Guest guest Posted April 26, 2003 Report Share Posted April 26, 2003 I said: x which means y if x - y and x is english and y is limey gibberish (aka unabreviated versions of what i used) =-p followed by more crackin wise =-D enjoy! >NREMT-B - Nationally Registered Emergency Medical Technician - Basic NYC - New York City RSI - Rapid sequence Intubation, Inductions and as long as were being dirty Indickation (this is a joke term used to describe oro/esophageal penile intubation =-) tubing - intubating LOC - level/loss of consciousness (depends on use: no loc= no loss, decreasing loc = decr. level etc) to bag - ventilate w/ BVM AHAs - American Heart Association's BVM - Bag Valve Mask cric pressure - Selick's Maneuver tx - transport (also txp) HTH - hope this helps (webism) then said: (which is why i cut all that up to make that little list) and i hopped to cutting up his stuff too! > From: " Parkinson " <gary.parkinson@...> >Subject: RE: Digest Number 905 > >Hi Bill, >welcome to the list! THANKS! >thanks for your input and you're welcome! >some of the abbreviations a new to me Jim attacked that and i added my two cents, lets see if that gets us through the day... >but I expect our British ones are just as confusing to you as well! nah, i watched a lot of Python growing up ;-) you guys aren't bad (the SP catalog at the station helped a bit) >enjoy the banter of the list best wishes so far so good, thanks again! Then Jim chimed in with: > From: " Jim Dawdy " <jdawdy@...> >Subject: An Anglo American Terminology Guide Guide >There may be some mistakes here- please feel free to correct. I always come correct... whachu sayin J? >An Anglo American Terminology Guide Guide (in no particular order) >ER- Emergency Room (old usage) not old just not cool cause everyone knows what it is 'cosa goose and george clooney >ED- Emergency Department (in vogue usage) looks good on ACRs dontcha think? >BVM- Bag Valve Mask i.e. Ambu bag >RSI- Rapid Sequence Intubation: Use of paralytics and sedatives for >intubation of concious patients >LOC-Level of Conciousness >AHA- American Heart Association >Fit-Seizure >House Officer-resident (very roughly- the US has basically Interns, >residents and attendings) >Consultant-Attending physician >Theater (UK)=Surgery(US) >Theater (US)- The actual room the surgery takes place in. More commonly > " OR " or operating room. also where you see movies and plays, uh huh really =-) >Surgery(UK)- a small clinic or doctors office slicing some one open >KVO-Keep Vein Open >TKO-To Keep Open (same as KVO) >ALS(US)-Advanced life support: Any treatment beyond basic life support. some people are starting to use the term ILS for intermediate levels, strangely enough the US Army's medic program is now doing NREMT-B and PHTLS as it's certs but the medics are doing EMT-I or above skills in many cases, I personally think it handicaps our servicemen when they get out of their enlistment and leads further to the lack of legitimacy of EMS/PHC as a carreer in the US >ALS(UK)-Equivalent to ACLS in the US >ACLS-Advanced Cardiac Life Support >SVN- Small Volume Nebulizer (a " Neb " for the following) is there a large vol. neb. too then? also in use is nebby/nebbie common for kids to call it that, MDIs (metered dose inhalers) are puffers, pumps, sprays, asthma breath etc. and are almost univerally improperly used by the urban youth who puff so often they cant breath without them anylonger (asthma is painfully overdiagnosed in NYC IMHO) >Salbutamol(UK)-Albuterol >ETOH-Alcohol- " On the piss " common way of saying intox/drunk when you dont want the said intox to know you're calling em a drunk. AOB - Alcohol On Breath is also common. Both terms are used with modifiers such as AOB like a mofo or that skel was so ETOH i was getting drunk off his stank! >Shooter-The syringe for preloaded drugs such as atropine,epi,etc. This >seems a mostly NYC term. >Cannulate-Start an IV >Green-an 18g IV needle. The IV caths are color coded and mostly >standarized >in the UK. In the US everybody uses the number (14 gauge, etc) >IV lifeline- A stupid way of saying " IV " found in some american literature never seen that one... that is pretty dumb... then again maybe they thought it was catchy >Guedal-a type of Oropharyngeal airway (OPA). Commonly used term in the UK >but something that most Americans only see in textbooks and on the wrapper. Bermans are the other type (the plastic ones with a cross section like an I-beam... guedels are the tube type. I personally prefer the color coded Guedels like Rusch makes and a few services in NYC use them as their standard. >Paracetamol- Acetominophen- tylenol >GTN-Glyceral Tri-nitrate- Nitroglycerin. Always use GTN outside the US, as >when you try to mail the stuff customs officers freak out when they see > " nitroglycerin " (thats an explosive!) on the manifest. >Rig-An ambulance. Also, " Bus " in NYC. Bus in NYC fo sure! >Chest Drain- Chest Tube >BMG-Blood glucose by glucometer reading >Code- a cardiac arrest- " I just worked the code from hell. " or a verb as in " He's about to code lets go. " >Code 3-Respond lights and sirens In nyc calls are assigned segment 1-8 one being highest response priority, code one is used for being " lit-up " >HDU-High dependency Unit- a step down from ICU >other not-so-medical terms in common usage among EMS personnel (the easily >offended should not scroll down) >Cunt(US)- the female genitalia >Cunt(UK)-Virtually anyone you work with or who has irritated you in the >slightest >Fanny(US)-a polite term for the buttocks >Fanny(UK)-See Cunt (US) >Piss(UK)-Beer >Piss(US)-Urine HAHAH! -bill _________________________________________________________________ MSN 8 with e-mail virus protection service: 2 months FREE* http://join.msn.com/?page=features/virus Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted September 15, 2004 Report Share Posted September 15, 2004 In a message dated 9/15/2004 7:08:46 AM Central America Standard Tim, Mike and Donna West writes: I thought that people may be interested in hearing that even if his MRI shows lesions that he will not be put on a drug until he has a second MRI that shows more lesions developing I have had only 1 MRI and it showed 1 active leision and 2 older ones so that's how my neuro made the diagnosis of "possible" MS...They cannot tell how old the "older" non-active leisions are...could be months, could be years and years. She encouraged me, but didn't push me, on the drugs...she also put me on 5 days of prednisolone by IV--whew--what a ride that was at 1000 mg per day! I didn't think 5 days could hurt me in the long run but it didn't help at all and I wouldn't do it again... especially now that they have found that at least some MS probably isn't initially autoimmune, (those new cases last Feb.) That's why I am so interested in LDN--not just the anecdotal successes but also because it boosts the immune system....which is the opposite of what you would think would work if it's an autoimmune disease....my sister has Autoimmune Hepatitis and is on heavy immuno-suppressant drugs. I've been watching to see if LDN has been used with AIH patients but don't see anything about it....that could be because AIH is truly a case of the body's immune system attacking her liver. If you boosted her immune system, I suppose it would attack even more efficiently. I sure wish they could get her off those drugs, though.. Daphne Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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