It’s a cold Wednesday night, and I’m sipping on some hot chocolate while watching the Rockets’ basketball game. The last month was a joy – having the opportunity to work with a co-anesthesia-intern to work up a slew of consults like supraventricular tachycardia, hypertensive urgency, sick-sinus syndrome, and the bread-and-butter…
Even though it’s the 18th of the month, I’m almost finished with my clinical duties on cardiology because I’ll be on my night shifts at the end of this week and have Thanksgiving vacation in the latter part of next week. That being said, its been a wonderful rotation so…
Congestive heart failure (CHF) is a two-part disease: “congestive” and “heart failure.” By definition, heart failure means that the heart is unable to pump sufficient quantities of blood to the rest of the body. “Congestive” refers to the vasculature being engorged with fluid causing it to essentially back up in…
Today was my second day of clinics. All I can say is… wow. The hours are long and will take some time to get used to, but it honestly feels like the 1.5 years I spent in basic sciences were like college. THIS feels like medical school.
Over the weekend, I completed my certification in CPR and advanced cardiac life support (ACLS) through the emergency medicine interest group at Baylor Med.
While an echocardiogram (ECG) looks like a not-so-impressive barrage of waves on paper, it allows a cardiologist to gain a tremendous deal of insight about a patient’s heart.
Tuesday morning, my anatomy tankmates and I continued our journey through the human body. The next stop brought us to the heart – arguably the most important muscle in the entire body (aside from trapezius) ;-).
I ordered my stethoscope from Stethoscope.com on July 6th, and it finally got delivered this evening. I now have my first official “doctor tool.” I’m just a bit discouraged that I won’t be using it for over a month.