Stanford

Hi Everyone! I hope everyone is having a great time at their clinical rotations!! So Stanford has been a little crazy!! All of the surgeries are really complex and last for hours (I get at the hospital around 6 and leave normally after 6). I can only watch one surgery a day since the cases last so long. One of the coolest things they do here is something called the "Partner cases." I'm pretty sure this a nation wide study, but I'm not sure what other hospitals participate, so some of you might have heard of this as well! It's an aortic valve replacement that is done through the femoral artery. They don't open the chest and they don't require CPB. We are there on stand-by and it is done in the Cath lab. It's pretty crazy! We currently have an adult on ECMO that had a heart transplant like 4 years ago and now the heart is beginning to fail again. So, I would say those have been the exciting things that have happened this past week!
Stanford loves for me and Brett to create reports on all sorts of stuff, which has been a lot of work! All of the preceptors are actually really friendly and the surgeons are very respectful, no yelling in the OR which is very nice. They call it the "Stanford way" haha
So I don't know what else you guys might be interested in so that's all for now. I hope everyone is doing well and enjoying the hospitals! I miss all of you :)

~Catrina