Still chugging along....
Wow, I have been a bad blogger! Its amazing how quickly these last few months have flown by. Things are going well in my CA-1 year. I'm currently doing a PACU rotation and before that I did a 1 month pre-op rotation. Both have been great experiences especially in terms of being able to follow a patient through their surgical experience. During the preop month (we call it Preoperative Evaluation "POE" clinic) I had a chance to really tune patients up for surgery; stress testing, sleep studies or simply initiating beta-blocker therapy. This month is managing a lot of postoperative nausea/vomiting, hyper/hypotension and of course pain control. Its amazing how patients can be in 10/10 pain and fall asleep while telling me about it! I have to admit, I'm really looking forward to being back in the OR next month.
Call has been a great way to keep up on the OR skills that are still so new to me. Last Friday night between 10pm and 7am I did 4 consecutive appendectomies! I swear there was a sign outside the ER offering appys at half price! For the first case, I felt a little rusty (having been out of the OR for 2 months) but by the fourth case I was feeling right back in the saddle - albeit a little sleepy.
I'm heading up to Canada to see my long lost husband for Xmas and New Years - really looking forward to that... hopefully that Greencard will come through soon! Ok, well I have a "Postop Nausea and Vomiting" presentation to work on for Friday so I'll sign off for now - promise to write again soon!






