Vascular? No thanks o_o

[poplitea]

 Got to go down to the hybrid room today! It’s specialized with a lot of x-ray equipment to be able to do angiographic surgery. The first patient was an 80 year old male with stage 5 kidney failure who needed work done on his arteriovenous fistula which had a severe stricture.

So. Got to work with 2 new vascular surgeons who were actually rather nice if a bit annoying. They have these glasses with intense magnifiers on them to be able to see what they’re actually doing but because of their very limited field of view they pile up instruments which I have to somehow retrieve and keep in order while they ask for ones literally 2 cm away from their own hand.

And I’m not very fond of vascular surgery. To itty bitty everything and risk of catastrophic errors o_o

Number 2 was very old, very sick and very confused lady with bleeding oesophageal varicose veins which we got to shoot glue into. That glue was some strong stuff. The drops we spilled are never going to go away.