Post created by Britney
“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 3 of season 1, titled “Hog Wild.” The episode gets its name from a situation one of the patients endures where a hog bites off their hand while they were hunting. One of the first A&P terms I noticed in the episode was when a patient came into the ER with a possible depressed orbital fracture. I recognized the area this fracture occurred because we just finished learning about bones, and I know that the orbital area is by the eyes as well as a fracture means that this patient partially or completely broke their bone. Another A&P term I recognized from the episode was when one of the doctors, Drew, self-diagnoses himself with a hairline metacarpal fracture. Relating back to what the previous patient suffered, Drew also thinks he has suffered a fracture, but in a different area. I know from lecture and lab that the metacarpals are in the hand, in between the carpals and the phalanges. I recognized another A&P term that we haven’t yet gone over in class, and that was the pulmonary hilum. I know based on previous knowledge that the hilum is a portion of the lung. A key part to this episode was performing a crike procedure on a patient. Krista, one of the doctors, was given the instructions to: extend the neck and palpate for the laryngeal prominence, make a vertical incision, make a horizontal incision along the cricoid membrane, lift and stabilize the larynx, and finally insert the tube. A&P terms such as the laryngeal prominence, cricoid membrane, and larynx are used in this description. Throughout the remainder of the episode, the doctors and nurses use many terms referring to the anatomy and physiology of their patients, and I am able to recall what I have learned in class and understand some things they are explaining in the episode.