Attachment in Alex Part 1

Bismillahirrahmanirrahim.

So, it's been 2 days since I was in the Emergency Department. 

How was it? Well, we haven't even been into the ward yet :P 

For the past 2 days, we were doing hands-on, on dummies. 

Among the skills taught were : 

Maintenace of the airway; oral/nasal airway,

How to do the CPR, 

How to insert the cannula, 

(last year, back in Hosp Serdang, I only found branula in wards which is bigger than a cannula & I didn't even have the courage to try and insert one eventhough I had lots of chances to do so)

How to insert the nasogastric tube,

How to do an intramuscular injection,

and the trickiest of all...we learned to do a simple interrupted suture on a simple laceration.

We were sort of rough with the dummies coz well, they're dummies...

and the doctor tutoring us kept on advising, "Do not be so rough with the patient."

It so happens that we are only going to spend 2 days in the emergency ward.

So, it would only be 4 days for us and not 6 as presumed earlier.

I wonder if we would get the chance of going into OT.

Who knows??? I mean, I would have never imagined to be able to go into the OT last year and get to observe the HOD himself do surgery on an orthopaedic patient.

Oh, and I noticed that here in Egypt, they use the term RTA(Road Traffic Accident) instead of MVA(Motor Vehicle Accident). Coz back when I was in the orthopaedic & forensic Dept at Hosp Serdang, both uses the term MVA when the Doctors were discussing cases and also in the patient's history as most of their cases are victims of MVA.

Vocabs:

OT-operation theatre

HOD-Head of Dept

RTA-Road Traffic Accident

MVA-Motor Vehicle Accident

Oropharyngeal tubes.

Cannula; This is the exact specimen we used during the hands-on.

IV cannula being fixated by a cellotape.

This is a branula. It is bigger than a cannula.

Nasogastric tube in a child

Simple interrupted suture

That's it for now. Hopefully, with this attachment, I won't be such a scaredy cat when it comes to having to do skills like for OSCE for example. Just hoping for the best. Currently, couldn't really bring myself to read up on all of our previous lessons in the theorethical years -.-" I have to...or I would suffer later on trying to catch up with the clinical lectures next sem.

I say, If the base of a tower is not concrete and strong, the top would easily tumble and crumble~

N.B. Pictures credit to Google.

Wassalam.