Monday, November 27, 2006

The chest drainage system

I have encounter this ATRIUM chest drain system when my boyfriend had the pneumothorax a few years ago.
There are 3 chambers in the closed chest drain system.
1 collecting chamber for collecting air, blood and any fluid drained from the thorax.
1 water seal chamber with sterile water to prevent the air from outside entering patient's lung and prevent from re-collapsing of lung.
The suction chamber...of cuz it's for suction.

The drainage system should be placed under the patient's chest to avoid re-indroducing the fluid or air into the lung which afftects lung-expansion.
Make sure there are no kinkling or looping which may cuz tension pneumothorax if the tension accumulate in the thorax and there is no mean to release.
Collect the trocar and the tube of collecting chamber with sterile technique.

Remember to give local anesthesia to the patient when u are introducing the trocar and cannula...
cuz it's a very invasive procedure Posted by Picasa

The tests results are announced

What's worng with me?
B+ only...damn it

life is more stressful...
cuz when u know more, u know u only know a little...
it's so frustrating..

Life is not all about study...
there are lots of things for me to explore...
but should I put my study aside?
it seems it's not possible...
damnit
i hate this feeling so much..

Saturday, November 25, 2006

endocrine disorders

Originally, I wanna finish the endocrine disorders notes but I'm running out of time. I'm very sleepy cuz I woke up at 5am for the hospital practicum. There are still half of it left. I wanna finish the whole stuff by tomorrow cuz I won't have any time to prepare for this.
I also have taken a look on the respiratory failure notes but it's not interesting and I think I need more time to digest and to understand some parts of them.


No stress and take it easy. Cuz I don't want to have endocrine disorders like hyperthyroidism.
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Friday, November 24, 2006

ECG diagnosis

It's crazy....a classmate of mine read this which we are not expected to do
I somehow appreciate somebody can be this hard-working.

The new direction of the blog

Sorry that I have to renew this blog. The blog will become my personal blog which only talks about things happen around me. Thanks for coming to the blog. Posted by Picasa