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Sep. 13th, 2008 03:27 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
squeefulfishMonday week I'm back on the wards. In gynae. Pre- and post- surgical cases so I'm going to go over some stuff that came up during my theatre placement last year. Though I have to admit that I don't remember an awful lot of theatre, simply because I was off my face on drugs of the prescription painkiller variety. I should be reading about hysterectomies or D+Cs or lap+dyes or myomectomies or tubal ligatures or any of the millions of things that I need to know about. Like intrauterine deaths. The universe's sense of humour is not something I'm appreciating right now. Only 6 shifts though, and I can do anything for 6 shifts. Two long and one short day per week. Don't dare say I have it easy, a long day is 0730 - 2030 and a short day is still 8 hours.
So instead I'm watching birth videos. Cos that's always fun. Not least cos it reminds me that occiput anterior is the most common cephalic presentation. I seem to only get occiput posterior - where the baby's spine is against the woman's, so a lot more painful and generally longer labours. Particularly in first births there's a high instance of needing assistance in the form of vacuum or forceps with this presentation. This is why I have only three catches.
Hmm, might change my international baby trade tag to something else. Something that doesn't suggest I sell babies.
Random thought - I don't like the phrase "birth canal" and I don't know why. There's something too... mechanical or something about calling it a canal. Or implies barges and horses and tow-paths and I'm fairly certain I've never found any of them in there. Aha! That's it! It's bloody O'Driscoll again and his bloody talk of "passengers" and "passages." That book has scarred me. It's an incredibly simplistic read as well.
So instead I'm watching birth videos. Cos that's always fun. Not least cos it reminds me that occiput anterior is the most common cephalic presentation. I seem to only get occiput posterior - where the baby's spine is against the woman's, so a lot more painful and generally longer labours. Particularly in first births there's a high instance of needing assistance in the form of vacuum or forceps with this presentation. This is why I have only three catches.
Hmm, might change my international baby trade tag to something else. Something that doesn't suggest I sell babies.
Random thought - I don't like the phrase "birth canal" and I don't know why. There's something too... mechanical or something about calling it a canal. Or implies barges and horses and tow-paths and I'm fairly certain I've never found any of them in there. Aha! That's it! It's bloody O'Driscoll again and his bloody talk of "passengers" and "passages." That book has scarred me. It's an incredibly simplistic read as well.
