Can any nurse or doctors tell me what a hot list is?

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Currently in hospital with a inflamed gallbladder plan is to get inflammation down, they have said I will be placed on the "hot list" once that happens, I know I need my gallbladder out, does this mean it will be done soon?

Thank you

I've only heard the term hot used once in a medical setting and that was when I'd had to call an ambulance for DH who had a total blockage of the colon which needed emergency surgery - the paramedic who attended first rang for an ambulance and asked for a "hot" response.