Clinical update

This semester is flying by!!! Mostly doing the same things. We've had more extremities. I finally got to see a PE Chest the other day and we did two HR chests the other day also. Those are few and far between. But otherwise all is going well.

clinicals update

I really wish I had something thrilling to say. But I don't. I'm getting kinda bored, I definitely think working in a hospital would be more exciting.

clinicals

Well, there definitely has been nothing exciting going on the same old thing just a different day. Still in an out patient center with all walking and talking patients, albei busy.

AAA

The other day at clinicals I saw a very large AAA, it was 10.5cm x 9.4 cm. The patient was complaing of back pain.

More Pathology

I have seen a couple more masses in the chest that are cancerous per the MD, I saw a very large cyst ( I think it was roughly 7x7cm) on a patients kidney the other day also.
It's been a very productive semester, I've learned a lot.

Finally!!! Pathology

Yesterday I finally saw a pathology after all these weeks. It was on an older woman who was complaining of SOB and was in for a chest xray, the xray tech showed the films to the radiologist because she had a huge area in her upper left lung that looked like a mass. The radiologist called over to see if we could do a scan on her while she was here so we did. She had a CT of the chest with IV contrast, she had a huge mass like I said in the left lung that enhanced after injection. The radiologist believes that this mass more than likely is cancerous.

I like my clinical's and am learning a lot and on ideal patients all walking and talking (out patient center) the only drawback is I definitely do not see a lot of pathology.

clinical update

I wish I had more to say, but not much out of the ordinary has gone on. Again, doing my clinicals in an outpatient clinic, not seeing much pathology, but definitely getting good scanning experience.