Over the past few months I started to finally get a hang of the workflow of the hospital. I’ve gotten used to personally managing about 3 or 4 patients and hearing about another 10 or so more that my team handles. At first this seemed like a ton of patients to be able to keep […]
Really?
They sent my grandma home yesterday and here we are back in the hospital for round two… I was kind of confused when they let her go home and everything wasn’t normal. It really bothers me how as a medical student I know enough to be worried and to know something is not right but […]
Patient Education: Atrial Fibrillation
“Atrial fibrillation (AF) is a rapid, irregularly irregular atrial rhythm. Symptoms include palpitations and sometimes weakness, effort intolerance, dyspnea, and presyncope. Atrial thrombi often form, causing a significant risk of embolic stroke. Diagnosis is by ECG. Treatment involves rate control with drugs, prevention of thromboembolism with anticoagulation, and sometimes conversion to sinus rhythm by drugs […]
