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January 27, 2010

PENN MEDICINE In Haiti -- Dispatch 6

January 27, 2010 14:03

Subject: Surgery has started

 

All patients we are operating on who are not in the building the ORs are located in are transported to the building, leading to patients everywhere.

 

We are running 2 rooms. The 2 ortho docs are doing their thing in one room, while we have a rather full general surgery schedule in the other. The patient below is our third case. She is a very ill young woman undergoing a cholycystectomy. Tom, 1 of our 2 Anesthesiologists, was recruited to assist. As a result, I am doing anesthesia in both rooms with the wonderful help of the local team.

 

Michael

Operating in Haiti January 27

Posted at 07:04 PM in PENN MEDICINE in Haiti |

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