you grasp the cervix gently... muhahahaha. How you grasp with a single tooth tenaculum and *not* pierce the cervix, I dunno.
Just throw an alice (i think?) on where the bleeding is and it should stop after a few minutes. I may or may not have already done the same thing trying to put an IUD in :)
It does look gruesome from the "doctors end". The patients hardly ever know thuogh....they are more concerned that "OMG a medical student wanted to do an internal on me" than "someone was gripping my cervix and moving my uterus around with this toothed clamp thing". Meanwhile things are so cramped that the medical student is thinking "gosh I'm glad the registrar and the scrub nurse both showered this morning" and "if I lean 5 degrees more I will end up on the registrars lap".
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Don't worry. I've made a much worse and more difficult to make procedure error already.
How are you hanging in in general with the whole internship thing?
you grasp the cervix gently... muhahahaha. How you grasp with a single tooth tenaculum and *not* pierce the cervix, I dunno.
Just throw an alice (i think?) on where the bleeding is and it should stop after a few minutes. I may or may not have already done the same thing trying to put an IUD in :)
Eh, you know. No nerve endings on the cervix (supposedly). And like Jess said, it is a tool with *teeth.*
the only way to be ok with internship is take it one day at a time.
It does look gruesome from the "doctors end". The patients hardly ever know thuogh....they are more concerned that "OMG a medical student wanted to do an internal on me" than "someone was gripping my cervix and moving my uterus around with this toothed clamp thing". Meanwhile things are so cramped that the medical student is thinking "gosh I'm glad the registrar and the scrub nurse both showered this morning" and "if I lean 5 degrees more I will end up on the registrars lap".
omggggggggggggggggg.
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