Prehouseman Attachment at USM (Day 14)

Assalamualaikum dan semoga kita sentiasa berada dibawah lindungaNya Amin :

Our first day elective posting at Surgery Department.

1)Met HOD of Surgery Department USM (Prof Zaidi)

-Introduce ourself to him
-He sugggested what should we do here and places that we can go and learn.
-Gave some advice regarding the Hoship
:The most important during Hoship is attitude. (Having strong passion in this profession, willing to learn and not make any problem)
:Before taking decision to resign (quit) from this profession (Nauzubillah) think well about our aims, family conditions and their hopes.

2) Met Ketua Jururawat (KJ) at ward 2 Intan.

-He divided us into few sections.
-I was placed in bilik ESWL (operation room) to observe the procedure and operation.

3)Went to bilik ESWL. Meet Prof Hafizi and HO,Dr Athikah.

-Dr Athikah explained to us about role of HOs in operation rooms.
:assign the surgeons to do the operation before and after such as inserting CBD, taking blood, retracting, write details of patients on the white board, document post operation review and etc.

4)Observed few operations such as:

-antegrade pyelography
-flex ve
-decompression T10/T11 + mass excision + post. instrumentation T8/T9/T10/T11
(Diagnosis is T10/T11 spinal cord compression and gouty arthritis with cutaneous tophi)