Monthly Archives: April 2011

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Just want to say thanks to all who I had the pleasure to work in Haiti, you were an awesome team and I learned tons from all of you! Also, thanks to all those who have donated for the multiple … Continue reading →

chest followed by my first chest tube. She’s still bleeding and we’ve been waiting 3 hours for an endoscopy. Don’t know if shell make it but will try.

ck with meds/cpr. Took her for xray and her heart stopped again and got her back. She had a pneumothorax as well and I ended up putting a needle in her

Omg. 15 yo female came in vomiting blood and stopped breathing. I intubated her with a pool of blood in her throat. Then her heart stopped which I got ba

ver I’m watching as well. Thank god for the oxford handbook of tropical medicine.

Tough day. Had to declare brain death on a 5 year old with cholera and withdraw care. Had a severe case of thyphoid and kidney failure. Got a dengue fe

Just got off the phone with my wife and a Gun shot wound to the neck came in. Lucky guy had a through and through wound with no injury to his vessels on my ultrasound!

ng. Withdrew care on two others who died and tons more. Sleeping about 4 hours a night but having a great time helping Haiti.

Busy couple of days. 5 babies delivered, one post partum hemmorhage which required internal massage. Had a mega code on a trauma patient who ended up dyi