ectopic)
Arrythmia
PE
SAH
CHESS from the san fran rules for risk stratifying/admitting sycope pts
CHF
Hb < 30
EKG abn
SBP < 90
SOB
also, CRAPS for "bad" causes of syncope
Cardiac structural defects (AS, HOCM)
Rupture (aorta, viscus, ectopic)
Arrythmia
PE
SAH
How about the 6T risk factors for snakebites...
Toothless, Testosterone, Tank Top, pickup Truck, Tatooed, inToxicated
if you can't remember all of that, a low tooth to tatoo ratio is a pretty good predictor too....
Toothless, Testosterone, Tank Top, pickup Truck, Tatooed, inToxicated
if you can't remember all of that, a low tooth to tatoo ratio is a pretty good predictor too....
I like that BARF one. I've had so many paranoid attendings freak out when a radiologist reads a scan as normal but adds: "Cannot rule out xxx life-threatening condition xxx, clinical correlation is recommended".
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deleted109597
I really wish I could dictate in my report "patient has _______ physical finding, cannot rule out _______, radiological correlation is recommended."
I read through the thread twice and I can't see where anyone has mentioned:
SOCMMOB
As in, I was "Standing On the Corner Minding My Own Business" when these two dudes jumped me and put a lone star beer bottle up my rear end.
-Mike
SOCMMOB
As in, I was "Standing On the Corner Minding My Own Business" when these two dudes jumped me and put a lone star beer bottle up my rear end.
-Mike
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I wonder what the sensitivity this has for myocardial ischemia. I smell a study! (OK, not really.)
Do you TTJ these patients? (Transfer To Jesus)
See, why couldn't we have had this one? That would have made things a lot simpler, but OH NO, we had to be politically correct and use "VAL PLIT HIM" (what the heck does THAT stand for? nothing, I'll tell you, NOTHING)
!. I had my first "triple i/ hispanic panic" pt not but a couple weeks ago. screaming because of "chest pain," but couldn't find anything wrong. it sticks out 'cause the ED was pretty quiet and this pt showed up and screamed for 20 minutes or so.
anyway, this one's not a pneumonic. it's more of a poem. but it's on my test in a couple hours, so here it is.
Signs/Sx of Anti-Ach Toxicity:
dry as a bone,
red as a beet,
blind as a bat,
hot as a hare,
mad as a hatter,
bowel and bladder lose their tone,
and the heart goes on alone.
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deleted77919
Does this really come up in the emergency setting very often? Ok, I concede there are those "I ate 18 viagra and have had an erection lasting 12 hours" patients.
FOS - "Full of ****"
This one gets used a lot, especially with the malingerers in the psych unit 🙄
This one gets used a lot, especially with the malingerers in the psych unit 🙄
Not to mention all the elderly patients for whom this is a real complaint.
Take care,
Jeff
Venous Penis (good way to remember where the femoral vein is next to the artery)
SITA (Shot in the ass)
PITA (pain in the ass)
(SITA=PITA)
SITA (Shot in the ass)
PITA (pain in the ass)
(SITA=PITA)
I use "Dick VAN" (****) - for those who know who he is.
I came across this thread in a random google search, and I felt like it deserved a bump....though I could have used this post above earlier! Btw....I added Risperdal.
-t
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