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all right
hey guys wait i think it's too dark
let's
try this jesus all right hi
i've got a week on theaters this week so
i'm gonna be
in three different theaters seeing all
kinds of different operations
it's currently 10 30 p.m i've got my
alarm set for
five right now but that should be 5 30.
change that real quick
that would have been a disaster
all right there we go 5 30. i just did a
podcast episode that was really really
fun
went for a nice 10k run and i am pretty
much exhausted
i'm gonna pass out and i will catch you
guys tomorrow peace
secretary matt hancock has called the
cross party meeting for mps this morning
to update them about discovery the
conservative
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so
it's a strange feeling when you wake up
and you look outside at all your
surrounding buildings
and like not a single window has their
light on
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so since we change into scrubs when we
get to the hospital
i don't need to wear any formal clothes
on my way in like formal pants
shoes and a shirt which is honestly
great because it makes that commute into
the hospital so much more comfortable
oh my gosh it's freezing i thought we
were starting to get warmer
anyways i also realized that i didn't do
my intro because i was so tired this
morning so
what is up guys karma medic here and
welcome back to another
dose if you're new to the channel hi my
name is nasser and i'm a fourth year
medical student studying at king's
college london and the reason i've woken
up so early today
is because i have a week of theaters and
usually the anesthetist
starts prepping the patient at 7 30 in
the morning so i'm trying to get to the
hospital for 7 30 in the morning because
i can be present pre-op this is also the
time when the patient gets administered
lots of different drugs intravenous
access goes into the patient
and those are things that i can help
with that i can do and practice and so
it's good to be there early and i think
the surgeons aim to start their surgical
list at about 8 30 in the morning and
then depending on what i'm watching
which i actually don't know it'll last
for a couple of hours
to all day i actually have no idea what
i'm gonna go see
all right guys i'll catch you in a bit
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all right looks like i am the first
and only person here in fact i'm so
early the place where i normally get
scrubs from wasn't even open
i've recently started reading this book
um
by a doctor called david knott and it's
called war doctor
that's him they went out of their way to
make me food and to give me gifts and
presents when things went wrong it's
about an english trained
trauma surgeon who has spent a decent
amount of time
traveling to all kinds of war zones the
stories that he tells are just
mind-boggling incredibly inspiring
absolutely
crazy i mean honestly i don't remember
the last time i was listening to a book
and i felt
this hooked and this attached this drawn
in anyways
just gonna get changed now go to the
theater where i know i'm supposed to be
and try and find the anesthetist that
i'm attached to for the day and then
from there
i could go one of a hundred ways
all right that's it from me i'll see you
guys
in a bit peace so i'm in the right place
but the doctor that i'm shadowing isn't
going to be here for another half an
hour
so in the meantime i'm going to get my
blue scrubs which is what i need for
surgery and
these shoes for surgery i think they're
called clogs
to the person or person who has been
dming me
like every week for a year about my shoe
size there you go now that i'm changed
for a second time
time to go back to theaters and
awkwardly find my doctor
we are all done we're all done with the
first patient you guys might remember
this
viking yeah you might remember that from
my last vlog if you've seen it that was
really interesting i actually got to
hold the patient's airway open so do the
head
head tilt chin lift in order to maintain
the airway
as they were put onto the ventilator i
was also able to put in an eye gel which
is like an airway adjunct to keep the
airway open
wow my beard is so itchy anyways i'm
just gonna quickly grab something to eat
i think there's two or three more
patients on the list for today so yeah
i'm gonna eat something head back to
theaters
and continue on
all right long day
but it's over
hey guys hold on for the day
um it's about 4 35
now and usually i would just be
lined straight for the tube station get
home so i can move on with my day start
doing my to-do list et cetera et cetera
but i thought you know what
the weather's really nice i'm gonna grab
a coffee come watch the sunset over here
over the houses of parliament
and just soak in life a little bit you
know instead of just constantly running
around and being in a rush
i discussed this on my podcast yesterday
and uh it's something i'm trying to work
on
to slow down a little bit smell the
roses to be as cheesy as possible
sort of taking life a little bit more
slowly so today was quite interesting
i was um shadowing an anesthetist in
theaters or in surgery and
my job for the day was to maintain the
patient's airway
as they were being transitioned from
spontaneous ventilation so the patient
breathing for themselves
to getting put on a ventilator and
having the machine breathe and ventilate
for them
no no go ahead so anyways hopefully i've
explained that at least half well
why birds always making noises in my
vlogs hopefully i've explained that at
least half well i'm literally just gonna
sit over here for a little bit
soak up the sun enjoy this view and a
bit of relaxation
and then head home to continue on with
the day
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london is actually mad beautiful when
you get enough time to
you know soak it in and enjoy it really
appreciate these days
with sun nice views
all right had enough fun had enough time
chilling
time to head home
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hey there finally home
honestly so tired i did not sleep well
last night at all
if this car alarm goes off one more time
and yeah if you're gonna be on placement
in theaters or in surgery
don't go for a run the night before
because your legs and your back are not
gonna thank you for it
anyways finally home now and i just
wanted to say one thing
which is not well if you're already in
medical school then you probably know
this but if you're not
basically when you go to the hospital
and when you're on placement your day is
filled with
lots of nothing happening and then at
some point something interesting will
happen
or you'll be able to take part in a
procedure or you'll see something
interesting or
whatever but so much of the time is
spent kind of waiting around
doing sort of menial things that you've
done before blah blah blah and that's
what makes
uh clinical placement so challenging
because you kind of have to be there
all the time in order to increase your
chances of encountering those blips of
excitement and interesting things and
activities and learning opportunities
and whatever
anyways that's it i feel like i'm just
tiredly rambling into the camera
so i'm gonna go undress get comfortable
sit down on my computer and start
working through my
infinite to-do list on notion i'll pick
up the camera again either later tonight
tomorrow after tomorrow
all right okay bye peace
you know when you get into bed and you
set your alarm and you just look at it
and it's like
painful like i know it's going to be a
good day
it's going to be very useful but that 5
30
wake up is just brutal anyways i'm sure
you've had enough of this paranormal
activity remake
i'll see you guys in the morning last
two days
on clinical placement in the emergency
medicine and critical care block
it honestly feels like i started this
vlog just yesterday these eight weeks
have
absolutely flown by been in recess the
emergency department
icu a critical response team anesthetics
theaters and i'm probably forgetting
something but
it's been really really interesting if
not my favorite vlog my second favorite
vlog after neuro
and of course last year that was cut
short for me because of coronavirus in
classic london fashion it is drizzling
and so i've
got my hoodie on there's something like
peaceful
and serene about being out this early
you know before
i mean there's no sun in london anyway
but before the sun rises
uh before everybody starts moving and
hustling and bustling in the city but at
the same time i'm kind of just
tired i just want to be in bed at this
time like i don't know how people wake
up this early and go for a run
boggles my mind the thing is like i'm a
big fan of waking up early and waking up
at seven is like completely normal for
me but
waking up at 6 55 is like way too early
so i think once there's a six involved
and even worse once there's a five
involved in the time that i'm waking up
then i'm like nah this is too much
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all right today i'm in a different
hospital than the one i was out on
monday
this is fairly classic in medical school
clinical placements
you get sent to different hospitals
different wards with different doctors
and different things to do on different
days of the week so you always need to
be on top of your schedule so i'm
actually very close to
where i went to medical school for my
first three years of university next to
this building here
it's been real foggy the last couple of
days anyways i'm gonna head into the
hospital
let's change into scrubs find somewhere
to put my clothes meet my anesthetist
and i'll see you guys in a bit peace
all right a very lovely nurse has showed
me where everything is
and where i need to be which is
fantastic so i'm already
dressed and now time to go find my
anesthetist
this is the face of a medical student
who shows up to the theaters at 7 30 in
the morning
and is told that their consultant won't
be here until after 8. classic
at least i've got some coffee all right
all done for today i've come
to oro market in order to get some
lunch i've been walking around for a
while and honestly i'm not sure what to
get
i think i'm gonna have to circle around
a little bit more we saw two cases today
they were fairly interesting and they
were orthopedic cases this time so
different than what i was seeing on
monday but the same in the sense of what
i was doing from an anaesthetic's point
of view but i feel like i got to the
point where all of my learning was done
for the day
and my time might be better spent at
home preparing for my upcoming huskies
or written exams i've got some
very very good stuff first of all
these very cheeky sugar donuts and then
for actual lunch of pita wrap
yum so i've come to this really nice
chill spot by the water so i can sit
down and enjoy this food
and then i think i'm gonna head home
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so heading home now honestly i feel
quite sleep deprived so probably the
first thing i'm gonna do when i get
home let's take a nap all right so
i'm home obviously and this is the first
time this has
ever happened to me but after being in
theaters for the day
i'm like cold to the bone freezing
so i've jumped in the shower to warm up
a little bit and then i'm just gonna go
take a nap i'm so excited for continuing
on with the rest of the day
and before i sleep i thought i would
talk you guys through my philosophy
around
nuts what i feel like this entire vlog
has just been me in bed
anyways so when i nap i set one of three
timers on my phone
either six minute timer an 11 minute
timer or a 21 minute timer depending on
how sleepy i feel
the reason i set them for such short
periods of time is because i literally
just need that little
of falling asleep as soon as i doze off
then even if i wake up one minute later
i'm completely rested and good to go for
the rest of the day
i'm just gonna get into bed pass up
and i'll see you guys in a bit
all right homies posting up cooldown
sesh got myself the necessary coffee
and i think i'm just gonna go through a
whole bunch of emails that i have
i had zero emails this morning and now i
have nine plus 7 16 plus 117 emails
so i'm going to go through those when my
brain wakes up and then i'm going to do
one hour of pass paper questions and one
hour of osu practice
i'm gonna do that and that's probably
gonna be my day so i'll catch you guys
tomorrow for my final day
anyways gonna get settled into this and
i'll see you guys tomorrow
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peace
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so it's the end of the day now it's
almost midnight it is 11
52 and i realized that i actually didn't
tell you guys much about what happened
today
and what my experience was classic
fashion the consultant wasn't there when
they told us that they were gonna be
there
then eventually when they came they were
honestly really nice and did spend a
decent amount of time teaching me
and showing me uh how to use ultrasound
guidance to find the
different nerves in the brachial plexus
up here in the axilla
and then use local anesthetic so
lidocaine with adrenaline and
bupivacaine in order to do nerve blocks
on those nerves
identify the nerve and then block it and
then find the next nerve and then block
it and then find the next nerve and
block it anyways it's getting late and i
need to go to sleep
but i've learned my lesson from
yesterday i'm not gonna go in for 7 30
in the morning
instead i'm going to go in for 8 30 and
then hopefully by the time that i'm
there
i'll be arriving at the same time as the
surgeon or as the anaesthetist story
but i bet you because tomorrow i'm
deciding to go in a little bit later
that will be the day that the consultant
is there very early and then makes a
comment about me being late when i
actually arrive
who knows we'll see what happens i'll
let you guys know all right see you
tomorrow
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do you guys see this behind me sunshine
so i accidentally set my alarm for half
an hour later than i wanted to
and so i've woken up and just completely
rushed out of the house
i think from wake up to being out the
house it was half an hour which is like
the fastest like i've ever done in my
life so anyways
rushing over to my final placement and
i'm gonna be a bit late but
it do be like that sometimes
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in my absolute rush this morning i
forgot my headphones so
i'm about to get my ears destroyed
the noise
running a little bit late i'm gonna go
in and i'll catch you guys later
bye all right we made it new place new
changing rooms new scrubs new theaters
everything
great to fit all right seriously gotta
go let's go later
oh man i really miss being on campus
so many good times here being in a scrub
cap all day has split my hair
very awkwardly down the middle but it is
what it is going for my lunch break now
i've been with a very kind consultant
this morning very keen on teaching
very keen on getting me involved which
means i'm happy to be there
i'm finding it very useful i'm learning
a lot of things
and uh yeah all in all everybody's
winning i'll tell you guys a bit more
about it later
but i actually don't have long at all
now we have like half an hour to go get
some food and come back
when i saw that wasabi was open i
immediately went for it this used to be
my go-to
back when i used to come to campus all
the time for lectures dissections
tutorials
etc etc anyways gonna find someone to
sit down and eat this food
and catch up with you there
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for everyone curious this is what it
looks like
got the shard all the way up there and
then this is the quote-unquote beach
kings i'm just going to call alexia see
what she's up to eat this food
and then head back to theater all right
we made it back got some scrubs
gonna get changed from round two
something that they have here which i
haven't seen very often is
really nice it's just hooks
so we can hang up our stuff when we come
into theater
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all right guys so all done for the day
with the entire list
i think we saw five patients since the
morning i mean work-life balance of an
anesthetist is
excellent so it's currently 2 45 we're
all done for the day and we've seen all
the patients on the list for today's day
surgery
today in the theater i was on the breast
list and so we saw five
incisions of a lump in the breast all
one after another with
almost no time wasted in between as soon
as one patient was finished we took them
to recovery and then by the time we were
back in the anaesthetics room the
patient was waiting ready to come in
today was the first time that i did the
two-handed technique one hand
tilting the head back of the patient
placing the mask on and the other hand
bagging them and ventilating them
it's a really good experience honestly
and it always feels amazing when you
feel like you are helpful in some way
shape or form where you're doing
something with your hands
all right i am so happy to be home
and that's it that's the end of my
clinical placement for emergency
medicine and critical care
we've got one more week of just lectures
and if i'm honest i'm going to spend
most that time
preparing for oski's our objective
structured clinical exams so the
practical exams that we have in medical
school
all right guys that is it that brings us
to the third day of my three days in
theater
i've had a lot of fun i hope you guys
enjoyed watching this video if you did
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and i'll catch you guys in the next one
peace
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this is the blooper when i re-wake up
from my
fake sleep to turn off the camera
bye-bye