Stan

There was this one really cool dummy called Stan who was a simulated patient. He had breath, bowek, and heart sounds, pulses, you could draw blood, give him an allergic reaction, and monitor his stats on a monitor. You can cause all kinds of disasters at the click of a mouse, and my group tried to resuscitate him when he went into cardiac arrest. We did CPR but he "died" anyway. Darn,
I can't even keep an inanimite object alive.

Intubation for dummies

When I got to the intubation station with the 3 other girls in my group we saw half of a dummy. He had a head, neck, lungs, and stomach. We named him Billy-Bob. LOL. I asked why he had a stomach if we were just practicing lung intubation, and the doctor said one of us would probably find out. I did. The first time I put the tube in it went down his esophogus rather than his trachea. When we pumped air in, his stomach filled with air. Not good. The second try I stuck the tube in too far. Only the right lung was filled with air. Again, not good. Finally on the third try I got it right. Maybe I shouldn't go into ER after all. Hmmmmm...

Test Dummies

At camp today we had an afternoon class and we went to 6 different stations and learned how to do different medical procedures. Below are the stations and what we did at each. Each station had a test dummy with which we saw how they did the different procedures.

1. Tracheoectomy- we learned the basics of placing a tube in the trachea and suctioning and cleaning it out.
   
2. Basic Physical- Used a doppler to hear heart sounds, tested reflexes, and used a tuning fork to test hearing.
3. IV's, Catheters, and Scopes- saw how to put in an IV and a catheter, experimented with otoscopes and opthomoscopes.
4. Ventilators and Resusitation- they hooked us up to a ventilator and showed us how it worked.
5. Intubation-How to put a tube in the throat.
   
6. Stan- a very cool simulated patient in an ER environment. He died on us however
   

I luv med school

If any of you read my dad's blog you know that I am attending Camp Mount Carmel this week. I get to do a ton of stuff like scrub in for surgery and all that good stuff. We took a tour of the hospital today and we looked at the Trauma, OB, Neonate, Ambulatory, Pathology and Hemotology Lab, and then met a bunch of surgical students who did a class for us in the afternoon. It was a very fun experience fo ranyone who wants to go into the medical field.