noun
General Slang
CTD
· noun · medical
Circling The Drain: a patient who isn't going to make it.
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Hospital shorthand for a patient who's actively dying despite everything, or already gone in everything but name. Stands for 'Circling The Drain' (or, more bluntly, 'Certain To Die'). Said quietly at handover, never written in the notes.
“Bed nine's been CTD since the second pressor maxed out, family's on their way in.”
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CTD In A Sentence
Bed nine's been CTD since the second pressor maxed out, family's on their way in.
Origin & Usage
Initialism of the older phrase 'circling the drain', evoking water spiralling down a plughole.
Variants
circling the drain
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