Signs
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docB said:
I don't know this one - what is it?
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lolnad=little old lady in no apparent distress
pb3= pine box by bedside
tfte= too fat to evaluate
pb3= pine box by bedside
tfte= too fat to evaluate
docB said:
please define the above for those that dont know
OK OK, just single me out! It was me, I didn't know what a Throckmorton sign was! And to think I actually love eponyms and I'm usually the one to remember them all!docB said:
As if that's not bad enough, I have to admit that I have no clue what BBB2H and BBB2B are.
Maybe my past four years of medical school and 11 years of working EMS taught me nothing. 🙁
(Redemption note: I do know what the others are!)
O sign - gorked patient with mouth open (the "O")
Q sign - gorked patient with mouth open and tongue hanging out (the "Q") - a/k/a the "dotted O"
Supratentorial - crazy/insane
Code Brown - bowel movement - a/k/a "the deuce", '10-200'
DFO - "done fell out"; related to the DFOIC - "done fell out in church"
BBB2H and BBB2B - I got no idea
PID shuffle - the way a patient with PID walks - this minimizes cervical motion tenderness, since this moves the cervix minimally; once you see it, you won't miss it.
FDGB - fell down, go boom
Q sign - gorked patient with mouth open and tongue hanging out (the "Q") - a/k/a the "dotted O"
Supratentorial - crazy/insane
Code Brown - bowel movement - a/k/a "the deuce", '10-200'
DFO - "done fell out"; related to the DFOIC - "done fell out in church"
BBB2H and BBB2B - I got no idea
PID shuffle - the way a patient with PID walks - this minimizes cervical motion tenderness, since this moves the cervix minimally; once you see it, you won't miss it.
FDGB - fell down, go boom
throckmorten sign is the radiographic finding associated with pelvic films in males where the penis points to the side of the lesion.
i haven't heard the BBB2H or BBB2B, either.
i'll throw this one in from experience though. "polyringia"-- if a patient has more than 3 rings per hand, they will have a comorbid psychiatric Axis II disorder. 😎
i haven't heard the BBB2H or BBB2B, either.
i'll throw this one in from experience though. "polyringia"-- if a patient has more than 3 rings per hand, they will have a comorbid psychiatric Axis II disorder. 😎
Base Ball Bat to Head and Base Ball Bat to Belly. Often seen together in the same patient.
Microdeckia- Pt not playing with a full deck.
Life saving penile intubation- The foley that the trauma team wants in ASAP (remember in ATLS it's AFBCD).
BRBPR- Bright red blood per rectum
Microdeckia- Pt not playing with a full deck.
Life saving penile intubation- The foley that the trauma team wants in ASAP (remember in ATLS it's AFBCD).
BRBPR- Bright red blood per rectum
docB said:
You know, this one is ABSOLUTELY RIGHT - in rads conference last week, they were talking about a trauma where the chief went batsh*t wanting that Foley in YESTERDAY. (This was in a woman, though).
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One that a medic buddy of mine liked a lot for non-transportable cases:
DRT = "Dead Right There"
STFUnGTFO = "Shut The Fsck Up and Get The Fsck Out"
TSTL = "Too Stupid To Live" for Darwin Award candidates, something I always thought should have been included in the DSM-IV.
DRT = "Dead Right There"
STFUnGTFO = "Shut The Fsck Up and Get The Fsck Out"
TSTL = "Too Stupid To Live" for Darwin Award candidates, something I always thought should have been included in the DSM-IV.
Oh, "DRT" reminded me of:
CTD - "circling the drain"
CTD - "circling the drain"
YOYOMF = You're On Your Own My Friend (of course other MF phrases can be substituted for My Friend)
WATBC = Wacky and Tachy by Cracky - Never heard that! Too cool. I got three of these in my ED tonight. One woman comes in with the CC: I've been doing meth for a week and I feel all hyper.
ME (in a perfect world): Sounds like you got your money's worth. Get the hell out of my ER.
ME (in reality): Well lets work your dumb ass up so it'll be harder for you to sue me for the MI you'll eventually give yourself.
WATBC = Wacky and Tachy by Cracky - Never heard that! Too cool. I got three of these in my ED tonight. One woman comes in with the CC: I've been doing meth for a week and I feel all hyper.
ME (in a perfect world): Sounds like you got your money's worth. Get the hell out of my ER.
ME (in reality): Well lets work your dumb ass up so it'll be harder for you to sue me for the MI you'll eventually give yourself.
HLF: Hysterical Latin Female
JFN: Just F*cking Nuts
Q, DO
JFN: Just F*cking Nuts
Q, DO
PPP = Piss Poor Protoplasm
WPC = worthless piece of crap
TTRE = Tattoo-to-tooth ratio equal
RHPAW = Rode hard put away wet (my favorite nursing description for those 24 yr old girls that look 40with her 6 kids by bedside)
OBTO = On Back Too Often (how those girls got that way) Also, a great answer to the age old questions--Happies??? how did I catch them?
OU = Ohio Unit--1 Ohio Unit equals roughly 150 pounds. Patients greater than 3 OU are TFTE.
WPC = worthless piece of crap
TTRE = Tattoo-to-tooth ratio equal
RHPAW = Rode hard put away wet (my favorite nursing description for those 24 yr old girls that look 40with her 6 kids by bedside)
OBTO = On Back Too Often (how those girls got that way) Also, a great answer to the age old questions--Happies??? how did I catch them?
OU = Ohio Unit--1 Ohio Unit equals roughly 150 pounds. Patients greater than 3 OU are TFTE.
Forgot one of the basics: FLK = Funny Looking Kid
Or the popular as in the previous post:
Positive Tattoo to Tooth Ratio: The more tattoos they have and the fewer teeth they have, the more likely they will survive a major trauma.
My favorite on the wards:
LGFD = Looks good from door (written by attending)
LGFDWWP = as above plus "while walking past"
Or the popular as in the previous post:
Positive Tattoo to Tooth Ratio: The more tattoos they have and the fewer teeth they have, the more likely they will survive a major trauma.
My favorite on the wards:
LGFD = Looks good from door (written by attending)
LGFDWWP = as above plus "while walking past"
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wing- for my money: ht <6 ft and > 2 o.u.= tfte
there is also something about wt/arm length ratio. the jist is above a certain wt you can't wipe yourself because your arms are too short
there is also something about wt/arm length ratio. the jist is above a certain wt you can't wipe yourself because your arms are too short
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Apollyon said:
I much prefer STD - Spinnin' the Drain 🙂
FOS or TERDOMA- full of sh**(on abdomenal X-ray)
Somebody posted a "status hispanicus" on one of these things awhile ago. I laughed hard.
When I first read that word I thought it was going to be about the patient that doesn't put their Razr on vibrate so at mutliple times during the interview you get to hear "Buy You a Drank" or whatever the latest ****ty overplayed hip-hop song du jour happens to be.
Money ain't a thing, Amory.
TMD = "todo me duele"
OTD = "out the door"
OTD = "out the door"
Horrendioma= a case that's gonna be a PITA, often due to the TFTE, TTR, and of course my fave, the "45" diagnosis.
45= one chromosome short of a fully functioning person's 46.
45= one chromosome short of a fully functioning person's 46.
I learned a different one for HONDA:
Hypertensive, Obese, Nicotine dependent, Diabetic Asthmatic
Hypertensive, Obese, Nicotine dependent, Diabetic Asthmatic
Holy Crap! It lives. Return of the living dead thread!
DDTC - Dolor del todo cuerpo, it part of the disease spectrum that includes todo me duele.
DDTC - Dolor del todo cuerpo, it part of the disease spectrum that includes todo me duele.
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KKFCCP -- Koo Koo For Cocoa Puffs.
Ok... this one's my favorite being in San Antonio... probably the DM2 capital of the United States
I can't believe no one's put this one:
GOMER: Get out of my emergency room.
another one I like:
JACOB Syndrome: No matter how piss drunk someone is passed out on the floor (or vomiting on the floor...) they've had "Just A Couple Of Beers!" (Honest!)
GOMER: Get out of my emergency room.
another one I like:
JACOB Syndrome: No matter how piss drunk someone is passed out on the floor (or vomiting on the floor...) they've had "Just A Couple Of Beers!" (Honest!)
A good all purpose psyche diagnosis:
CAASHaR Syndrome: Crazy As A **** House Rat
ATL w/ PJC's: Acute Tachy-Lordia with Premature Jesus Complexes
(Interestingly, there is a positive corrolation between ATL and TFTE; the higher the OU, the faster the ATL rate. 3OU correlates to ATL of ~140)
CAASHaR Syndrome: Crazy As A **** House Rat
ATL w/ PJC's: Acute Tachy-Lordia with Premature Jesus Complexes
(Interestingly, there is a positive corrolation between ATL and TFTE; the higher the OU, the faster the ATL rate. 3OU correlates to ATL of ~140)
My evidenced based contribution to the thread:
http://www.mja.com.au/public/issues/xmas98/thomas/thomas.html
I seriously need to use this for the next journal club.
http://www.mja.com.au/public/issues/xmas98/thomas/thomas.html
I seriously need to use this for the next journal club.
Hahaha...useful pointer. Love it.
Bump! 👍
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Here's a few from Emergency by Mark Brown:
Chartomegaly
Negative or Positive Wallet Biopsy
Dwindles- failure to thrive in GOMERs
FTD- fixin' to die
Gomergram- shotgun approach to diagnosis because, by definition, GOMERs are too senile to describe their symptoms
Goombah- a worrisome mass or tumor
Porcelain level- crock of ****
Pre-orgasmic Syndome or Irritable Male Syndome
Positive taillight sign- taillights of family dropping off gomer
SPOTAs- I need a written excuse cuz i was spota go to work
terrasphere- dirtball
WNL- we never looked
Chartomegaly
Negative or Positive Wallet Biopsy
Dwindles- failure to thrive in GOMERs
FTD- fixin' to die
Gomergram- shotgun approach to diagnosis because, by definition, GOMERs are too senile to describe their symptoms
Goombah- a worrisome mass or tumor
Porcelain level- crock of ****
Pre-orgasmic Syndome or Irritable Male Syndome
Positive taillight sign- taillights of family dropping off gomer
SPOTAs- I need a written excuse cuz i was spota go to work
terrasphere- dirtball
WNL- we never looked
I believe the newer, more acceptable term is status hispanicus.
