:+: Tiffinity & Beyond :+:

clinical fun...

I've been having 3 extremely boring days at RCH. nothing to do. all I do is msn, emailing, observe surgeries, waiting for ethics approval (!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!)...

^_^ an exciting day at last!

went into a theatre where CB was. i really did get a shock when i saw the patient. he has a gigantic head, size of a baseketball. There's a HUGE cyst in his face. Feel so sad though... how would someone like this cope? And it's congenital too and getting bigger....

So here's the medical team trying to excise this cyst.

and guess what? i did my first catheter today! I put a tube through his ureter of the penis.

Funny msn conversation with Jez... he knows i've been watching a lot of circumcisions and he likes to tease me about it... there goes the convo:

"how is your day?"
"it's a really good day! I gotta do stuff in theatre!"
"what ? you touched penis?"
"..ha ha ha........... how did u know? I catheterise!"

anyway and then the surgeons were about to do a tracheotomy. The surgeon was SOOO nice.... She asked me to scrub in to 'help out'. So I did my 10 million washing of my hands and put the gown on. I helped to hold the gigantic head in place. *tiring* but i got to see everything that's going on. though i had no idea what the anatomy is when the surgeon asked questiosn... ha ha... watever... i'll learn one day.

had a lonely lunchtime coz dorz and steph didnt' come in today. thats okay i had about 48 emails or something to entertain myself.

then i went to the fiji anaesthetist and he let me do IVs (needle through veins). I missed the first one, and tried again but i buggered up....... >__< then i succeeded in the next 2 patients. YAY. ha ha...

the bit of medicine that makes an anaesthetist ecstatic is the "flush back" on the cannula....*sigh*

for an ENT (ear nose throat) surgeon, it's taking out the tonsil with no bleeding.... *sigh*

LOL....

Really shouldn't take my unique ams experience for granted...

posted by Unknown @ 7:06 PM