Procedures Tips and Knowledge Pearls

Emergence

http://forums.studentdoctor.net/showthread.php?t=213500






... hope you don't mind me adding, Vent, but this thread has some great pointers.

When placing a central line on an awake patient (like in pre-op) always use an US machine if possible (sterile technique of course), have the patient in trendelenburg, and HAVE THE PATIENT VALSALVA. This will cause the IJ to blow up like a baloon allowing you to quickly place your line and save you and the patient a lot of pain and frustration.

Something I did after a year of frustration trying to remember what each attending likes and dislikes, and saving pearls (occasionally) given by attendings goes like this:


Buy a cheap spiral bound small notebook. Label the first section of the little book A-Z with several pages per letter. Then for every attending you work with you can put in how he/she wants the room set up for either just big cases (hearts, heads, spines, etc) or anything else that may be particular to them. This reduces frustration on your part trying to remember how that specific attending likes the drugs drawn up, syringes labeled, lines, etc etc AND makes you look like a superstar when they come in before the case and survey your setup. You can also note their common pimp topics, drugs they like to use and their dosages, etc etc.

The second section was saved for the random pearls I learned from various attendings. Credit was given to the attending who showed me but was simple, such as Dr.X's slick epidural placement, etc. Also other little tidbits like access codes to different places, key phone numbers, and whatever else you may like to save in a small, portable, central location.

I have had several lower level residents come to me and say " Hey Tim, I heard you had a little notebook for Dr Soandso, how does he like to do his hearts? Can I see your notebook?"

Some of my buddies told me I should get it printed off, and have the first 'useful' Senior Project. I appreciate the complement. It makes for an interesting read, saves me grief and time. It also stirs up old memories, some unpleasant, about my wonderful residency experience.

quite possibly the best thread, pound-for-pound, on the interwebs. Thanks, Vent.

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I wasn't able to open this link.
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VentdependenT said:

UT's on it again. We were handed these on our first day. Leave it hooked to the clipboard. Nice little thing to have handy.

http://www.accrs.com/default.html

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Sorry, I meant this link

http://forums.studentdoctor.net/showthread.php?t=583062

http://forums.studentdoctor.net/showthread.php?t=585389

The links to the posts about quick turnover t&a's is not working. Tried searching without luck. Can anyone either help me find the link or have some tips on some quick turnover t&a's. Thanks in advance.

kirk002 said:

The links to the posts about quick turnover t&a's is not working. Tried searching without luck. Can anyone either help me find the link or have some tips on some quick turnover t&a's. Thanks in advance.

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I think all you need to do is change the "gasforums" to just "forums." So,

http://gasforums.studentdoctor.net/showthread.php?t=396882 (I can't make this link not shorten itself, but it looks identical to the lower one except for the "gasforums" part.)

becomes

http://forums.studentdoctor.net/showthread.php?t=396882

If other links don't work, if they're external sites (i.e. not SDN), they may have just come down over time. If there are other SDN links that don't work, I'm not sure how to help.