Office of the Fire Chief
To: All Ambulance Personnel
From: Chief of Operations
Subject: Proper Narrative Descriptions
It has come to our attention from several emergency rooms that many
EMS
(Emergency Medical Services) narratives have taken a decidedly creative
direction lately. Effective immediately, all members are to refrain from using
slang and abbreviations to describe patients, such as the following:
1) Cardiac patients should not be referred to with MUH (messed up heart),
PBS
(pretty bad shape), PCL (pre-code looking) or
HIBGIA (had it before, got it
again).
2) Stroke patients are NOT “Charlie Carrots” Nor are rescuers to use
CCFCCP
(Coo Coo for Cocoa Puffs) to describe their mental state.
3) Trauma patients are not “CATS (cut all to sh*t),
FDGB (fall down, go boom),
TBC (total body crunch) or hamburger helper.”
Similarly, descriptions of a car crash do not have to include phrases like “negative vehicle to vehicle interface” or “terminal deceleration syndrome.”
4) HAZMAT teams are highly trained professionals, not “glow worms.”
5) Persons with altered mental states as a result of drug use are not considered “pharmaceutically gifted.”
6) Gunshot wounds to the head are not “trans-occipital implants.”
7) The homeless are not “urban outdoorsmen”, nor is endotracheal intubation referred to as a “PVC Challenge.”
8) And finally, do not refer to recently deceased persons as being “paws up,
ART (assuming room temperature),
CC (Cancel Christmas), CTD (circling the drain), or NLPR (no long playing records).”
I know you will all join me in respecting the cultural diversity of our patients
to include their medical orientations in creating proper narratives and log entries.
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