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Dead Side of the traffic pattern. We don't call it that.
What do you call it?
A small, but significant proportion of aircraft still fly 'non-radio' at uncontrolled airfields here. Is it the same there?
We sure do have plenty of Non Radio traffic (NARDOs).
We tend to avoid terms like dead engine or dead side. Dead anything gets the passengers upset. The media loves terms like that too. I was replying to a thread in a non aviation forum about that recent ATR crash and one of the posters said the plane was in a "death stall". I am positive that was coined by the media somewhere to incite more drama.
We call any operation in runway heading "upwind", the opposite of downwind.
We also make upwind entries to traffic patterns, often to a midfield crosswind. This puts the whole pattern in your view and avoids crossing over high and descending which has its own portion of hazard.
When I was training, a go around from final was a small step to the right, to keep the runway (and probably the reason you went around) in view out your left side. We did not jump all the way over to a proper upwind for many reasons, including complying with noise abatement at one sided airports.