{"id":635,"date":"2010-12-06T23:34:00","date_gmt":"2010-12-07T04:34:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mindonmed.com\/2010\/12\/im-now-a-pro-at-ivs-foleys-ng-tubes.html"},"modified":"2010-12-06T23:34:00","modified_gmt":"2010-12-07T04:34:00","slug":"im-now-a-pro-at-ivs-foleys-ng-tubes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/old.mindonmed.com\/2010\/12\/im-now-a-pro-at-ivs-foleys-ng-tubes.html","title":{"rendered":"I’m Now A Pro At IVs, Foleys, & NG Tubes…."},"content":{"rendered":"

assuming my patients meet a few criterion:<\/span><\/p>\n

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  1. Patient is made of plastic.<\/span><\/li>\n
  2. Patient consists of only the body part I need.<\/span><\/li>\n
  3. Patient is unable to move. <\/span><\/li>\n
  4. Patient is not breathing.\n

    <\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    Today we had a workshop, hosted by the Emergency Medicine club, to learn how to place IVs, insert Foley catheters and introduce NG tubes.* Several of the nurses from our ER volunteered to meet us down at the brand-spanking new (very expensive!) SimLife<\/i> Center<\/a> and teach us these skills. We would be nothing without nurses who were willing to help us, it’s amazing how little clinically-relevant\/procedural skills we learn in the first two years of medical school.<\/span><\/p>\n


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    These <\/span>mannequins are really cool<\/a>, y’all. Some of them have pupillary reflexes, cry, have blood in their veins, mimic heart murmurs, respond to medications, all kinds of stuff. One of them even gives birth<\/a>! To a mannequin baby!! <\/span><\/p>\n
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    <\/span><\/div>\n\n\n\n\n
    <\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
    Ashley – Inserting IV into Severed Arm Man<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n
    <\/div>\n\n\n\n\n
    <\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
    Me – Inserting Foley Catheter into Truncal Woman<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

    <\/span><\/div>\n\n\n\n\n
    <\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
    Eva and MS1 I Don’t Know –
    Learning to Insert NG Tube<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n
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    So here are a few tricks of the trade they I learned today:<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n

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    1. Feel for veins with the pads of your fingers, not your thumb.<\/span><\/span><\/li>\n

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    2. \n
      Never pull the catheter out without deflating the balloon or<\/span><\/div>\n

      <\/p>\n

      your patient will kick you and you will deserve it. <\/div>\n

      <\/span><\/li>\n

    3. \n
      Get a good grip on the – <\/span>ahem <\/i><\/span>– apparatus when inserting<\/span><\/div>\n

      <\/p>\n

      a Foley catheter into a male patient.<\/div>\n

      <\/span><\/li>\n

    4. Lube….use it….liberally….to prevent angry patients.<\/span><\/li>\n
    5. \n
      Tell your patients what you’re doing….even if they are<\/span><\/div>\n

      <\/p>\n

      unconscious (or pretending to be uncouscious).<\/div>\n
      <\/div>\n

      <\/span><\/li>\n

      <\/span><\/ol>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

      So these aren’t very difficult procedures, but I’m happy we had nice nurses willing to teach us in a non-stressful situation where we couldn’t hurt anyone. <\/span><\/div>\n

      <\/span><\/div>\n\n\n\n\n
      <\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
      Plus if you stick around long enough, you might even
      stumble upon a little blue box full of nice, plastic vaginas.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

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      *For the non-medical <\/span>geeks<\/s><\/span> people out there: IVs = Thing they stick in your arm at the hospital to make administration of drugs easier, Foley Catheter = Thing that drains your pee, NG tube = Tube through your nose and into your stomach to pump things out or put things in.<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

      assuming my patients meet a few criterion: Patient is made of plastic. Patient consists of only the body part I need. Patient is unable to move.  Patient is not breathing. Today we had a workshop, hosted by the Emergency Medicine club, to learn how to place IVs, insert Foley catheters and introduce NG tubes.* Several […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":636,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[37],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/old.mindonmed.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/635"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/old.mindonmed.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/old.mindonmed.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/old.mindonmed.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/old.mindonmed.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=635"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/old.mindonmed.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/635\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/old.mindonmed.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/636"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/old.mindonmed.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=635"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/old.mindonmed.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=635"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/old.mindonmed.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=635"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}