slang starting with 'a'
ABG
- Definition:
- Arterial blood gas. (ABG) is a blood test that is primarily performed using blood from an artery. It involves puncturing an artery with a thin needle and syringe and drawing a small volume of blood.
- Usage:
- The patient's ABG showed high CO2 levels. Perhaps that's why he's being disruptive on the unit and singing the theme to Chitty Chitty Bang Bang.
ACLS
- Definition:
- Advanced cardiac life support. (ACLS) refers to a set of clinical interventions for the urgent treatment of cardiac arrest and other life threatening medical emergencies, as well as the knowledge and skills to deploy those interventions. It's a certification every critical care nurse needs.
- Usage:
- Having looked over your resume, it says here that you're ACLS certified, but then it goes on to say that your only work experience is as a supervisor at SeaWorld's Orca Tank. I think you have some explaining to do.
airplane
- Definition:
- To tilt the operating table laterally. The table attached with arm boards resembles an airplane. The request is often accompanied by a pantomime of the surgeon's hand simulating an airplane's roll.
- Usage:
- Surgeon to anesthesiologist: "Can you airplane the table this way? No, the other way. Alright, now rainbow it away from me.
Airwolf
- Definition:
- The name given to a air ambulance, based on a 1980's TV show. Airwolf was an American television series that ran from 1984 through 1987. The program concerned a high-tech military helicopter, code named Airwolf, and her crew as they undertook various missions, many involving espionage, with a Cold War theme.
- Usage:
- The Airwolf will only take 30 minutes to get there. Now you know, and knowing is half the battle.
AMA
- Definition:
- American Medical Association. It is the largest association of physicians and medical students in the United States.
- Usage:
- Yeah, in the 19% of practicing physicians who are members of the AMA. It's not that it's elite, it's just that I want to be a part of something and The Hair Club for Men won't have me because of my merkin.
ambu
- Definition:
- A bag valve mask (also known as a BVM or Ambu bag) is a hand-held device used to provide positive pressure ventilation to a patient who is not breathing or who is breathing inadequately.
- Usage:
- The paramedic showed up with his ambu in hand, and I swear he looked just like Nick Cage in Bringing Out the Dead. Talk about a career that needs emergency assistance!
amp & gent
- Definition:
- Ampicillin and Gentamicin. Infections caused by gram-positive bacteria can also be treated with aminoglycosides, but other types of antibiotics are more potent and less damaging to the host. In the past the aminoglycosides have been used in conjunction with beta-lactam antibiotics in streptococcal infections for their synergistic effects, particularly in endocarditis. One of the most frequent combinations is ampicillin and gentamicin.
- Usage:
- We have the patient on amp and gent for his endocarditis. He came in complaining of a fever and chills, which evidently he had been self-medicating by taking some of his child's Flintstone's Vitamins. Welcome to America.
angel lust
- Definition:
- A post-mortem erection, technically a priapism, observed in the corpses of human males who have been executed, particularly by hanging. Forensically, a postmortem priapism is an indicator that death was likely swift and violent.
- Usage:
- Looks like a hanging.
-How do you know?
Angel lust. That, and the rope tied around his neck.
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