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“The Night Shift” is a show about a team of doctors and nurses that work at San Antonio Memorial Hospital in San Antonio Texas. Each shift, they face countless patients with a variety of medical issues. For this blog post, I decided to comment on episode 2 of season 1, titled “Second Chances.” Within the first five minutes of the episode, the team receives their first patient. Jordan, who is the head doctor in charge of the night shift, gives a quick rundown of the patient’s injuries. She describes the patient as a, “40-year-old female with bilateral forearm fractures, open on the left.” During the lectures from chapter 1, we learned a little bit about the planes of the body and how to describe a location on a patient. We learned that you always describe where something is in relation to the patient, not you. So, in this example from the show, Jordan is explaining that the fractures on the patient are located on both sides (bilateral) of her left forearm. Later on in the episode, a patient suffered a gunshot wound to the heart. TC and Topher work to save the patient’s life and TC tells Topher that the patient has a, “GSW to the left ventricle,” and that he has his, “finger in the hole, but [he] needs [him] to cross-clamp the aorta.” The left ventricle and the aorta are both major parts that make up the heart and are key to its function. Throughout the remainder of the episode, the doctors and nurses use many terms referring to the anatomy and physiology of the patient, and I am able to recall what I have learned in class and understand some things they are explaining in the episode.
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