lap-chole

laparotomy cholecystectomy :). say that 5x fast. I don't know about you, but its pretty difficult for me. At clinicals yesterday, I got aggressive, or ascertive about wanting to get into the operating room. We had a lap-chole, which was supposed to take about an hr. The procudure is a non-invasive surgery where the surgeon removes the gallbladder using small incisions on the abdomen area and fishing his way through using a high-tech camera scope. before we got in there, surgeons started yelling at our O.R. tech because of the radiology department being short staffed. We had three techs scheduled. 1 for the emergency room, one for the radiology department downstairs and one for the O.R. got pretty hectic but the tech i was with just kept his cool. very professional of him to do that. so things worked out and the procedure started. about an hr after we started, doctor said we needed to open her up because the procedure was more complicated than it was. Then they did, I got to observe them work around the underlying anatomy and see everything live. I remember watching a lot of this stuff on discovery channel, my mom would tell me to change the channel because of how gross it was. Now I stand behind the table watching it live. pretty insane. she ended up losing 2.5L of blood or more. it was pretty crazy. I'm glad I got in there to observe everything. Out came the gallbladder with a couple of stones that had to be remove from the biliary tract. Pretty crazy for my first O.R. procedure. I have yet to be yelled at by the o.r. staff. hopefully i can be "thick skinned" about it and just keep my cool.