Day 3 at Atlantila Hospital

After the whirlwind of red-eye flights and total submersion in Spanish we are able to sit and reflect back on the past 3 days.

Day one consisted of 3 cases starting with an open nephrolithotomy on a 34 y.o female followed by a repair of an undescended testicle on and 8 y.o boy and then an TURP. All of this pretty new to me. Judy just jumped right in and is an excellent surgical circulating nurse. And Jodi can now tell you the names of all of the tools necessary for Urological procedures.

Day 2 we picked up the pace a bit and completed 5 cases; 3 TURP's and open bladder stone removal and a pelvic sling. I actually got to scrub the pelvic sling since our surgical nurse was scrubbed and assisting with the open bladder stone removal in the neighboring room. I was a little nervous but Dr Moore was very patient. I knew what instruments he was asking for except for Alice Clamps(spelling?) But now I know what they are.

Day three(today) we got a break and our surgeon called it a day after 3 patients and we left at 7pm. The first two cases were double procedures. I'm actually too tired to ellaborate any further on the day.

I hope you are all enjoying our blog and look forward to hearing from some of you. We've had two straight days of pretty heavy rain but we were inside for most of it as our lunches are catered and delivered to the hospital. Keeping our fingers crossed for dryer weather for next week.

Cris