crash the paeds
v. phr.— «The senior midwife told her junior colleague to “crash the paeds,” the term for an emergency call for the paediatric crash team.» —“‘Why could no one tell us why our son died at birth?’” by Jo Revill The Observer (United Kingdom) Mar. 11, 2007. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)
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