Tomorrow morning, I begin my last week at Texas Heart Institute (THI). Had I chosen to stay in Houston, this is likely where I would have done my fellowships in critical care and adult cardiothoracic anesthesiology, but even as a resident, I’ve had such significant exposure to “fellow level” cases.
I’m writing this post on my last true “long call shift” of residency! 12 hours in, and its been a “thrown into the fire” kind of call shift back at the heart institute. It’s fast paced and the patients are very high acuity. Just how I like it. :-)
As a PGY-4, I have two months on the cardiothoracic anesthesia service at Texas Heart Institute (THI) and just finished my first on a memorable note. I was on call yesterday and had the privilege of working alongside an incredible clinical fellow to do a heart transplant case. This is…
I’m finished with my first call shift as a senior resident. The shift itself was rather uneventful, so I had a chance to study and set up the operating rooms for today’s cases.
It’s my first “real” day back on the job, and this time as a senior resident. I’m happy to be back among the cardiothoracic anesthesiologists at Texas Heart Institute which initially spurred my interest in this wonderful subspeciality. Although I thoroughly enjoyed the last three months of pediatric anesthesiology, I…
Tomorrow will be my last day (hooray for leap years) on the cardiothoracic anesthesia service as a CA-2 resident. The last two months have only reaffirmed my love for this particular field within anesthesiology. So much of the operative course in cardiopulmonary surgery relies on careful coordination between the surgeons,…
With half this rotation under my belt, I wanted to reflect on how my initial trepidation has transformed into enthusiasm doing cardiovascular anesthesiology. At the end of December, I had been out of the “general anesthesia” mode for months. Naturally, I was somewhat concerned that even tracheal intubation would be difficult.
I’m done with just over a week of this rotation, and my goodness, things are finally starting to come together. Having never rotated through these operating rooms as a resident, everything was different! Using a Miller 2 laryngoscope by default, central lines for practically every case, new infusion pumps, new portable…
What an absolutely incredible month! With weekends off, a week of vacation, Christmas Eve/Day off, and two academic days off to partake in Baylor Med’s anesthesiology residency interview days, I only worked a total of 14 days doing regional anesthesiology this month. In that time, I did 141 procedures. In…
Here’s the EPIC EMR template I made for rounding in the VAD/transplant ICU. The formatting is off (bold, centered, etc), but the shortlinks are still there for the problem list, problem list, recent vitals, VAD data, ins/outs, recent labs, scheduled medications, and infusion medications. Hope this helps at least one person! :-)