noun
General Slang
GPO
· noun · medical
Good for Parts Only — the patient who's not going to make it but could save several others.
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Brutal trauma-bay acronym for a patient whose neurological prognosis is hopeless but whose organs are intact and transplant-viable. Sits in the same dark register as 'donorcycle' — staff use it to compartmentalise rather than to be cruel.
“Head CT's a disaster — looks like a GPO, transplant team's been notified.”
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GPO In A Sentence
Head CT's a disaster — looks like a GPO, transplant team's been notified.
Origin & Usage
American trauma and ICU slang, documented in medical-slang glossaries from the 1990s onward.
Variants
G.P.O.
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