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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
- WNL: Within normal limits or We never looked
- WTF or Whiskey Tango Foxtrot: What The F
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