This morning I shadowed Claudio again. There wasn't much on the list; we saw some of his patients and he was officially done for the day. Afterwards, Claudio let us practice tracheal intubation on a dummy. The dummy was lifelike (besides the fact that it had no arms), so everything we did was at least somewhat close to reality. In teaching us this, Claudio also gave us a crash course in first aid and trauma response protocols. I had been CPR trained several times in the past, and what he told me was pretty similar to what I had learned.
In an intubation, I would have to insert a breathing tube into the patient's lungs, because they would not be able to breathe for themselves otherwise. I knew all about it, because they do it on every other episode of House. It was actually easier than I had thought it would be, but then again I wasn't under stress, with a patient's life on the line. I'm pretty sure it will be a lot tougher with the chaos of an emergency room and an actual patient.
After the hospital, Claudio took us out for lunch, after which we came back to the Residencia and had our meeting with Sarah for the academic discussion. Not too much going on today.
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