psycho single n.— «When my freshman year came to an end in May 1981, I packed up my remnants from the “psycho single” I had been assigned—a single dorm room reserved for emergency security risks—and returned to L.A...
ramping n.— «Queensland Health has backed down from plans to fine public hospitals that force ambulances to wait long periods to unload patients at their emergency departments. A proposal for penalising hospitals for the practice known as...
PJ n.— «The USAF has barely 300 of these operators whose job is to deploy by any means necessary—sea, air, or land—to rescue downed aircrew members and injured special operators. Pararescuemen, also known as “PJs,” are trained...
code pink n. in a hospital, an emergency concerning an infant, including a medical complication or a risk of abduction. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)
code pink n.— «Dr. Todd Scharnberg thrives on the intermittent excitement of the work. He described how he and other neonatologists respond to a “Code Pink,” hospital jargon for when a medical team is called in to assist a...
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...