Snow and NG Tubes

Wooeee 6 inches of snow overnight.
And to think it was 68 last friday....oh the games the weather plays on us.
Unfortunately unlike Seattle we have adequate snow cleaning equipment and not as many steep hills and a higher percentage of dry snow vs ice accumulation. So no snow day for the students at Pitt, and no avoiding the pop quiz in Pharmacology (however on my HOUR long commute this morning I did come up with some really great mnemonics for the drugs we had to memorize for the quiz )

After Pharm we had Skills Lab where we practiced putting in NG (nasogastric) tubes! Thank goodness we have willing manniquins to test on.

I recommend never getting sick enough to need one of these - eat your broccoli and blueberries!

Here is Smorey supervising Laura's NG tube insertion skillz

And just to make sure the manniquin was handling this ok, we asked Smorey to listen to his lung and heart sounds.


"Vesicular sounds in the left upper lobe of the lung, no wheeezes or crackles, even heartbeat, S2 louder than S1, no additional heart sounds appreciated!"

thanks Smorey!