Category: School

A review series on various subjects/topics/lectures we've gone over in med school.

Salter-Harris Fractures

Review on Salter-Harris Fractures!

Type I: “Slipped

  • Separation through physis
  • X-rays often normal (may have lateral displacement of epiphysis)
  • Diagnosis clinical (point tenderness over growth plate)
  • Usually can be managed w/ closed reduction techniques
  • Doesn’t require perfect alignment + tends to remodel w/ growth

Type II: “Above”

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clearly, i have no life

I made this over the summer for my friend, since she was starting PA school and hadn’t taken anatomy before. It should be devoid of errors! (Hopefully, it’ll help someone out there?)

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tracheotomies

The wilderness medicine club did a trach lab for us a yesterday evening.

Lessons Learned:

  • Never travel alone. A group of at least 5 would be ideal. That way, if shit happens, you’ll have one person to be the runner (to get help if necessary), one person to stabilize the victim’s head/neck, one …

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review of systems

Advance Warning: This post is an epic mass of text. (For the record, most of my future posts labeled “School” will be epic walls of text unless it’s anatomy-related. If you’re completely uninterested anything to do with the medical field, for future reference, skip these. :O ) We had our “Review of Systems” lab yesterday, …

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apparently, numbers aren’t my thing

We had our anatomy practical on the GI system on Monday. I spent 4 hours out of my weekend tutoring my friends on it, so in theory, I should have done really well. For some unfathomable reason, however, I thought our practical was at 3:18 p.m. when in actuality, it was at 3 p.m., and …

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