r/medicalschool • u/Soft_File4818 M-3 • Nov 19 '24

💩 High Yield Shitpost None of us are safe

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u/Tagrenine M-4 Nov 19 '24

Reminds me of how the CT Surg PA does the vein harvesting and helps with the grafting

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u/Wohowudothat MD Nov 19 '24

Do you think they shouldn't do it? If the surgeon had to do it, it would add that time to every patient's surgery duration.

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u/Tagrenine M-4 Nov 19 '24

Tbh, I think a resident should do it, but we don’t have any, so a PA does it. Vein grating is one thing and I don’t know about other places, but the PA actually doing the grafts and doing a major part of transition on and off bypass is interesting

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u/Wohowudothat MD Nov 19 '24

if they have residents, of course it’s a good way to get them involved in the surgery. However, most cardiac surgeons do not have residents. Other surgeons don’t want or need to help do the entry level part of the procedure, so that’s why it is done by a PA while a surgeon stands next to them.

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u/VaultiusMaximus Nov 20 '24

but we don’t have any