First few baby steps in Intensive Care Medicine

03Apr09

Hello world (and hello myself!)

The first couple of days in ITU have been a readjustment from the busy on-calls of being a surgical senior house officer, and I simply couldn’t deal with being at one place at a slower physical pace, but quicker mental pace.  I am however glad to have the neurons firing again, in a conducive atmosphere.  I reckon my dress sense will suffer since I pretty much am in scrubs 24/7.

ITU after quadruple bypass surgery

I could have done with a couple of days off after the harsh on-calls, getting bleeped left right and centre to see and manage 5-10 patients at a time.  The two days on-call resulted in 1 urological admission, and 2 general surgical/vascular which ends up sounding pretty unrepresentatively benign.  I was exhausted, and the last 48 hours were a tough survival run for my body and mind.

The net is a wonderful place, and I’m pretty damn glad to be part of this information age.  Easy way to kick start myself in acid-base physiology and breathing circuits.

Other valuable Intensive care medicine sources:

CCM Tutorials

FRCA UK

and wikipedia proves itself invaluable!  God bless the steady state of mass knowledge.

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