Surgical Week Pt. 2

I will be posting about the last two days now. (Read first post to get caught up for this post.) I only did 4 days because it made more sense to come home today, and I was able to get 30 hours in 4 days anyway, as we arrived at the hospital around 6:50 and left at about 14:20 Monday, 14:50 Tuesday, 14:00 Wednesday, and a bit after 15:00 on Thursday (not counting saying goodbye to everyone/getting group pictures, which I won’t post all of here because a) it would be a decent amount and b) I want to save some for the presentation.)

Procedures I saw:

Day 3:

• Bilateral (on both sides, in this case hands) treating of carpal tunnel
• Shoulder scope/adding an anchor (which is something that will dissolve and become a piece of what is essentially new bone)/adding a graft of dermis (as not enough rotator cuff was left)/biceps tenodesis (attachment of biceps tendon to humerus)
• Removal of a plate and screws of an ankle

Day 4:

• Bilateral treatment of carpal tunnel
• Two separate procedures (not bilateral) of carpectomy (removing of a carpal/wrist bone) and resectioning of anterior and posterior interosseous nerves (removing parts of these wrist nerves/reattaching them)
• Knee scope/cleaning (no further cutting needed)
• Putting in a plate and screws to fix fractured wrist
• Reattachmemt of tendon of dígitus medius (middle finger)

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Not sure why some pictures are turned weird again.

I had a great experience during this shadowing. No light-headedness, no problems of any kind. I leaned a lot – specifics I will get into during the presentation – and I had a great time. It was sad to go back home. I am very grateful for this experience though. Everyone at the hospital was very kind and them letting me do this was very generous.