You guys, I'm currently working at a university, and that means:
1) About 85-90% of my work conversations include some permutation of the phrase: "But did you read the paper/study that showed (whatever)?"
Usually this is followed by, "No," which is then followed by "I'll send it to you/print it for you."
2) Everyone is very, very impressed if you can quote the authors when you're quoting a study to prove a point. At this point, I'm just excited if I can remember the study.
3) Stuuuuuuudents! Vet students are awesome. But seriously, you guys:
- Someone may care if you appear to be fire-stormingly fascinated with (whatever rotation you're on), but that person is not me. I know that those of you who are gonna be cow vets are probably about as interested in the intimate details of the canine cutaneous mast cell tumor prognostic panel as I am in the intimate details of synching herd ovulation: not much. You don't have to fake it.
- Don't let anyone make you feel small if you don't know the answer to a question. There is so much to know that you cannot possibly know it all. BUT it totally behooves you to look that shit up and recon with the person who was quizzing you when you DO know the answer.
- Sleep is really, really important. Take advantage of all opportunities to sleep. Sleeping is magical.
4) Ultrasounds take at least 45 minutes, sometimes over an hour. Also, everyone looks at you like it's your fault when the sedation wears off or the patient loses patience.
5) Appointments regularly take 6+ hours. I am not even kidding. If you're bringing your pet to a university for a consult, plan for it to be a day's event.
6) The anesthesia department is absolutely not fucking around. Neither is the ICU staff.
7) Some sort of conference, thesis defense, or guest lecture is always happening. I get e-mails about all of them. Sometimes there is food involved.
8) There are six or seven different on-call schedules for various situations that may happen in the night or over a weekend. They are all posted in different places and are varying degrees of accurate.
9) A parade of work-study students and residents wander by the oncology department at regular intervals. They ask for blood and/or urine samples from particular patients who have diseases that are relevant to their research.
10) There is so much hand sanitizer.
Showing posts with label anesthesia. Show all posts
Showing posts with label anesthesia. Show all posts
anesthesia is not fucking around today:
Anesthetizing a horse can be somewhat exciting, mainly because it involves a horse going to sleep suddenly and laying down. There's a way to do it so it mostly happens without incident:
1. Sedate the horse, rinse out his mouth.
2. Position the horse against a padded wall.
3. Rope on the head, rope on the tail. These ropes go through rings in the wall.
4. Anesthesia injects the valium and the ketamine.
5. Someone raises the horse's head.
6. Person on the head rope sits on the rope, holds the tension as the horse gently slides down the wall into a "sitting" position.
7. Person on the tail rope pulls as the horse sits.
8. Flop the horse over, anesthesia intubates, etc.
So we're anesthetizing a horse for colic surgery, and I'm on the head rope. The anesthesia resident turns to me, and we have this conversation:
Resident: "Do you know what you're doing on the head rope?"
Me: "Yes."
Resident: "Well, you have to tell me exactly what you're going to do. You know, students will tell you that they know what they're doing when they actually have no idea."
Me: "You're going to induce him and raise his head. I'm going to sit on this rope and hold the tension while he slides down the wall."
Resident: "Oh...okay, you DO know."
1. Sedate the horse, rinse out his mouth.
2. Position the horse against a padded wall.
3. Rope on the head, rope on the tail. These ropes go through rings in the wall.
4. Anesthesia injects the valium and the ketamine.
5. Someone raises the horse's head.
6. Person on the head rope sits on the rope, holds the tension as the horse gently slides down the wall into a "sitting" position.
7. Person on the tail rope pulls as the horse sits.
8. Flop the horse over, anesthesia intubates, etc.
So we're anesthetizing a horse for colic surgery, and I'm on the head rope. The anesthesia resident turns to me, and we have this conversation:
Resident: "Do you know what you're doing on the head rope?"
Me: "Yes."
Resident: "Well, you have to tell me exactly what you're going to do. You know, students will tell you that they know what they're doing when they actually have no idea."
Me: "You're going to induce him and raise his head. I'm going to sit on this rope and hold the tension while he slides down the wall."
Resident: "Oh...okay, you DO know."
conversation between surgeons:
Two surgeons are preparing for a skate surgery, which is a surgery where the animal is euthanized at the end after the surgical residents practice techniques.
The animal in question is a horse donated for the teaching lameness course who has a penchant for kicking students.
Surgeon 1: "I'll just anesthetize the horse myself. What's the worst that could happen?"
Surgeon 2: "...the horse could wake up during surgery, destroy all the surgery lights, leap off the table, and run around the surgical suite?"
Surgeon 1: "Okay, I'll get one of the anesthesia students to do it."
The animal in question is a horse donated for the teaching lameness course who has a penchant for kicking students.
Surgeon 1: "I'll just anesthetize the horse myself. What's the worst that could happen?"
Surgeon 2: "...the horse could wake up during surgery, destroy all the surgery lights, leap off the table, and run around the surgical suite?"
Surgeon 1: "Okay, I'll get one of the anesthesia students to do it."
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