Showing posts with label February 28. Show all posts
Showing posts with label February 28. Show all posts

Saturday, February 28, 2009

Nuggets for February 28

Ah, the last day of the month...and working evenings again! What fun. I can think of better ways to spend my evenings, but in mere days, yours truly will get a vacation....seven days straight away from the big house.

Here are a few things that have been floating around in my world lately. Enjoy them and the rest of your weekend.

Sometimes I think they should call our unit, "Flaps-R-Us." This is a very common surgery to remedy the big bugaboo of rehab nursing (pressure sores) when all else fails. V-y advancement flap is a one way of doing it.

We don't see this much, but someone saw it on an x-ray recently: joint effusion.

Think you're seeing two thumbnails? We had one guy who said this. No, he wasn't losing it, he just has a case of onchomycosis.

Some very interesting lab tests I saw on a heme-onc report that we don't always see: