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Medical Slang Abbreviations

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NGMI — Not Going To Make It
3H — Enema That Is "high, Hot, And A Hell Of A Lot." Reputedly Given To Patients Who Give Staff A Hard Time.
4F — Fair, Fat, Female And Forty OR Fat, Forty-ish, Flatulent Female (both Mean Abdominal Pain Patient Who Is Candidate For Gall Bladder Disease)
FHHS — (US) Female Hispanic Hysterical Syndrome (screaming And Crying)
TARFU — Things Are Really Fucked Up. A Situation Worse Than SNAFU, But Not Quite FUBAR.
CABG — Coronary Artery Bypass Graft
MAFAT — Mandatory Anasthaesia Fuck Around Time, Precedes Any Incision
CRI — Cranial Rectal Inversion :-)
FINE — Fucked Up , Insecure, Neurotic & Emotional
GOA — Gone On Arrival (police Turn Up, Ambulance Turns Up, Fire Brigade Turns Up, Patient Doesn't)
MTF — Metabolize To Freedom (i.e. Let The Person Sober Up, And Then They Can Leave)
TBC — Total Body Crunch: Multiple Injuries
LOL — Little Old Lady
ES — Eiffel Syndrome - From "I Fell On It" Excuse By Patient With A Foreign Object In The Rectum
WOMBAT — Waste Of Money, Brains And Time. Another great acronym from down-under. Ideal for project management commentaries, certain corporate re-branding schemes, the latest government training initiative, etc. (Ack D Martin) The WOMBAT acronym is alternatively in
FOOBA — Found On Ortho Barely Alive (a Play On FUBAR - Fucked Up Beyond All Recognition)
PPP — Piss Poor Protoplasm
TBD — Total Body Dolor I.e. Complains Of Pain Everywhere
YOYO — You're On Your Own
DFO — (US) Done Fell Out (anything From Fainting To Cardiac Arrest)
WADHAO — Weak And Dizzy And Hurt All Over
SWAG — Scientific Wild Ass Guess
DILLIGAF — Do I Look Like I Give A Fuck? (Internet Shorthand)
HAIRY PSALMS — Haven't Any Idea Regarding Your Patient, Send A Lot More Serum
FORD — Found On Road Dead
FFFF — See 4F (Fat, Fair, Female, Forty = Gall Bladder Disease)
GLF — Ground Level Fall (tripped Over)
ISQ — In Status Quo
PIA — Pain In The Ass
FUPA — Fat Upper Pussy Area
HIVI — Husband Is Village Idiot
TF BUNDY — Totally Fucked, But Unfortunately Not Dead Yet
DRT — Dead Right There. (ODSA) Doctors and nurses shorthand acronym for a patient found dead at the scene.
NKDA — No Known Durg Allergies
PHAT — Pretty Hot And Tempting (warning To Others)
PITA — Pain In The Association
SAS — Sick As Shit
TDS — Terminal Deceleration Syndrome (e.g. RTA Death, High-rise Syndrome, Jump-suicides And Parachute-failed-to-open)
BOHICA — Bend Over, Here It Comes Again
CYA — Cover Your Associates
B-52 — Combined 5mg Of Haldol IV 2mg Of Ativan IV
EMT — Extraordinary Masochistic Tendencies (joke At Expense Of Emergency Medical Technicians)
CRS — Can't Remember Stuff
POPTA — Passed Out Prior to Arrival
VOMIT — Victim Of Modern Imaging Technology (i.e. Try Treating The Patient, Not The Report From Radiology; Particularly Referring To Invasive Procedures For False Positives.
404 — 404 Moment. On Card Rounds - When A Patient's Medical Records Cannot Be Located (from Internet Error Message: 404 Page Not Found)
FOS — Full Of Shit (either Severely Constipated Or Metaphorically)
HBD — Has Been Drinking
BTH — Bury the Hatchet
45C — Patient Is One Chromosome Short Of A Full Set (questionable IQ)