Promoting Best Anesthetic Practices in Ho Chi Minh City: Part 2

Today concludes my second and final week in Vietnam (read about Part 1 of my adventure here!).  Our Monday morning started off with a healthy patient having a significant facial reconstruction procedure for injuries sustained in a motorbike collision.  Using an arterial line and an experimental...

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Because sometimes laughter conveys a message better than fear...

This builds on my smaller page of MERS-CoV themed wannabe memes found here. These were all made by me but feel free to use if they suit a purpose (a link/reference would be appreciated thoug...

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Interns strike at MRRH, Mbarara, Uganda

April 27, 2015Mondays on the wards here are always a little harried.  No one rounds over the weekend so come Monday morning you often find patients who were admitted over the weekend that little was done for, old patients whose care wasn�t progressed for two days, and beds that used to be filled with sick patients that are now empty.  Often no one knows what happened to these patients. ...

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Promoting Best Anesthetic Practices in Ho Chi Minh City: Part 1

Hello readers!  I�m Jamie, one of the anesthesia residents at Massachusetts General Hospital in my final year of training.  I�m on a two week medical mission to Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, accompanied by attending pediatric anesthesiologist Dr. Denman.  We just finished the first week...

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