Awesomeness

I spent this morning doing anesthesia on a five month old puppy named Trapper. I was nervous, but even more excited to take all that information shoved into my head to good use. The little guy was neutered and for the day I was in charge of the following...

Pre-drug the animal and figure out the right calculations

Place a catheter

Set up IV fluids

Intubate (which is a little more tricky on an alive animal, just sayin')

Hook up to anesthesia

Monitor and write down stats every five minutes during the surgery

Once the surgery is over, I take away the gas

Wait for him to wake up

Extubate

and then watch and monitor his vitals while he starts to recover

That was a lot of things for me to do, but I got a good pat on the back from the Doctor and my instructor. I wasn't able to see the actual surgery this time because I was so focused on making sure Trapper was doing well. I mostly starred at this the entire time

But at least I got to give him some good attention after the surgery was over.


Isn't he adorable? It was so much fun, I'm looking forward to a lot more surgeries - but Trapper will always be my first!

Trapper is awesome

I am awesome

Today is freaking awesome.