Does high liver volume make up for lack of trauma?

[deleted171991]

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I will say that this paragraph is a nice summation of why I love anesthesia and am pursuing a career in it.

Cerebral approach to problems with an emphasis on critical thinking

 

[DM27]

You should be comfortable with this if you have done any major OB, emergency craniotomies, emergency aneurysms, stroke embolization.





Crashing ortho and OB should have taught you this



Everything except facial trauma is taught with any reasonable neuro spine training




You should have this experience with major general surgery cases, crashing ortho and OB.



Your other experiences in residency should have prepared you for trauma.

I don't really understand why you quoted/dissected my post about why liver transplant itself is not an appropriate surrogate for trauma and instead just talked about all of the other kinds of cases that can prepare you for it.

If you think the point I am trying to make is that you have to have done traumas in training in order to be able to do traumas as an attending, that is not my opinion at all.

 

[Mikkel]

I don't really understand why you quoted/dissected my post about why liver transplant itself is not an appropriate surrogate for trauma

My whole point is that liver transplant is a terrible surrogate for trauma training. But, if you don't have tons of training in trauma, residency experiences in other areas should be fine.

 

[sleepysloth_md]

No, no... I am at a program with a very high-volume of both. Concepts are similar but situational preparedness and reactiveness are very different in my opinion.