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Medical Slang

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  • Face plant

  • Victim fell forward injuring face against floor or other object

  • Fame

  • Mnemonic for assessment of endocarditis

  • FLB

  • "Funny-looking beat"-indeterminate or chaotic aberrance on the cardiac monitor that is not well described or not well seen as the tracing went by

  • Floater

  • Patient who has drowned and been in water for some time

  • Fluctuance

  • Used to indication the presence of a fluctuant mass. (not "fluctuants") This particular non-word has been hotly discussed on MT chat pages on the internet. It has become acceptable through usage.

  • FOF

  • Found on floor

  • FOS

  • Full of stool-clinical or radiographic determination that the patient's intestinal tract is full of stool found on sidewalk

  • Four H's

  • Hypoxemia, hypoglycemia, hypovolemia, and high bladder

  • Frequent flyer

  • Patient who overuses ER

  • FTD

  • Fixing to die-patient's future prospects of life are dim; rapid deterioration

  • FUBAR'ed

  • Fouled up beyond all recognition-used to describe either the severely traumatized individual or an intoxicated state so profound as to alter the patient's ability to be recognized as himself


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