Wednesday, October 03, 2007

Young at Heart

Or young, with old hearts may be more appropriate. I wish I could count the number of times somebody has remarked recently on how YOUNG our patients are right now. 39, 41, 42.. all in the Cardiac ICU on vents.

On call last night. Decent night.

Couldn't fall asleep cause one of the patients, who was stable, had some issues that were perplexing, and all night long I fought the urge to CT him (my clinical exam gave no indication for the CT), but then I caved at 6am hoping that the CT would give some miraculous insight into what was going on.. and alas the images didn't have the answer.

B