 It is officially Monday morning and as usual I'm on a new rotation today I am a bit tired from the weekend even though it was my first full weekend off essentially in like three weeks And you've seen on my last video how hard I was working the last three weeks and I mean I was Dying for a day off. Okay. That's a little Exaggerated but you know what I mean and also as you may remember from the last video I played golf yesterday. I played 18 holes with the boys, which was a ton of fun We had a blast. We got there super early though So I woke up at like 515 on my weekend off and played around the drop till like 2 p.m And then as usual once a bit late, so it's on me now But I had a lot of fun this weekend. It was a much-deserved Semi-relaxed and weekend now I have one week Until I have a full 10-day real vacation coming up but first I started a new rotation like I mentioned prior and I'll tell you what it is in a second. So as you probably know, but oh Remember my locker the lock is working fantastic now Well after I broke into my old one and put a new lock on it, but that's neither here nor there So as you know, we start a new rotation every single week and today I Will not be wearing lead all day long because I'm in the CT room All day and the rest of the week So the CT room is basically where we do all not basically it is where we do all of the CT guided procedures ranging anywhere from deep pelvic or abdominal biopsies to deep pelvic and abdominal drain placements or even lung biopsies or Pretty much anything you can get to with CT guidance We can do anywhere you can place a needle within any part of the body We can pretty much get to under CT guidance, which is kind of why I like it The other reason I like it so much is because I don't have to wear lead all day like I said prior. It's just I Don't know. It's when you wear lead all day long for all these procedures It starts to wear on you and it starts to take a toll on your back your paraspinal muscles your legs you're especially like your calves and interior tibialis musculature It's hard to explain if you wear lead, you know what I'm talking about But when you don't have to wear lead for the whole week So much nicer to just put on that surgical down Not put on lead before it. It's amazing. So I happen to love CT and when I'm on CT because I don't know it's more like bread and butter IR and when people think of IR they think of draining abscesses which Is only a fraction of what we do, but it probably may be the most common thing we do So far on the docket today, we just have one Yes, one pelvic biopsy, which I haven't even looked at the imaging yet But they're gonna look at the imaging now go check out the patient consent them for the procedure do all that Stuff that we do before every single procedure Then we'll probably get a ton of add-ons later on in the day because that's how it works on the weekends Nothing really gets done, especially in non-urgent abscess strangers or biopsies So I'll basically have to pick it up today and do all the stuff left over from the weekend and Obviously, I'll bring you along for the ride show you some cool stuff that we can drain and we can get to under CT guidance And I'll probably tell you every single procedure I do this entire week and probably describe in detail and also maybe educate you all about CT guided procedures and all that we can do under CT guidance This is our CT scanner where all of the magic happens and where all of our CT guided procedures happen We have our table over here, which I'll take a look at shortly. We have obviously the CT scanner right here Where the patient lays or lies and then we have the anesthesia machine if needed So our CT table is actually set up pretty similarly we have our gowns, which we wear obviously Laticane scalpel the usual setup here Kelly clamp needle driver scissors chloroprep sticks towels four by fours or draws a Few syringes if we need contrast for some reason saline some flips Tegaderm for the dressing at the end a Marker in a grid, which is very important because we put a grid on every patient And we do a pre scan and we mark it with the marker So we know where to make our initial incision or placement of our initial needle or biopsie needle then of course they're gloves and That's it okay, so I've officially done two procedures So far this morning. I did a What'd I do? Oh, I did a pelvic abscess drain, which was pretty straight forward just going anteriorly on the pelvis and Just guide a needle down under CT guidance put a wire in put a drain over the wire Good to go second one. I did was a pelvic mass biopsy. It went pretty smoothly. However, the patient Literally basically punched me because they weren't too much pain So I had to stop the procedure early got some good samples, but you know I wasn't gonna force someone into getting something against their will so we stopped it early third case I'm about to do after I had a little lunch here a little avocado Oops, where is it? a little avocado bacon turkey wrap and of course Seltzer and next I have a chest tube. I'm gonna place I don't know why they can't do it on the floor for some reason because the patient isn't critical Condition whatever so easy under CT guidance stick needle in put the drain in and hopefully that's it for the day Then another long day up at the CT Procedure area was in there all day. It is now almost 8 p.m. After getting here at 7 p.m. I only did three cases to a paddock tumor ablations under CT guidance and What else I do? Oh, I did a liver biopsy too So that officially concludes this week on CT and I'm trying to rush right now To meet up with under Anna because she took the bus all the way uptown to meet me halfway So that we could walk home together. Isn't she just sweet? But the real reason is we haven't seen each other in like five days because she's been in the Hamptons on a work retreat Now she's back. We did to see each other. I'll go see her right now We'll say goodbye in the blood here make sure you smash like subscribe button follow me on the screen If you know I'm ready for me on tiktok and I'll see you all on the next video