I am a career Firefighter and Paramedic working in a diverse system which covers everything from outlying rural areas to the Big City. There are days they assign me to a medic unit, and days I have to be a firefighter. It's never a dull moment around here. This blog shall remain anonymous. Names will be changed (or made up) to protect the truly innocent and the guilty by association. This blog in no way represents the policies or opinions of ANY department, it's just my way of venting. Kind of like therapy... (By the way the pic above is me. It is not stolen from a website. If you see it somewhere else, they got it here!)
Glossary
AED: Automatic External Defibrillator
ALS: Advanced Life Support
AMA: Against medical advice
Ambulance: 2 EMT-Bs (BLS)
Anal jesus: analgesics
ART: Approaching Room Temperature
Black Cloud: gets all the good calls
BLS: Basic Life Support
Blue Canary: Police officer. Homage to when coal miners took canaries into the mines with them. (Sorry guys - we love you.)
BOB: Battery Operated Boyfriend
Bravo Echo Echo Romeo: BEER
BVM: Bag Valve Mask
CRT/EMT-I: Cardiac Rescue Tech. Almost a Paramedic
DFO: Done Fell Out
DNR: Do Not Resuscitate
DRT: Dead Right There
DRTASTW: Dead Right There and Stayed That Way
EJ: External Jugular
EMT-B: Emergency Medical Technician - Basic
EMT-P: Emergency Medical Technician - Paramedic
Engine: The apparatus that holds water and hose
ETOH: Alcohol
FADO: Fire Apparatus Driver Operator
FAG: F-ing Ancient Guy
FIB: Fire Investigation Bureau
FLBs: Funny Little Blips
FNG: F-ing New Guy
FOG: F-ing Old Guy
FTO: Field Training Officer
FUBAR: F-ed up beyond all recognition
Housecoat Mafia: All of those little old ladies standing in the hallway of the retirement home who question you about your patient knowing full well you aren't supposed to tell them a darn thing.
Ladder/Stick/Truck: The apparatus that has a huge ladder on top. Responsible for extrication, search and rescue and forcible entry
LODD: Line of Duty Death
LZ: Landing zone
Medic Unit: 1 EMT-B, 1 EMT-P (ALS)
MVC: Motorvehicle collision
N/V: Nausea/Vomiting
OOS: Out of Service
Paramedic Unit: 1 EMT-I, 1 EMT-P OR 2 EMT-Ps (ALS)
Peanut Butter balls: phenobarbital
PERRL: Pupils equal, round and reactive to light
PNT: Paramedic nap time
PO: Pump Operator (and demi-god)
POV: Privately owned vehicle
Quint: Combined engine and ladder
RTO: Recruit Training Officer
Shit tickets: toilet paper
SOB: Shortness of Breath
Squad: The apparatus that fills air bottles (that's NOT oxygen we're breathing) and carries extrication/entry equipment
Tanker: The apparatus that delivers water to the fireground where there are no fire hydrants
TMI: Too much information
White Cloud: gets no calls or all BS calls in a shift
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