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GuP
05-05-2006, 10:15 AM
can an anesthesiologist describe his/her normal day at work in a hospital or/and private practice?

The_Sensei
05-05-2006, 11:16 PM
can an anesthesiologist describe his/her normal day at work in a hospital or/and private practice?

Sure. I'll expand on the ABCs of anesthesia that everyone knows:

Airway
Book
Chair
Doughnut
Extubate
Funnies (Read)
Go
Home

Peace out!

USFanes
05-06-2006, 01:56 AM
depends on where you work. some places are cush, only healthy patients, some are sicker and not so cush, and then there is academics and critical care, pain, etc. Your job when you finish residency is to find the cush one with healthy patients that also pays well...but lets hope medicare doesn't keep cutting reimbursements even further...

iron
05-06-2006, 02:04 AM
I came in at 3pm today (well, yesterday). I inherited a board with about 10 cases. Mish-mash of ortho, neuro spine, pedi crani, plastics flaps that I finished off with the help of residents :) . During the last six hours or so, it's four in the morning now, we did:

41 yo woman MVA 6d ago, ORIF tib-fib with rectus flap
57yo man ORIF humerus industrial accident
12yo boy debridement of burned feet/lower legs
15yo boy motorbike v. tree, ORIF tibia
40yo man motorcycle v. car ORIF humerus
60yo man fell off barstool, internal bleed. surgeon said it was the worst liver he's seen in 30+ years, when they opened him up 4L + poured out, we got him back to the ICU to die there
GSW to chest, cracked chest in ED, dead
GSW to arm - not coming to OR till tomorrow
GSW to head - just grazed him, he'll be okay

and probably a few other things. I guess trauma season is upon us!

The_Sensei
05-10-2006, 12:17 PM
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Noyac
05-10-2006, 03:16 PM
I came in at 3pm today (well, yesterday). I inherited a board with about 10 cases. Mish-mash of ortho, neuro spine, pedi crani, plastics flaps that I finished off with the help of residents :) . During the last six hours or so, it's four in the morning now, we did:

41 yo woman MVA 6d ago, ORIF tib-fib with rectus flap
57yo man ORIF humerus industrial accident
12yo boy debridement of burned feet/lower legs
15yo boy motorbike v. tree, ORIF tibia
40yo man motorcycle v. car ORIF humerus
60yo man fell off barstool, internal bleed. surgeon said it was the worst liver he's seen in 30+ years, when they opened him up 4L + poured out, we got him back to the ICU to die there
GSW to chest, cracked chest in ED, dead
GSW to arm - not coming to OR till tomorrow
GSW to head - just grazed him, he'll be okay

and probably a few other things. I guess trauma season is upon us!

Liver lacs do best if you don't operate unless of course they are bleeding out in front of you.