ICU: The Shortest Day

This morning I came to work expecting to see two patients (my third patient, a gastric bleed, was supposed to have gone to the floors after getting transfused), but instead found my gastric bleed patient still in his room. He hadn't gotten his transfusion until last night b/c he had some sort of antibody in his blood that made it hard to narrow down his blood type, and by then there was no point in transferring him to the floor. Dr. O's orders: Get him out of here by this afternoon. I'd already written my transfer note so it was up to Eddy to call the medicine resident on call.

We finished rounding by 11:00 because Dr. O had to attend a meeting (thank goodness, otherwise rounds would have lasted forever), and I accompanied Loan to L&D so she could get an ultrasound to see how her baby was doing. The FP resident working the day shift, Tuere, brought the ultrasound machine to the lounge area, had Loan sit in the chief's chair, and proceeded to ultrasound Loan's abdomen. At first we thought we were looking at a boy b/c there was something between the legs, but looked too big to be a penis, so we got Melissa, who was my OB intern last year, and Dr. R (attending who loves to pimp) to take another look. Dr. R couldn't see any "boy parts" (the baby was 16 weeks old) and told Loan she was expecting a girl. =)

Garrett was on call today, and after noon conference he said I could probably go home since there was nothing going on at the moment, so I did. Hopefully he'll be able to do some procedures tonight.