Can You Talk the Talk?????
| Term | Definition |
| ABC's | Ambulate Before Carry or Always Bill Completely |
| AGA | Acute Gravity Attack |
| Airborne Ranger | Suicide by fall |
| ALS | Absolute Loss of Sanity |
| ALS Units | Super duper pooper scoopers |
| Ambudexterous | The ablity to hold a BVM Mask with 2 hands while squeezing the bag with your elbow |
| ART | Assuming Room Temperature |
| BA Bingo | a lottery based on blood alcohol levels of a patient |
| Barium | What you do when CPR fails |
| BATS | Busted All To S**t |
| BFC | Big F**king Crash |
| Binky Test | The ability for an infant to show the basic stability and interest in ' the important things in life ' by placidly sucking on a pacifier |
| BLOB | Bum Lying on Bench |
| BLS | Barbaric Life Support, Barely Supporting Life or Basic Lifting Service |
| BLS Survey | A -Airway, B- Breathing, C - Cancel Paramedics |
| Bluey on the Green | CPR on a golf course |
| BOHICA | Bend Over Here It Comes Again |
| BOHICAWKY | Bend Over Here It Comes Again Without KY |
| BSS | Bilateral Samsonite Syndrome , a Patient who is waiting for EMS on the porch with both of their bags packed |
| CCFCCP | Coo-coo for cocoa puffs |
| CHAOS | Chief Has Arrived On Scene |
| Civil War Dead | Blue on one side, Gray on the other |
| Clean Jerk | What you hope to get when you pick up a body that's been down for awhile |
| Code Brown | S**T Call |
| Code Orca | Patient weights well over 300 pounds |
| Code Surfing | Riding the stretcher into the ER while performing CPR |
| Copulate | Sex between two consenting Police officers |
| CPR | the practice of squashing some dead guys
chest in hopes of squeezing enough blood to the brain to keep them alive
for a few minutes till enough help arrives
Also known as Cardiac Public Relations, Can't Possibly Recover or Check Pockets & Run |
| CRAFT | Can't Remember A F**King Thing |
| DIB | Dead In Bed |
| Ditch Doctors | Paramedics |
| Doing the Elvis | Vagal out on the toliet |
| DRT | Dead Right There |
| DVR | Darth Vader Respirations |
| DWPA | Died with Paramedic Assistance |
| EMD | Early Morning Discovery - i.e. he woke up dead |
| EMS Wedgie | The condition of an EMT or Paramedic after being "helped" with a firm grip on the belt accompanied by a lifting action while carrying a patient down a flight of stairs |
| EMT | Expensive Medicare Taxi , Egg Crate Mattress Technician , Extra Man on Truck or Early Morning Transporter |
| ETOH | Extremely Trashed or Hammered |
| FDGB | Fall DOwn Go Boom |
| Ghetto Cattle | Pit Bulls |
| GPM | God***s Per Hour |
| Haitian Dune Buggy | What is left of a car after the fire department cuts off the roof and doors in an extracation |
| Hang a Texaco Drip | Haul butt fast to the ER |
| HIBGIA | Had it before , got it again |
| Land Tuna | An extremely obese patient |
| LOL | Little old Lady |
| LOL LOL | Little old lady lying on linoleum |
| MAGGOT | Medically able ( to ) go get other transport |
| NKDA | Not Known, Didn't Ask |
| Para Pups | Paramedic Students |
| Patient Vu | The feeling that you have treated this patient before |
| PCL | Pre Code Look |
| PID | Pink in Dere |
| PITA | Pain in the Ass |
| S.H.I.T | Special High Intensity Training |
| Tachylordiosis | a patient rapidly screams ' lordy lordy lordy ' |
| Tachylordy with a junctional Jesus | lordy lordy lordy lordy Jesus lordy lordy, this condition usually affects elderly women |
| TBC | Total Body Crunch |
| Tape Boogers | Reminants on the patients skin of old adhesive residues from tape, EKG pads used on previous calls. |
| Tater | a veggie patient |
| Tater toter | an ambulance that transports the above |
| TMB | Too many birthdays |
| Touchdown Sign | As you approach a scene, the bystanders are standing on the roadside with both hands in the air |
| VOMIT | Vital signs, O2, Monitors, IV, Transport |
| WADAO | Weak and dizzy all over |
| WNL | With in normal limits or we never looked |