Why in hospitals, is 'gun shot wound' appreciated as "GSW"-

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• middleagerioter@lemmy.world ⁨29⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

  Is this a stupid ai question?

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• GeneralEmergency@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  G S Dub.

  It’s also shorter to write.

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• Apytele@sh.itjust.works ⁨22⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Easier to write. We spend 5 minutes talking about you at handoff (and I need to write down everything AS the other person is talking) then I have to write a mini essay about each person. Abbreviations are highly specific to specialty, but much easier. An example from my specialty might be:

  BIBA GSW to LA (iso suspect DV but pt denies), also ligature marks to neck. WC placed, CT (-).

  Which is to say

  The ambulance brought them to the ED for a gunshot wound to the left arm. We’re pretty sure the spouse tried to shoot them and it looks like they tried to strangle them too, but they won’t admit it / is covering for them. The wound consult is in and they did a CT of their neck already, no severe injury noted.

  …which is like three times as long.

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• Zorsith@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  You can yell GSW across a crowded room and not cause a panic like yelling “GUN SHOT wound” might.

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  • Rhoeri@piefed.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    I’d think that in an emergency room, it wouldn’t be that out of place to cause panic.

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    • FriendOfDeSoto@startrek.website ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      Then you’d think wrong.

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• derekabutton@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Just pulling this out of my ass, but perhaps it’s an artifact from handwritten medical charts. GSW is shorter to write.

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  • Omgpwnies@lemmy.world ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    it’s faster typed out as well. When I worked call centres, we’d shorthand all of our notes because we had 15-30 seconds to wrap up the final notes after the call ended, not to mention no agent wants to read a novel to get up to speed.

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  • Rhoeri@piefed.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Ooh! That’s probably it! I hadn’t thought of it that way.

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• DagwoodIII@piefed.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Hospitals and ambulances do a lot of handwritten reports. In a conversation, the nurse/doctor/paramedic will say ‘gunshot wound’ but write it GSW.

  Worked in public health and never heard anyone say ‘GSW.’

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  • Rhoeri@piefed.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Could be that it’s a TV only thing. Been binging a lot of medical dramas lately.

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    • prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      New season of The Pitt coming out this week I think

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• TigerAce@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Depends on the language you use. In the Netherlands W is pronounced as “wae” instead of “double you”.

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• rumschlumpel@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Abbreviations aren’t just used to make a word quicker to say or write, but also to obfuscate.

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  • Gluek@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Dashing in a real rush, hurry, or else accident

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• blimthepixie@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Wait until you learn about abbreviating the World Wide Web 

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  • Rhoeri@piefed.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Is that a hospital term I’m unaware of?

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    • ZoDoneRightNow@kbin.earth ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      www as in www.website.tld means "world wide web". Double-U double-U double-U uses 9 syllables when world wide web uses 3

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• melsaskca@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  It’s quicker to write/type the abbreviation, so syllables don’t matter. Most common example of more syllables in the abbreviation than the words themselves is “WWW” (9 syllables) for “World Wide Web” (3 syllables). Quicker to type but longer to speak.

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  • myrrh@ttrpg.network ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    …i never understood why the convention didn’t become web.domain.tld for exactly that reason…

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    • GamingChairModel@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      While we’re at it, I never understood why the convention for domain name wasn’t left to right tld, domain, subdomain. Most significant on left is how we do almost everything else, including numbers and ISO 8601 dates.

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    • CmdrShepard49@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      Because we must pay homage to mister World Wide himself, Pitbull, as we browse the internet.

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  • sanguinepar@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    I saw Stephen Fry suggest once that it be pronounced “Wuh Wuh Wuh” which I kind of like :-)

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    • corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca ⁨22⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Dub dub dub.

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  • Rhoeri@piefed.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Yep. I think this his the answer. Hadn’t thought of it being abbreviated as written, then spoken as the written shorthand.

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• IWW4@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  I dont know why GWS is used , but there are a bunch of the medical abbreviations that are not intuitive to me.

  • PRN = As Needed
  • ASA = aspirin
  • BRP = Bathroom Priviledges (this one is intuitive)
  • PT = Bloodtest
  • bid = Twice a Day
  • BS can = Breath Sounds or Bowl Sounds
  • C with a “-“ on top of it means “with”
  • M = so many things.

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  • ZoDoneRightNow@kbin.earth ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    • PRN is an abbreviation of a Latin phrase "pro re nata".
    • ASA is acetylsalicylic acid which is the chemical name for aspirin
    • PT is a specific type of blood test that measures how long it takes for blood to clot called "prothrombin time"
    • BID comes from another Latin phrase "bis in die". TID is 3 times and QID is 4 times a day
    • BS can also mean blood sugar
    • c̅ is basically equivelant to w/ meaning with but it comes from the Latin "cum"

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  • weariedfae@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    I thought pt meant patient?

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    • Apytele@sh.itjust.works ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Or physical therapy.

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    • IWW4@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      Probably does

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• slazer2au@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  How are you pronouncing those words? I get 6 and 3 syllables respectively.

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  • Rhoeri@piefed.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Gun ¹ Shot ¹ Wound ¹ = 3

    G ¹ S ¹ W ³ = 5

    The letter “w” is three syllables.

    Double ² and U ¹

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