I'm not just the team social media intern! Full day of operating for us today. Got started with an above knee amputation under spinal in a sick diabetic. Then came an elbow reconstruction for an 8 week old Monteggia fracture which was a challenge.
But eventually Dave Johnston was victorious! What was to have been our last case followed, a Moore's for a frail elderly lady with a fractured hip. Again challenging as not all the relevant instruments were present but once more after some improvisation all was well.
Dave Amirault, Keith Neufield and two Haitian residents work on the Moore's.
Unfortunately our night is not over: nasty dogbite has to be sorted by Marti LeBlanc. Poor woman has sustained a radial fracture as well as damage to the thumb. At this rate dinner will be a late take out brought back from the UN!
Tomorrow Kwesi and I turn into a Paediatric Anaesthetist as we have a 3 month old Spina Bifida patient for a skin graft and have been roped into doing a revision colostomy in a 2 and a half year old as the Haitian staff will be tied up with a chronic subdural. Maybe we will get to do some Ortho cases after!
Anaesthesia viewpoint
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