Memorable Trauma Surgery Cases:
- Lung herniation after biopsy- yup, it popped out with valsalva!
- Foot amputation - I sawed off the fibula!
- Self-inflicted gun-shot wound (GSW) - unsuccessful suicide attempt + VATS (video assisted thoracoscopic surgery)
- Suicide by cops: got cops to go on high speed car chase, then pointed gun at cops so they would shoot him.
- Complete retrograde amnesia after motor vehicle crash (MVC)
- Complete humerus head fracture (humerus head in socket, but rest anterior to shoulder)
- Getting to be first assist on a colostomy (Bovie to clean off colon, manipulate the sigmoid colon, suture opening of colostomy to skin, mayo's to cut, subq umbilicus, cauterize vessels...) Simple but fun stuff!
- GSW to abdomen through liver, transverse colon, small bowel (3 resections), sigmoid colon, bladder, landed in leg)
- Extensive groin/thigh wound about 2'x1.5'x1' triangle. See muscle, tendons, and all.
- Never been more physically touched by a patient before: when asked how abd pain felt, she closed her hands into fists and gave my stomach a double nuggie.
- Sewing a skin graft down (okay...mini one that was gonna be thrown away any ways)
- Muscular dystrophy + wound vac - very sad case :(
- First encounter with 2nd degree burns: removing/debriding the bullae.
- Retired football player.
- Cop getting shot by two 18 year olds & on news
- Appendiceal mucinous cystadenocarcinoma + right hemicolectomy
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