Full House

 
It's almost 11pm, and for the first time today, I feel caught up in my work. No orders to enter. No results to follow up. It's a hectic day. There are 3 of us residents on the team, and one resident left post-call at 8am today (that'll be me tomorrow), one went to clinic, which left me here today to hold down the team by myself. We have 2 kids on oscillator vents. I'm a bit rusty on managing vents, so it's been a lot of work today. But there is a small sense of gratification knowing that kids are in pretty good shape for the night. 
 
Went to a delivery where a baby was born breach. Ended up having to almost intubate the kiddo, but he perked up nicely with lots of vigorous stimulation.
 
I met up with a friend and walked down to the medicine call room, and whoa, full house. 3 other med-peds residents, one of whom is on call for pediatrics. So, the admit residents for NICU, Medicine Wards, and Pediatrics are all med-peds residents tonight. Kind of nice knowing they are around. And our chief resident is there, finishing up late admissions as well. Medicine is behind 7 admission, Pediatrics is caught up, but I hear they are full, and the PICU is filling up as well. I offered to help, but being in NICU kind of tough to be that far away from the NICU for long.
 
Well, going to go follow up a few blood gas results, maybe make a fine-tune adjustment to a vent or two, and then get caught up on some reading.

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