I stumbled upon this list on the Internet yesterday and had to publish a link to it. Some of the abbreviations are hilarious, some disgusting, and most very appropriate. My new favourites include:
AALFD – Another A**hole Looking For Drugs
240 grain Injection – 44 calibre magnum wound
Ass Grapes – badly thrombosed or strangulated haemorrhoids
BSS – Bilateral Samsonite Syndrome: patient admitted with both their bags packed in preparation
Chart Dehiscence - to drop a patient chart and everything falls out.
DTMA – Don’t Transfer to Me Again
FABIANS – Felt Awful But I’m Allright Now Syndrome
AST – Assuming Seasonal Temperature (dead)
FOOBA – Found On Ortho Barely Alive
Genital hurties – genital herpes
HIBGIA – Had it before, got it again
And my favourite nursing order of all:
PBABLTO – Pine Box at Bedside, Leave Top Off
like to add
FOOT => flat out on tarmac (what you see when biker goes down in full flight)
love this!!!!
AAFLD, Chart dehiscence, HIBGIA are my favourites on that fantastic list :D
Oh this is flippin awesome! Hope the dragonqueen doesn’t mind the bandwidth drain, I’ve been forwarding like a MOFO.
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When I used to work VA, PBAB was commonly used in charts.
When an adminstrator got pissed about it, the nurses creatively claimed it stood for “Peanut Butter at Bedside” to help diabetics.
some of my favorites are TFTB= too fat to breathe
and LGFD= looks good from door -for those docs who do there assessments from the doorway and everyone knows FUBAR!
LOL, those are funny! One of my favorites is “chart dehiscense” because I don’t know how many times I’ve taken a chart off the shelf at work, only to have everything fall out onto the floor :p
Here, I’ve got another one for you, “shit-tastic,” what is said upon changing a patient/client with nasty diarrhea.
Alphabetized, too. As long as you start with the right metaphor, you may find just the phrase you are looking for. A modern day Ambrose Bierce.
HONDAS – Hypertensive Overweight Non-compliant diabetic asthmatic smokers.
AKA – the majority of ER pts.
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