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astralboy · Credits: 8902 My Scrapbook

There is one big thing about internship... the ability to save lives... for real!

There are x-tards who joined engineering (where x can be anything from ba$, re, wreck) who earn more and consequently have an air of supremacy around them... the way they talk to us... etc.. huh... but they can never be superheroes like us... they have never the opportunity to save so many lives than we did in our interships

Everyone please post atleast one (of the many instances) instance of your heroics at internship which led to some person's life being saved....
Also tell where and when you did internship...

astralboy · Credits: 8902 My Scrapbook

hmm, I will start of with one of mine
I did internship in the hospitals attached to Bangalore Medical college,
Victoria Hospital, Vanivilas womens' and childrens hop

In second fortnight of Nov 2006, i was in the eclampsia labor room for night duty.. One lady had PIH and placenta was retained. My PG was ill and since I had done lots of Manual Removal of Placenta before I attempted it again... hmmm.. when I did that, my hand kept going inside the uterus, there seemed to be an anomaly... placenta couldnt be pulled out as there seemed to be a narrow isthmus through which it was constricted... and this isthmus was well above the level of her umbilicus, so informed the senior specialist duty doctor who took her for laparotomy. Then the same night, she required post-op blood transfusion and so did another patient in the same ward. My PG told me to inform the nurse to be extra careful about not-mixing the blood... but for some reason.. seems she did it anyway... later in the night... this post-op lady was shivering... and there.... she was being transfused with A +ve blood and her O+VE blood was being given to the other lady>>> I immediately stopped the transfusion and pushed s.c adrenaline and iv pheniramine and iv hydrocortisone and she was stabilised... ( should note that the pt who had recieved O+ve instead of A+ve was totally asymptomatic, but gave her a pheniramine too)...

Then... there was no time to scold the nurse too... patient after patient kept coming all night...

So... couple of lives saved!

One more memorable achievement...
Our burns ward is very busy... atleast 50-60 patients are always in...

interns get alloted patients and all care of that particular patient is mine...

I took care of a patient with 58%burns , with facial and respiratory burns too.... and resucitated him out of two episodes of septecimic shock and he survived... really happy... (in contrast to some interns who were too much into their PG preparations and pts with as less as 24 and 20 % burns under their care died... still can say those deaths could be multifactorial... however... sad that I am not a PG yet... )

harshadbhai · Credits: 37358 My Scrapbook

Nice thread!
I did internshp in govt. Medical college, Nanded. Maharashtra .
...
On a single night duty i made 10 babies to enter in the world!!
But the last one was very interesting..
A lady came, at 3am, in labour, i took her on table, and started to exm. She was havng contractn.
I palpated her bulged membranes coming down in speed.
I askd nurse for the needle to rupture the memb..
And soon...
It had a blast! A big blast... The membranes came down at d opening and bursted on me!
My hairs, face, spects, apron soaked in it!

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