Dear Folks
This is going to be very short as it is quite late-and we have had a long but great day. This was our didactic lecture day and we had 6 hours of lectures!! The residents did 2 presentations in the morning, and then in the afternoon I had my presentation on how to manage cervical spine fractures.
We demonstrated manual in line stabilization for intubating patients with cervical neck fractures, how to log roll patients, and discussed trauma protocols.
In the evening we met up with a wonderful group of surgeons who do international outreach work-headed up by Dr. Patrick. It was great evening of discussion about Rwanda, Uganda and other developing countries. He is working incredibly hard and is the only general surgeon currently in Butare. This means he is on call all of the time. Right now they are teaching residents how to do caesarian sections, and these same residents will go on to train others. If I remember correctly there are only 15 surgeons in the whole country!!
I am heading off to bed but with the permission of the patient have shown my first patient in Africa who had a subclavian block for a humeral fracture-he is sitting straight up with the thumbs up because he has had his surgery done awake, and without pain.
Bye for now
Love
Jennifer
This is going to be very short as it is quite late-and we have had a long but great day. This was our didactic lecture day and we had 6 hours of lectures!! The residents did 2 presentations in the morning, and then in the afternoon I had my presentation on how to manage cervical spine fractures.
We demonstrated manual in line stabilization for intubating patients with cervical neck fractures, how to log roll patients, and discussed trauma protocols.
In the evening we met up with a wonderful group of surgeons who do international outreach work-headed up by Dr. Patrick. It was great evening of discussion about Rwanda, Uganda and other developing countries. He is working incredibly hard and is the only general surgeon currently in Butare. This means he is on call all of the time. Right now they are teaching residents how to do caesarian sections, and these same residents will go on to train others. If I remember correctly there are only 15 surgeons in the whole country!!
I am heading off to bed but with the permission of the patient have shown my first patient in Africa who had a subclavian block for a humeral fracture-he is sitting straight up with the thumbs up because he has had his surgery done awake, and without pain.
Bye for now
Love
Jennifer
Jennifer,
ReplyDeleteYou are wonderful. We are all so proud of you!!!!
xxoo Patty