The first week of CV anesthesia was relatively uneventful as many of the surgeons were out-of-town on vacation or attending conferences, but I enjoyed being back in the operating room. On my first day, I watched one of the most well-known surgeons in the Texas Medical Center conduct his cases…
Now that I’ve completed my surgical ICU experience, I have a renewed sense of how pivotal teamwork is in the clinical setting. Coordination between pharmacists, respiratory therapists, nurses, and physicians was absolutely paramount in creating an ideal plan for each patient. It was also interesting to note the other parts…
I’m staring at a crazy patient census to start my second-half of this SICU rotation. :shock: Now that I’ve become acclimated to how things operate from a logistics standpoint (discharge criteria, admissions, trauma, etc.), I’m better able to gauge just how much longer patients will remain under intensive care. I’ve…
And this, ladies and gentlemen, is how Sauron’s Ring of Power met its demise… not to mention any ring that needs to be removed in the SICU. :-)
I’ve walked through the SICU on my core rotations, but it wasn’t until this week that I realized how ill some of the patients really are. Its been fun working with the new interns to create plans for challenging patients from a systems-based approach. Fortunately, our census has been low,…