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Date: 09 March 2006 08:59:19
It has arrived!! It's just like what doctors have with real live mercury inside! I wasn't too sure about which tubey bit hooked into the pump thing and which bit went on to the mercury bit... anyone know? On the cuff it says right arm over one tube and left arm over the other with arrows. But I don't know if the arrow is meant to point at the pumpy bit or the mercury bit.
Hopefully some family members will arrive home before I go to bed so I can practice on them. I think I'll have to have a blood pressure party!
Oooh and I've just received the go ahead from my boss to practice on people on Saturday. He said I'm not allowed to scare anyone. Surely no-one could mistake bloodthirsty enthusiasm for scariness!!
Oh yes, speaking of bloodthirsty we had our venepuncture and cannulation (putting in an IV line) session on Wednesday. We only did it on the fake arms to begin with however this provided much drama. See the fake arms have "blood" flow. And when you are at the start of a bag of blood (which flows by gravity), the venous pressure is a lot higher than it would normally be in a real live person. Also it is a lot harder to occlude the veins when switching the attachments on the cannula so you switch things you get a lot of red water spurting everywhere. This is fun because then you can pretend to be a doctor and yell things like "she's bleeding! Argh! Help!!!". Ah we had a good time. I wonder when we get to do things to real people? Although having seen how some of my class butchered their arms I would not be volunteering to be the first real patient...