Live! From the MICU!

It's Wednesday night!

First day in the MICU, on-call not quite 1/2 way through the shift, and believe it or not I actually have a bit of down time right now...although as always, a busy night is only one code call away...

For now me & my star intern Zack have the MICU running smoothly. To be truthful, I should say that the MICU nurses have the MICU running smoothly, since they do the lion's share of the actual work on the patients. We were greeted with a 7am admission (hypotension, acute-on-chronic renal failure) and in the afternoon a transfer from the floor (pneumonia plus gastrointestinal bleed)--both of which are sick but thus far not completely tanking.