Critical Care and Emergency Medicine

[drwildlife]

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So, I'm starting a job at an Emergency Clinic this Sunday. Yikes. I am really excited about it but, kind of nervous considering I have been a slow paced surgery technician for the past few years.

Does anyone know of any handy guides or books out there that I could buy to learn more about emergency medicine? Something like a tech guide to accepting/presenting patients?

 

[sunnex3]

hi drwildlife! i currently work as an ICU/ER nurse at a busy referral hospital in the DC area, if you have any questions about working as an ICU/ER veterinary nurse just shoot me a PM.

i have some books that i can suggest for you, i'll PM you those later when i can get the full info for them.

 

[OwlandPussycat]

hi drwildlife! i currently work as an ICU/ER nurse at a busy referral hospital in the DC area, if you have any questions about working as an ICU/ER veterinary nurse just shoot me a PM.

i have some books that i can suggest for you, i'll PM you those later when i can get the full info for them.

I'm also curious about your book suggestions, if you feel like posting them publicly.

 

[Alhazred]

I'm also curious about your book suggestions, if you feel like posting them publicly.

Second.

 

[sunnex3]

yes of course i will post them publicly!!! 🙂

will post tonight when i get back from work, i just have to look up the authors and stuff.

 

[kakurubird]

I'm really curious also sunnex, but just as importantly, I love your cavalier dinosaur icon! So cute!
Every single cavalier I've met ever has been an absolute bundle of love and kisses and I get really excited now when I see one on the schedule. Except it seems that more than half of the time they come in pairs? (Which is fine with me: twice the love and adorableness!)

 

[bayarea15]

Can't wait to hear about emergency! I work at a small animal hosp as kennel and am bored out of my mind. Congrats!

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[squirrelsrule]

Emergency med. is definitely not boring. I enjoyed the variety in the cases and all, but I am NOT a night person and overall had a horrible experience at the clinic I worked, not the job, just the people and the hours 👎. Working emergency was my FIRST job in the vet field, I was like 😱 what did I get myself into when I started, but I caught on quick. I was new to everything vet med. Didn't know how to run bloodwork, prep for surgery, anything, and I figured it all out and survived, so I'm sure you'll do good.

 

[sunshinevet]

Brush up on your arrest protocols.

In general arrest happens so infrequently in GP that most people just go through the basics, but in emergency you'll be dealing with it again and again and again and you need to be able to iniate the sequence pretty much without thinking - though this comes with practice (and it will probably be a more advanced sequence). So first thing I would do when you get there is ask for a list of all the protocols they have and memorize them as well as you can.

I love emergency!