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The MS paint smile of the patient is concerning
Diagram explaining the use of a Magic Wand™
The smiling bugs me, but a frown face wouldn’t be better so I guess it’s for the best
😬
Insufflator
Really weird way to say “coke straw” but you do you.
They aren’t setting themselves up for success. Every nurse knows you gotta put the harmonic scalpel on top of the cautery. You need dat space
Where’s the bit that goes brrrzzzz when you hit the sides when taking the bone out?
If we took the bones out it wouldn’t be crunchy, would it?
Sometimes people tell me I’m an insufflator. At least that’s what I think they’re saying
Maybe I have a dirty mind, but it seems like the scope is going inside the patient in an unpleasant manner.
I mean you’re not wrong, but you’re probably also not right.
It probably would be quite unpleasant, hence the anesthesiologist.
A laproscopy is when an incision is made, usually near the navel, in the abdomen, and then a … basically mechanical camera snake… is inserted into the abdomen, to get a look at usually the organs in/near your pelvis.
Segmentecomy means they are also removing some kind of… growth on, or portion of, some organ.
I think lateral means the actual cut is being made on one or the other side of the patient, their right or left kidney, but it may also refer to the general orientation of the cut itself.
Not a surgeon, not sure.
So yeah, its a snake camera getting inserted into a cut in your abdomen so a surgeon can better see their hands, with a scalpel, taking a tumor or cyst off of your liver or something like that.
Not exactly what I’d call a pleasant insertion.
… Also you should try anal.
Ah, I’m on a phone, I missed the text at the bottom
… Did you also miss the text at the bottom of my comment?
The anal remark? I didn’t. I was imagining that even if the probe was in the patient’s anus that it would still be at a really uncomfortable angle.
Considering that the surgeon had to rip them a new one to stick that in, yeah, I’d say so.
The patient doesn’t seem to find it so unpleasant. 😏
That’s a decent sized frog there!
