I am slowly working my way back into surgery. My first big test was a very ill ten month old baby that needed major abdominal surgery for a piece of bowel that had become gangrenous. The operation was routine but twenty four hours later the baby was very poorly with a fast pulse rate and a very high temperature. I diagnosed that the baby had malaria which was treated and the next morning I went to the ward half expecting to see an empty bed, however I was greeted by a well baby happily drinking his mother’s milk. The mother smiled as she knew the baby was making good progress after the worry of the previous evening. This progress continued and we discharged the child a week later.
Recent posts
-
Great problems with waste
6 Jun 2012
Our primitive incinerator adding Read more →
-
Summary of our twelfth trip
10 May 2012
On the 2nd February we Read more →
-
Hornbills
10 Apr 2012
There are many different types Read more →
-
AN UNEXPECTED SURPRISE
25 Mar 2012
I went to the children’s Read more →
-
My First Week
17 Feb 2012
At the moment the surgical Read more →
-
Great problems with waste
Page Index
Tweet about mdsarson by using this hash tag #mdsarson