Two days ago we were able to see how the "new group" of hospital personnel could respond to a mass casualty situation. It's very difficult, when what you do is surgery, but you only do surgery when people are getting hurt and suffering. So you don't want to be busy for the greater good of man kind, yet you can only read, workout, sleep, eat, and watch shows so much before you wish you had some work to do.
A local incident in our vicinity provided us with something to keep us busy. The tough thing was waiting to see what all was involved. We were first told of a possibility of 20 pts heading our way sometime at 0800. But due to mother nature (sand storm) and political red tape things kept getting delayed. Finally, at 1600 we recieved 12 pts by ground convoy. Talk about controlled chaos.
After the trauma czar evaluated each pt and got an idea as to who were immediate vs. delayed things started rolling and pts were zipped to the OR or taken to the CT scanner for further eval uation. After about 20 min there were 5 pts in the OR with various extremity injuries and abdominal injuries, unfortunately for me there were no facail injuries. But, I was able to find myself in the fracture stabilization procedure of a humerus fracture. The orthopedic surgeon let me place the external fixator device (just a little bigger than a mandibular external fixator!!) That is what is nice with Oral Maxillofacail Surgeons we make decent first assistants!!
I have been able to find the local cross fit group so that has been good. I will send more pics, it is a little painful since I can not get on the internet with my computer and I can not use a jump drive on this computer.
Still trying to get a routine.
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