Rotation: Day 1

Today was my first day at the hospital on my RPM rotation. That's Resuscitative and Perioperative Medicine, or in short, anesthesia. I arrived at the hospital nice and early this morning and followed the regular employees into the building. I had no idea where I was going. I eventually found my way to the Anesthesia Department and was told where to change into scrubs. I met up with my other 2 junior medical students and hung out in the anesthesia resident's work room. I was then assigned to a resident who was doing two MAC cases (Monitored Anesthesia Care). Basically this means that we were not going to put our patient to sleep, but rather give them enough pain killers to not notice the invasive procedure they were going to undergo but still be responsive and able to respond to commands. We had no complications today and I learned a lot about anesthesia. Tomorrow I am planning on being in some general anesthesia cases.