Critical Care Days 1 and 2

Yesterday and today were my first two days on my Critical Care rotation.  We have been slightly slow but the doctor who is in charge of us has been awesome.  She goes over the cases that are in the ICU and asks us questions about them.  We have also gone to the Clinical Skills Learning Center and learned how to make blood smears, put in IV catheters, how to use various fluid pumps, and practiced drawing blood from jugular veins and cephalic veins (on the front legs) on dog models.  So far, although there hasn't been a lot of hands on work with the animals, it has been really good thanks to the doctor spending a lot of time with us.