Thoracic procedures

[Piebaldi]

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That’s just part of training at a place that has lots of attendings. For now you learn how each one wants you to do it, and you do it their way when you’re with them. Once you are toward the end of your year, or out on your own, you decide which way you like best and do it that way. One attending bent his needles the opposite of how almost everyone else does it, and it took some getting used to.

Yes absolutely - that's even what one person told me - this is how I do it but you'll probably have your own system of doing things when you are out on your own. I guess I am getting anxious - what if I don't get the hang of it, what if i'm terrible at it. sigh.

 

[Ducttape]

my 2 cents - you should try the techniques that they show you.

one of them will come naturally to you.

more important from a learning perspective, from my standpoint, is to get the "feel" of how to drive the needle to get to where it has to be.

and... most of your learning how to perform a procedure correctly will actually be after you start your practice.

 

[Ferrismonk]

Furman's atlas, chapter 2. Needle Techniques