A Student Diary: To View all Diary Entries- Click Here UPDATE: January 10, 2012 Thank you to all the readers of this blog. However, the further I have gotten into school things have come up that would make me a dead give away to talk about. This would mean keeping it anonymous is virtually impossible […]
A Student Diary: To View all Diary Entries- Click Here A Jungle of Information & Putting it Together I have been very busy with school. I have had multiple papers, projects and tests over the last few weeks. On top of that I am pumping cases, reading/studying and when I get a chance sleeping. School […]
A Student Diary: To View all Diary Entries- Click Here So It Begins… Well it has been a few weeks since I have written and entry. I have become incredibly busy. Between tests, studying/reading to keep up and being in the operating room I find time to sit and watch some tv or sleep. School is […]
A Student Diary: To View all Diary Entries- Click Here Wet Labs & Simulations So over the last few weeks I have had a few things on my plate. I had my first test and did just fine on that. However, observations have dropped off a little. I did have the opportunity to observe a […]
A Student Diary: To View all Diary Entries- Click Here Getting My Feet Wet: Well I am finally getting into the meat of my program. I have already seen a rather diverse case load. I would say the coolest thing I have seen so far is a heart transplant. I had seen a lot of […]
A STUDENT DIARY To View all Diary Entries- Click Here Introduction to My Program… I have moved to my new location and was lucky enough to get along with another candidate at the interview process that also got in to the program. So we moved in and started exploring our new surrounding about a week […]
A Student Diary: To View all Diary Entries- Click Here LOOKING AT PERFUSION SCHOOLS Like I have already mentioned I was accepted at my first and second choice schools. My first interview was with my second choice school and so I turned down all other interviews except with my number one choice school. I remember […]
A Student Diary: To View all Diary Entries- Click Here SHADOWING I can say with confidence that I probably had way more experience than most applicants to perfusion school. Obviously, I was still in college, so some may have more because of age or already working around a perfusionist, but I put over a year […]
A Student Diary: To View all Diary Entries- Click Here My Bio: I was asked to write about my experience as a perfusion student. I am posting a perfusion diary relating that experience from beginning to end. I have chosen to stay anonymous and any people, schools or groups I talk about shall also remain […]
Viscosity: (Keeping it Brief…) How far do we HemoDilute? I got into a discussion with a colleague of mine who was going to relieve me during an aortic reconstruction case that would require Deep Hypothermic Circulatory Arrest (DHCA). Hypothermia even when mild (34°-36°C) is established to reduce cerebral metabolism and allows the brain to tolerate […]
Perfusion Notes: (Keeping it Brief…) Hypothermia even when mild (34°-36°C) is established to reduce cerebral metabolism and allows the brain to tolerate longer periods of hypoperfusion or ischemia. Embolization of air or particulate matter represents one of the most significant hazards for cerebral insult to the patient undergoing CPB. It is important to note that […]