Wednesday, December 16, 2009
Attachment, Day 3 Well, long day today, so let's see what happened here...Grand Ward Round in the morning. That's where we join a group of doctors going around and discussing the patients' diagnosis and stuff. Lots of use of medical terms so it got hard to follow about halfway in. This was followed shortly by a lecture on Infection Control, which is on stuff I kinda already know.
Most of the day's taken up by Wound Management. We followed a nurse around as she changed the dressings of several patients, while cleaning up any further complications that may have resulted. From what has been seen, abscesses (accumulation of pus, which causes inflammation) aplenty, and so there's plenty of pus drainage and extraction of necrotic tissue (dead flesh).
One notable patient was one who was subject to cancer on the scalp. They had to remove the surface tissue off his scalp (and also the rest of his hair), while also taking some flesh from the back as a graft. That one failed though, so that patient's got dressing where his hair would be, along with an incision wound down the back where they took flesh to graft. Whoa.
So, yeah, wound management is not for the faint of heart, as the patients may get pretty messed up depending on the condition and location.
Next up tomorrow is attachment to clinical doctors... haven't I done something like this before?
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