Three letter acronyms

[John Rumm]

While I sympathise with what you are saying, it seems it is not unreasonable to expect the person asking the question to do a little of their own research as well. Even if that means doing a quick google, or just posting a reply saying "WTF does that mean?". For some technical subjects (like electrical) where precision in terminology is important, it can be very hard going to type out fuller versions of MCB, CU, or CFL every time they are used.

You may find some of these helpful also:

?title=Electrical_Glossary?title=Wood_Glossary(in fact just searching the wiki will often turn up an answer)

[The Wanderer]

No, his three letter name at the end struck me as amusing, given the subject line.

[The Wanderer]

Ah, you picked the wrong person to mention that reply to. All makes sense to me. I am - or was until I retired - an electrical engineer.

Nah, since it apparently went over your head, your three letter name at the end of your post struck me as amusing given the subject line.......

[The Natural Philosopher]

Or trains..

[Mark]

hope she gives her ETA at the RTA.

mark

[The Medway Handyman]

:-)

For some reason they are now called RTC's collision being more PC than accident. something to do with fudging figures no doubt.

[John Rumm]

I think it is more to do with blame and insurers. The term "accident" allows more scope for it being no ones fault. A collision however is more likely to be caused by someone who's insurers can then be saddled with the cost of the ambulance attendance etc.

[geoff]

In message , robgraham writes

So 5 letter ones are OK, then ?

like ... DIGAF ?

[geoff]

Train de reduciert vitesse ?

[Lobster]

So did I win?? The suspense is killing me...

David

[The Medway Handyman]

Close but no cigar :-)

[ARWadworth]

It is a good job your daughter is not a doctor. It seems that the acronyms doctors use are nearly killing people:)

The acronyms used in the childrens ward at my local hospital are a little less flattering. PNS/PAP/SPS are some of the ones used.

Adam

[judith]

Very topical:

Doctors are being warned that using abbreviations in medical notes is putting patients' lives at risk. The UK's Medical Defence Union said difficulties often arose because abbreviations can have more than one meaning or might be misread.

[Dave Liquorice]

Did you see my other post at 00:55 of Field Incident Triage?

Only one other close offering that I can see.

[The Medway Handyman]

Forward Incident Team.

Due to the road closures around the firework display near the London Eye, ambulances would have been delayed, so they surrounded the area with 16 Forward Incident Teams.

Team consisted of 1 x paramedic & 2 x St Johns with a huge backpack containing de fib, heart monitor, blood pressure machine, sats analyser etc on foot walking around a small area of the crowd, so they could go straight in within minutes.

Just finished reading the 33 page incident plan. Bloody impressive. They had everything from terrorist attack to freak weather covered in detail, covered everything you could possibly imagine.

[Dave Liquorice]

Ah, the RVP and "clinical lead" misled me into rather larger, satic, contingency set up to cover the crowds at the Fireworks and New Year in general.

They are always a good read, try finding your CEPOs plan(s) should be on your county councils web site somewhere.

[Lobster]

So what's that particular FLA, then? Just tried searching for "CEPO" on mine, and drawn a blank!

David

[Dave Liquorice]

County Emergency Planning Officer. Deals with contingancy planning for the county in liason with the emergency services, utilities, etc. Some counties (the "nuclear free" ones) only had minimal CEPO activity in days gone by as the CEPO would also deal with civil defence, ie what to do if the town gets nuked. Things have changed now.

[John Rumm]

That would be an ETLA actually...

[Andy Champ]

No, that's the London way of pronouncing "Free Letter Acronym". Innit.

Andy