 So it is bright and early. I'm here at work and so I just wanted to give you guys like a really quick day in the life. Obviously I just got changed. I just got in here. So I'm gonna go down to my morning report, see what the patients that have been here for a while are waiting on to kind of like mobilize them out of the hospital and then kind of get used to also seeing like, hey, like what the patients that came in overnight, like what they're doing as well. So let's go for a day in the life of a trauma PA. I am back from doing my morning rounds. I am going to be getting on the computer and just kind of writing notes and making sure that I'm able to get the patients out that need to get out of the hospital, get them mobilized and discharged. That's really always our main goal, especially during COVID times is to make sure that we're able to mobilize patients out of the hospital so that we're not leaving them susceptible to further like, you know, infections and things like that because the longer you stay in the hospital, you know, the more susceptible you are to hospital-acquired infections. So we wanna make sure that they're able to walk, see physical therapy and mobilize on out of the hospital. So that is what I'm gonna be doing. I'm gonna be waiting obviously for any traumas to be called and see what happens. I already have had a couple called today and so I think it's gonna be one of those days, but hopefully not. I'll keep you guys posted. All right, so it's crazy because I actually have like a little bit of free time, which I never have. So I'm gonna just really kind of just relax and see if I can maybe get something to eat and try to ensure that I'm well hydrated because when you're on call, especially for 24 hours and you're like dealing with traumas, you never know what's gonna happen. You never know what's gonna come in. And so for me, I just wanna always make sure and ensure that I'm able to actually have like some food and sustenance in my stomach so that I'm adequate and like appropriate when I'm downstairs and I'm thinking about food or I'm not passing out in the OR if I have to go down to the operating room. So that's what I'm gonna eat. All right, so it is nighttime. We are winding down. I'm waiting for traumas to be called. I finished all of my notes for the day. So typically we will round on patients and then write notes on them and then just do any floor things that need to be done. So like change dressings and discharge them if they need to be discharged, pull chest tubes, place chest tubes, all of those various different things. And so all of that busy work is done. Guess not, because I just heard that there was a trauma called a trauma level two. So it looks like I'm not gonna be getting any sleep. So yeah, I'm about to go run downstairs to see what this trauma is. And we'll see, I will get back to you guys and let you know how things went. Hopefully it's nothing too serious, something that we can easily like manage. A lot of our traumas, some of the, well, most of our traumas are pretty serious, but there it is. All right, okay. So we'll see, it's a motor vehicle accident. So I'll see you guys later. All right, so I'm officially back. I had to do a lot of suturing. So I just did that. And now I'm gonna really try to see if I can get some sleep. We are not gonna go on standby or fly by as you can say, is what it's called. Really where we don't get any traumas because we're going on to the OR. And although tonight we are going on to the OR, we're not gonna be on fly by because we also have like two attendings on. So I have to try and see if I can get any rest that I possibly can. So that's what I'm gonna do. I'll talk to you guys in the morning when I wake up hopefully from a long nap about exactly what I did today in terms of like things that I may have seen or things that I may have done. All right. So it is morning time. I am about to go home. I'm really excited. I will talk to you guys like a little bit later on exactly every single thing that I did. Well, not every single thing, but the majority of the things that I did once I get home. All right, you guys. Okay, so I'm back home. Really happy to be home actually because it was an extremely long night. So had a lot of traumas called, did not really get any rest. Like literally when I said, okay, I'm gonna try to go get some sleep. I may have put my head to the pillow for about like five to 10 minutes and then another trauma was called. So the difference between like our level twos because I know I stated it was a level two trauma is just essentially the intensity of the trauma. And I mean, there's an algorithm that we base this all on in terms of how we call it, but a lot of our times our motor vehicle accidents just for all intents and purposes are typically level two traumas. They will be escalated to a level one trauma depending on if a patient has like low blood pressure or maybe they're unresponsive. Maybe they have like a serious head injury like that is noticeable. Maybe in the field there had to be like a pelvic binder placed on that patient. And so we're concerned that they're losing blood, that kind of stuff. So that is typically how it's run. Our level one traumas are usually like gunshot wounds and stabbings depending on exactly where they are. Obviously, like some, you know, like a stabbing to the leg might not necessarily be a level one trauma, but depending on how many stab wounds, where the location is, we'll call most GSWs and stabbings a level one. So had a couple level one traumas called overnight, mainly level two traumas. So we didn't really get that much rest, but I was able to go to the OR, was able to see a lot. Like it's always amazing, like when we have to open up someone's like abdominal cavity and you get to see like the bowels moving and you know how the body works and how things are moving in the body. Like it's crazy you guys that always amazes me because it's like, man, like this is, this is wild. So got to see some of that, was grateful for that. Got to learn a lot in the OR actually, had a really great attending with me. He always teaches and so I really like that because you know, I'm still green, I'm still new and so I'm still trying to learn as much as I can and I'm obviously gonna continue to wanna learn as much as I can, but that was essentially my night. I'll try to take you guys along on some other like day in the life of a trauma PA. Obviously I can't take you all to the trauma bay with me as I'm working these traumas up because of HIPAA. You know, you have to protect people's information, their private information like name and date of birth and all of that stuff, who they are, their faces. So I can't take you to the trauma bay with me, but I will definitely try to like talk about like some of the other things, maybe show you some of the actual like suture kits and things like that that we use when we do have to suture up somebody that may have been stabbed or been in a motor vehicle accident that now has like lacerations all over their body. So I'll see what I can do you guys, but definitely we'll try and do more of these for you. Hope you guys like this day in the life of a trauma PA. I do have videos every Sunday and Tuesday, so be sure to subscribe and follow me on it on the PA and come back this upcoming Sunday for the next video. Thank you guys so much for watching. I will talk to you guys next time. Bye.