Friday, January 16, 2009
Best day yet in the ICU
I switched my internship from Sunday to Thursday. Yesterday showed that switch was the right move because I got to see an actual procedure yesterday!!!! Dressing of a deep wound for suction. The wound specialist used pressure from saline bullets to wash out some of the clotted blood, measured the depth, length and width of the hole using a q-tip (it was around 5.3cmx4.7cmx5cm), put in silver as local disinfectant, and stuffed in a lot of foam (just regular sterile foam!) and hooked the patient up to the suction machine. I got to hold the skin in place!!!! Not to mention one of the nurses pointed out the pharmacist! Problem is I don't know how to approach her because she's so busy.
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