Paediatrics

my oh my!

i was looking through my last blog post, and realised that i had started posting for paeds on the 1st day of duty. my plan was to update with cute baby pics daily.

what paeds turned out to be, i was totally unprepared for!

this was one of the busiest duties i have done. i knew it was to be busy, friends had warned. what i didnt know, was how busy your emotional senses are going to be!

it was a whirlwind 2 weeks, highs and lows, saved lives and lost lives, cute kids and ugly kids, kind nurses and devilish ones! all in 2 weeks.

what i learned in 2 weeks i could never learn in 6 months of commed posting ! (we only have 3 months)

there was this one particular day, we lost two kids! one of them was from the NICU and i was on duty with ankur then. it was a sad sad day for me. that day mansi was in the ward and she lost a kid under her too. we shared our sorrow, and it helped.

that very day, i had seen our MO dr.shankar help save a life in the ER performing resuscitation. i saw it all - flat line on the ECG, CPR, Defibrillation and all. for over half an hour, guys worked on him and he survived! it was a rewarding feeling just witnessing that!

when i came back to the NICU, i discovered to my shock, that one of the sick twins had died!!

i couldnt hold my tears looking through its file, the notes i had entered, the charts i had filled. this was too sudden for me. how quickly the kid died. i imagined the twin who still lived, he would grow up to discover his brother died . terrible terrible feeling.

somehow i got through the night. trying to hide the hurt i was feeling inside. you cant help but get attached to these children you look after. they seem like your own. it is terrible when the die. it is.

soon, i overcame and moved on to ward duty. 1 week was up and 1 to go. sambhav seemed so dogged by ward duty, it wasnt what he made it out to be. and surprisingly he was so carefree during his NICU, which wasnt so slack when i was there. weird. but that is sam's middle name.

anyway, worked with mansi and ankur in the ward too, lovely people to work with. couldnt have asked for better! they work with the right spirit, which i have to say, is scarce nowadays.

it came up to 3-4 kids per intern to manage, as a lot more juniors joined and made our life easy.

i learned how to catheterise a vein in a neonate! managed it in the 1st shot!! :) and talking about 1st shots, i did a Lumbar Puncture yesterday (that is putting a needle through the gap in the vertebrae and collecting the fluid that comes out for study), and got it in the 1st shot as well! thankyou :) . thanks to dr. Deepak who offered me to do it, otherwise i was quite sad i would have missed out.

i learned the neonatal resuscitation in routine newborns as soon as they are born! I've put a nasogastric tube in one newborn too!

overall satisfied by the skill-acquisition.

thank god it was only 2 weeks, how much can one take?! yesterday was my last night duty and we had 8 admissions!!!

so much work! phew, did it, its over. yehhhhhhh :)

thank you paediatrics. did learn quite a lot. it definitely broadened my horizon.

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