My first friday of third year. I am kind of a dork and wish this week was a full week, but I am looking forward to sleeping in tomorrow. Today, I got two more intubations and I am learning to better manage my time as a third year. I found a woman in the holding room and stood by her bed until the CRNA came by and asked if she was a good candidate for me to intubate. She said to talk about it later and I thought I was in trouble. The woman couldn't have been nicer but didn't look like the typical LSU patient.
Her mother was there and they both took an extreme interest in who was going to be in the room with her, writing down every name. I didn't think anything about it. They say that is more common with parents of children having an operation and I took it that this woman was just watching out for her 30 year old daughter going into surgery. She also mentioned that ENT (ear nose and throat) would be doing the surgery and I still failed to get it. I thought they were going to remove nasal polyps or something of the sort.
It wasn't until we got into the room and the patient was put to sleep that the CRNA told me that all of these small deviations from the norm that I had observed are because this was a "plastics" patient. I was blown away because just a few minutes earlier I was thinking that I had never seen a patient look so good going into surgery. This woman was gorgeous! I still don't understand why she was having the surgery, but that's not something I'll ever know.
I asked another CRNA why a rich woman was having a nose job done at a state/charity hospital and she said that the plastics doctors specializing in ENT have privileges are multiple hospitals and probably could get in here the fastest. She also said that LSU has some of the best plastics physicians around. Who would have know?
After this, we got to go downstairs and play with the very smart dummy that has pulses, heart sounds andt talks to you. They call it the simulation lab and you get to run through a case and see if you know what you are doing...basically does your patient live or die. Ours lived for today but next week their will be complications that he wants us to be prepared for, so next week I'm not sure iSTAN is going to make it. But we're hoping for the best. Either way, it'll be really cool. Great end to a great week. Now for my birthday weekend!!!
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