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hello can anyone give his experience in a trauma surgery elective? what are the nature of cases and how to prepare
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Read the section on trauma in Pestana's notes. You'll see a lot of bread and butter surgical cases as well if your hospital has this service function as more of a general surgery service as well (depends on the hospital)-- lap choles, hernia repairs, etc. Study your vascular anatomy, particularly of the abdomen, surgeons love to pimp on that. Get your sleep in now, trauma calls can be rough.
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some hospitals combine trauma + emergency general surgery. Some do ONLY trauma.
if your hospital combines - you'll see a lot of lap choleys, lap appies, maybe some colon/small bowel resections for acute abdomen (diverticulitis, perfed intestines) plus a few trauma cases.
If your hospital is just trauma: read up on trauma, from head to toe. figure out the indications for certain imaging, the indications for going to the OR, how to run a primary survey, what you are looking for when the patient rolls in. If you also round on the patients in the ICU, read up on vents, pressors, sepsis.
if your hospital combines - you'll see a lot of lap choleys, lap appies, maybe some colon/small bowel resections for acute abdomen (diverticulitis, perfed intestines) plus a few trauma cases.
If your hospital is just trauma: read up on trauma, from head to toe. figure out the indications for certain imaging, the indications for going to the OR, how to run a primary survey, what you are looking for when the patient rolls in. If you also round on the patients in the ICU, read up on vents, pressors, sepsis.
