Week ending Sep 30

Getting pretty fast at these carotid exams, when there is pathology it really slows you down.  You have to "walk" the sample gate through the entire area of stenosis and identify the area of highest velocity.  Man these plaques can sure appear differently.

Week ending Sep 23

Saw a nice big mass on a uterus this week at the hospital.  The left ovary was also pretty ugly.  Poor lady.  Looked similar to this one. Slightly bigger though.y was

Week ending Sep 16

At my vascular site 2 days a week now and 1 day at the regular hospital. It is a nice change of pace even though it is much higher paced at the vascular site.  I am learning to do ABI's, TBI's, PPG for the toes if the ABI is greater than 250cm/s, Vein Mappings, lots of Carotid Dopplers. I guess that they do Arterial legs, haven't seen those yet and Aorta studies as well as Renal Artery Dopplers.

Week ending Sep 9

This week I am lucky enough to start a rotation at a vascular site.  It coincides perfectly with the start of our vascular class.  Very high paced.  Never worked inside of a doctors type of an office/building before.

Week ending sep 2

short week this one, only one day.  took me the morning to get back into the swing of things after a nice break.  nothing fancy.